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Traditional publishing professionals think they can jump on the indie bandwagon and make a mint from applying the same techniques they learned in that industry to self-published authors. This is the big error. The world of publishing and assisted publishing are two different beasts entirely.

And here’s why:

1.  In assisted publishing, the author is the client. 

This is confounding to many new services because in trad (traditional) publishing, the publisher holds the puppet strings. New services who don’t take the time to spell out deals and what the author will get on their service descriptions and websites feel like […]

How Am I Supposed To Write With All This Going On?

This isn’t just October Surprise, this is something so depressing that I feel unable to write. How do we get to writing with all this sadness and violence going on? Here’s what I’m doing.

1. Turn off the TV. And the internet.

It’s the constant stream of gloomy, negative news into a household that will be getting in your head, even if you aren’t really listening to it. If you’re going to write, get away from the TV and listen to music instead. Here’s an app that stops […]

Writing a memoir is a great way of recording your life journey, and many authors want to share their story. But this week in Washington, one author must be regretting he ever published his.

After hearing tearful women recounting their sexual abuse stories in the corridor, Senator Flake went back into the bipartisan meeting today and asked incredibly awkwardly for the floor vote on confirming Brett Kavanaugh to The Supreme Court to be held for a week while the FBI investigates claims and information given. And this may lead to one book in particular being hastily read across Washington.[…]