Interviews

<—That’s me, the editor of Self-Publishing Review.

Self-promotion time.  I don’t do a huge amount of self-promoting about my own book here, but here goes.  Case in point, didn’t mention that my novel, The American Book of the Dead, recently won the Gold IPPY award for Visionary Fiction.  It also won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival.

Today there’s an interview up by Todd Keisling.  I talk about the roots of the novel and self-publishing.  On self-publishing, a snippet:

TK: How about self-publishing? What got you started there?

HB: My first novel was released by Soft

I got turned onto Eddie Wright via a tweet by blogger Mike Cane, who suggested that the two of us together would be explosive. Naturally, with a teaser like that I had to check out Eddie’s novel.

Broken Bulbs is either about a junkie trying to write a screenplay or a writer who thinks he needs to fix in order to create. Either way, it’s a compelling meditation about the intersection of art and addiction and the way that both are essentially born of our need to feel like our life has meaning. Narratively, the book plays out like a […]

An interview with Vicki Hopkins, author of The Price of Innocence.  See how you can fill out this interview here.

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

My first self-publishing experience was in May of 2009, when I published a popular blog – Lessons From the Phantom of the Opera.  My readers begged for it in book form, so I thought the self-publishing route was my best choice for the type of non-fiction reference.

The Price of Innocence, my first novel, is also self-published.  Before release, I did not submit […]

An interview with Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward, the forthcoming The Summer Son, and the newest member of the Backword Books collective. Reminder: writers have the opportunity to fill out this interview as well. Details here.

Self-Publishing Review: How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

Craig Lancaster: For me, the decision to form my own small literary press and shepherd my own projects (and others’ projects — I hope to have some exciting news about that soon) represents a full circle. I originally self-published my first book, “600 […]

Although we self-pubs have all heard by now that traditional publishers are doing less promotion for their authors than they used to, compared to where we’re sitting, they still have it pretty good. They have a Real Publisher backing their work. They actually have a shot at being taken seriously before anyone even reads their book, and at being reviewed by the New York Times. Because we don’t have any of that, if we want people to know about our books, we’re going to have to do our own promotion and marketing.

No one seems to know more about […]

This interview with Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward, was originally posted on the blog of Jim Thomsen – “An Aspiring Author’s Journey to the Promised Land of Publication … Where Nothing is Promised.”

Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be sequestered in his small house in a small city, where he keeps his distance from the outside world and the parents from whom he is largely estranged. For the most part, Edward sticks to things he can count on…and things he can count. But over