So I’ve been railing for YEARS that ebook formatting is not hard. I’ve been doing it myself since I started self publishing in 2010 and I FINALLY got around to putting together a class to teach the rest of you. It is available through WANA International. Ebook Formatting from A to Z is an […]
Self-publishing
Get Back To Work!
I woke up this morning to a post by my pal Andrew Mocete that really resonated with me. Write More, Market Less: The Proof. It was, quite obviously, about how we should write more and market less. He linked back to this article about self-publishing statistics, which I found quite interesting. I was curious to […]
The State Of Indie Publishing
So there’ve been big doings in the indie publishing world in the last week. Barry Eisler turned down a half million dollar deal with legacy publishers, choosing to self-publish instead. Another traditionalist defects. And the indie world cheered. Amanda Hocking accepted a $2 million deal with legacy publishers for a four book series. And the […]
Pondering The Freebie
One of the often lamented aspects of self publishing is that despite the myriad of awesome opportunities we have to publish digitally through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others, we do not have the opportunity to give stuff away for free like the publishing companies do. Or do we? Certainly we can’t list work for […]
Borders…Rethink your Stance in How You Deal With Self Publishers
So Borders filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Anybody surprised? Anybody? No? Only Borders themselves? It’s been a long time coming. I knew it was gonna happen as soon as they announced their Bookbrewer program, which I commented on here. Really bad business decision on their part. Let’s assume that all self publishers are STUPID and […]
Don’t Judge Self-Publishing By Smashwords
Okay, I want to say straight off that this is not a criticism of Smashwords or Mark Coker. They provide a wonderful service to those of us who choose to self publish, allowing us to get into vendors we otherwise would not have a shot at, and not charging us anything out the door and […]