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Mar.11.2013
by Mick Rooney
Independent Publishing magazine
I’ve been busy this week working on a video presentation for my consulting services provided through TIPM Media. I was working on a dialogue piece for insertion into the video about the shifting sands in self-publishing and where the...
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Mar.04.2013
Showcasing your work on blogs, podcasts or social media is fine, just don't see it as a shortcut to finding an audience
"Piracy is yesterday's worry for today's 'artisan authors'", wrote Damien G Walter in his piece about file sharing and piracy, in which he covered interesting ground, sparked...
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Feb.25.2013
by JOHN BARBER
The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Dec. 27 2012, 12:00 AM EST Last updated Saturday, Dec. 29 2012, 10:35 AM EST
This article is part of Next, The Globe's five-day series examining the people, places, things and ideas that will shape 2013.
Given the pressure to reduce costs,...
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Feb.18.2013
by Frederick Forsyth
"A scene in Istanbul? Research it until a local can't find any faults in your work."
When Eric Ambler and Geoffrey Household were writing their thrillers 70 years ago, or John Buchan 30 years before that, they had a great advantage of which they were probably...
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Feb.11.2013
December 17, 2012|By Diane C. Lade, Sun Sentinel, By Diane C. Lade, Sun Sentinel
Getting older seems to bring out the author in people. And South Florida seniors are discovering the booming self-publishing industry is their path to every author's deepest desire: a book.
Plus thanks to...
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Feb.04.2013
Authors can now buy themselves rave reviews. Now that's lazy -- and counter to the true indie spirit
By Erin Keane
There was much pearl clutching after the Internet aired abecedarian mystery novelist Sue (“A Is for Alibi”) Grafton’s thoughts on self-publishing. Short version: She...
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Jan.28.2013
Bernard Starr Psychologist/journalist/college professor
Self-publishing continues its exponential growth. More and more authors are choosing this route for presenting their work to the public, encouraged by impressive success stories, including accounts by bestselling writers who...
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Jan.21.2013
They used to call it the "vanity press," and the phrase itself spoke volumes. Self-published authors were considered not good enough to get a real publishing contract. They had to pay to see their book in print. But with the advent of e-books, self-publishing has exploded, and a handful of...
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Jan.14.2013
Nick Morgan, Contributor
Here’s the problem with self-publishing: no one cares about your book. That’s it in a nutshell. There are somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books published every year in the US alone, depending on which stats you believe. Many of those – perhaps as many as half or...
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Jan.06.2013
by John Robert Marlow
Novelist, Screenwriter
Whether gathered around a campfire, painting on cave walls, writing words on dead trees or computer screens--it's in our blood. Books and other storytelling formats can be noble undertakings, capable of reaching hundreds of thousands, sometimes...
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