Apologies to people who have no interest in publishing except reading books, but obviously I am part of the industry. I’ve thought about writing a blog post on the topic, but it is so complicated and contentious these days… I haven’t. However, author Michael J. Sullivan just cut through a Read more…
Samantha Warren over at Mariyta’s Musings introduced me to a fun challenge. The challenge is to read 24 indie authors this year, each with a last name that starts with a different letter of the alphabet. (The challenge allows you to skip any two letters of the alphbet) Novels read Read more…
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say on this subject. I am about as far from an expert as you can get, but they are tremendously important. You have probably at most a few seconds to tempt someone on Amazon, Smashwords or B&N to take a closer look. Read more…
I’ll try not to whine here, but getting reviews–or rather not getting them–is killing me. I don’t quite know what I’m doing wrong. What have I done? Well, I emailed every blogger I could find who reviewed indie-published fantasy with a request to do a review. About 10 of them Read more…
Today I have my first Guest Post, and it’s from my friend from the Kindleboards, Jennifer Hudock, author of The Goblin Market. I’ll let Jennifer tell her own story and pop in for comments at the end. Here’s Jennifer: The Control FreakBy Jennifer Hudock Although the pill is generic but Read more…
There is considerable buzz about Joe Konrath’s recent post in which he told the bare truth about what the Big 6 are doing to traditionally published authors on royalties. After repeating a recent conversation with a NYT selling author he commented on the royalties: The 25% the publisher is offering Read more…
As a lot of people have pointed out, in the last two years an entire new world has evolved in publishing: Self-publishing authors on Kindle and Nook. So I’m going to take that as a given for the moment. I’m not going to discuss whether it’s good or bad. What Read more…
I write in more than one genre. My historical novels are the ones my agent had been pitching until I parted ways with him recently. I intend to write several more, although they have been postponed while I polish the fantasies we have completed. I have always thought that it Read more…
Well, so much for my last year’s resolution to do better. I’m going to try that again. I’ve gone through a lot of changes since that last blog post. My agent tried and failed to sell a couple of novels. I wrote one and a half novels. My co-authored novel, Read more…