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Apr.23.2012
I couldn’t post last week’s article without having to comment about it. http://www.sleepers-run.com/2012/04/digital-self-publishing-might-be-bubble.html As far as the fact that there’s a whole industry built around the desire of many people to publish the work, I have to agree. Just like a...
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Apr.16.2012
by Nathan Ihara
Looks pretty easy! (From Smashwords "secrets to eBook
publishing success")
“81% of Americans feel they have a book in them … And should write it,” wrote Joseph Epstein in a New York Times Op-Ed in 2002, citing a survey by the Jenkins Group. Yesterday at The Guardian ...
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Apr.09.2012
(CNN) -- E-books aren't just becoming increasingly popular. They also appear to be promoting reading habits among American adults.
So says new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which states that about one-fifth of U.S. adults have read an e-book in the past year.
And if you...
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Apr.02.2012
By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | January 27, 2012 |
The latest sham doesn’t exactly pay customers to write up positive online reviews of products. But it’s more than a little sketchy when a company offers to reimburse people for their purchases if they post a review on Amazon.
We’ve...
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Mar.26.2012
A week ago I received an email rejecting my query from an agent regarding "Sleeper's Run." I know what you're thinking, "Agent? But you ARE a self-published author!" Well, you're probably not thinking that, but anyway. This message was a reply to an email I'd sent fourteen months ago. That's...
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Mar.19.2012
Physical books are priced according to a different scheme to electronic titles
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Mar.12.2012
There is a second issue—although less prevalent—that pops up in a few reviews about Sleeper’s Run. The issue is violence; gore specifically. I’m a martial artist; I’ve had training with knives and guns as well. The more I know about these things, the less I want to get in trouble or be in a...
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Mar.06.2012
The folks at Feathered Quill Book Reviews http://www.featheredquill.com/ will critique your novel and have it spotlighted in their main page or featured with links to your sites for about two weeks or more. They will also publish an interview with you. Prices and descriptions of these...
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Feb.27.2012
I write for adults. I always have. Don’t get me wrong, I like children’s books. I got a kick out of Treasure Island, enjoyed The Hobbit (yes, it’s a children’s book; get over it), attended my seven years at Hogwarts, and love Carlos Ruiz-Zafón’s early novels. I’d even like to take a stab at the...
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Feb.20.2012
I found this article by Tanya Hall quite interesting and decided it was worth sharing. You can find the original article at: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Truth-Behind-Bestseller-Books-and-The-Syst... To learn more about its author, please visit: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tanya_Hall I...
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Feb.13.2012
BookRooster.com is an interesting service. You send them a MOBI (format for Kindle) file and they put a call on a community of over 3,000 readers to find ten reviewers to post a critique on amazon.com for $67 per book. Like many of these services, you get an unbiased review...
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Jan.30.2012
As I navigate the world of publishing (self-publishing in my case), I keep learning more about it. However, the more I understand it, the less it makes sense to me. Let me explain myself. Say an established house published your book. You are a freshman author and lets say–for argument’s sake–...
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Jan.23.2012
There is a delicate balance between research and what ends up in the page. I want to be as realistic and accurate as possible, without interrupting the plot or turning the book into some poor excuse for a manual. When I did the practical research for my novel, one of the things I was looking...
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Jan.16.2012
For an author, bad reviews are just part of the job. Nobody likes them, but no one can escape them either. The first time I got a bad review, I felt as if someone had punched me in the stomach. No, scratch that, it felt worst. There was a sense of emptiness inside I couldn’t explain. This...
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Jan.09.2012
A book annalist once told me that he didn’t care for Eric’s "excessive and casual violence.” Kindly enough, this gentleman proceeded to help me by suggesting that I read one or two books from a popular author with a character he felt was similar to mine. The good news was...
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The dream is just one of many recurrent ones. No one who experiences combat goes through it unscathed. But this nightmare’s sudden twist in the end–with the man appearing–was a whole other ballgame. There was a lingering feeling that he was somehow familiar to me.”
—Sleeper's Run
About Henry
Henry Mosquera is a writer and artist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the University of Miami, Florida, where he obtained a double major in Graphic Design and Film. He enjoys researching his novels, including gaining first-hand knowledge of...
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Henry’s Favorite Books
Shogun, The Day of the Jackal, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, anything by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Ruiz-Safón...