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Oct.24.2012
Ah, life as an independent writer and publisher.
This year I released three different titles; one was a new work, my western The Last Hunt. The others were compilations of poetry and prose that go back more than twenty-five years.
I'm not expecting any of the trio to garner monster sales...
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Sep.28.2012
I've been a professional author for over 25 years.
In all that time, I have encountered perhaps four or five genuinely intelligent, well-adjusted, trustworthy, decent editors. Four or five. In more than a quarter century of putting words on paper.
The others?
Stupid. Vain. Dishonest....
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Jul.04.2012
The T-Rex seems to be facing off against the Amazon raptors. We have the commercially published dinosaur authors coming to the defense of the Big Six way of publishing and pricing as evidenced by the recent article featuring Jodi Picoult, who claims, in so many words, that self-e-publishing is...
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Apr.09.2012
I just read a blog post about a writer who is answering the question, Why do you want to be published by a traditional publisher? Right off the bat, the writer said, "Validation." She would feel validated because a bunch of supposedly widely read people chose her book to publish. I guess there's no...
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Apr.08.2012
What with the Los Angeles Review willing to chip in an opinion on select self-pub books, writers have now turned a corner. There is a plethora of ways to gain editorial comments, obtain publication, and some strategic publicity for such books. Of course, you have to pay your own way to...
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Mar.02.2012
All over the place I see articles predicting doom and gloom for the traditional publishing companies.
The publishing revolution will bring about the end of the big seven publishers.
Soon, nobody will be using publishers -they'll just do it themselves.
Indie publishing will...
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Jan.16.2012
Joe Konrath made $100,00 in three weeks selling his self-published books on Kindle.
He explains this phenomenal achievement in an article called "Reality Check," where one sentence stands out like the warning beacon on a highway patrol car.
"In the long run, except in the case of...
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Jan.09.2012
An eye-opening eBook I just finished is How a Book Is Born by Keith Gessen with an introduction by Graydon Carter. It first appeared in shorter form in Vanity Fair magazine and shows how the novel The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach came to be written, agented, sold, published, and turned...
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Dec.14.2011
Traditional publishers are being forced pay closer attention to the gathering swarms of Kindles, iDevices, and Androids. These days fewer patrician publishers park their paunches atop the slush piles of the rejected and the ignored, the four martini lunch has been sucker-punched by Google search...
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Dec.13.2011
Yes - of course - for the one (1) who manages there are thousands (1000s) who do not. But might not the odds be the same for those attempting the established publisher route? I still would prefer a traditional publisher to tend to my needs (it worked very well in the past), but I do have these...
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