Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm
His new novel, This Unhappy Planet, is a satirical dramedy about two guys who hatch a scheme to open a chain of spiritual fitness clubs, hoping to get rich quick off of bored yoga moms and affluent New Age seekers. Its brilliance is in Marc’s ability to lampoon both the main characters’ cynicism as well […]
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
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 […]
1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published
traditionally?
I did try to find an agent. I believe I sent query letters to about 10 seeking representation before decided to self-publish. Once I found iUniverse, I thought it would suit me better than traditional publishing. I write because I love to write. I was worried it would become more like work than my passion.
2. What self-publishing service did you use? Happy with the service?
I used iUniverse […]
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 […]
Zombocalypse Now is like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books. And when I say “like,” I mean exactly like. It consists of two-page chapters and at end of each chapter it says: if you’d like to do X, go to page X, if you’d like to do Y, go to page Y. Chance happens that I’d been rereading my old CYOA books with my daughter (they age well), so I have a sense of how these things read. With the old CYOA books they can be hit or miss. The main problem is that the choices either aren’t all […]