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Favorite Thing Ever

Here’s a good idea. Matt Youngmark, author of Zombocalypse Now (and interviewed here), has started up a new group blog called Favorite Thing Ever. The description:

You have a limited amount of time, so why spend it reading about things that suck or are only kind of okay? Favorite thing EVER is not a review site. We’re unrepentant fans, and this is the stuff we love. Hope you like gushing, because we’re about to embarrass ourselves.

Why is this a good idea? Because group blogging may make a lot more sense than a solitary blog. I mean, you […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:05:49+02:00October 12th, 2010|Categories: Member Blog|

An Introduction to Elita F. Daniels

An introduction to Elita F. Daniels, author of Tree of Life (Part I).

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

Given the industry lead-times on getting a publisher and the fact that most won’t accept manuscripts unless via an agent along with the fact that we had our own inhouse technical experience when dealing with book media we decided to head along the path of self-publishing rather than sitting around and being subjected to the whims of the big-six.

2. What self-publishing service did you use? Happy with the service?

Lightning […]

Paul Daniels2011-10-08T17:06:05+02:00October 12th, 2010|Categories: Interviews, Member Blog|

Getting A Book Published—The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself Before You Make Publishing Decisions

The Dilemma

As a writer, you are confronted with a dizzying array of publishing and self-publishing alternatives, including: commercial houses; specialty/independent houses; print-on-demand (POD) companies; and e-book companies. Many firms offer a mind-boggling variety of packages for pre-publishing, marketing, and distribution, with prices from almost free to $11,000+. Your royalties will depend on the price of your book minus the preparation, publishing, distribution, and other fees. The number of options is enough to make your head spin. How do you make sense of it all?

As a writing coach at AuthorAssist, I often get this question from perplexed writers. […]

Patricia Benesh2011-10-08T17:06:24+02:00October 12th, 2010|Categories: Member Blog, Resources|

The Podpeople Invite You to the Goodreads Indie Page 99 Group

Ford Madox Ford said, “Open a book to page ninety-nine, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”

As many of you know, we are all about the Indie book community, not in a fluffy bunny sort of way, but in an honest advocacy sort of way, and we are always looking for new reviewers and new content. We have recently started up our My Story column again, and we have also begun a new promotional column which follows the theme of the Page99 Book Test in light of the startup of Page99Test.com

Those who know me […]

Cheryl Anne Gardner2011-10-08T17:07:02+02:00October 12th, 2010|Categories: Member Blog|

Dear Readers

I am new to the block. Allow me to give you a brief description of what I write and why I write it.

I am a macabre fantasy fiction writer. I don’t write about zombies, vampires, ethereal erotica, werewolves, elementary-level fantasy with repeating lines or anything of that nature. My preference is to not follow a generic norm, but to create my own evolved, heightened sense of self-defined creative brain vomit for others to enjoy. If I wanted to make guaranteed money, I’d conform to the desires of all the Barnes and Noble patrons and make the most recent surge […]

Lucy Guin2014-05-06T10:04:31+02:00September 28th, 2010|Categories: Member Blog|

Like Minds Think Alike

A bit of circular referencing led me to some very enjoyable reading today, beginning right here at selfpublishingreview.com. I had written a blog post about giving away my stories via Smashwords and Feedbooks, and one of the people commenting on the post was Moxie Mezcal. At the same time, I had come across a reference to an e-book called Broken Bulbs, by Eddie Wright, which sounded intriguing, and thought I had seen it on Smashwords at one time. I searched for it on Smashwords, and found it, discovering at the same time that one of the people who […]

tom lichtenberg2011-10-08T17:22:31+02:00September 21st, 2010|Categories: Features, Member Blog|

Acronym of an Author: jaebi

The following is a brief interview with jaebi, an author who put intense thought into his name for about 10-15 minutes. Since then he’s barely given it another thought, so for the foreseeable future, jaebi will stand for “just another existential brief incarnation.”

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

I had a ton of time to write my book. Over the pace of a few years, you begin to learn more and more about this corporatized world you guess you will eventually be submitting your awesomely formatted manuscript to–the publishing community. […]

Jaebi2011-10-08T17:25:08+02:00September 8th, 2010|Categories: Interviews, Member Blog|

What do Bad Sports Teams, the U.S. Govt, and Self-Publishing Have in Common?

It’s not easy to make the transition from a misanthropic and socially anxious writer to a self-promoting suckup, and the biggest reason I published this first book on my own was because I’ve been losing my mind trying to get agents to even agree to peek at the manuscript for my novel, which is a whole other story.

Trying to get them to read and approve of a collection of drug-fueled, anti-establishment essays about how frustrating it is to spend my time rooting for losers like the U.S. government and my favorite sports teams was something I just couldn’t imagine.[…]

Sean Michael Hogan2020-02-21T06:46:27+02:00September 8th, 2010|Categories: Member Blog|Tags: Book Editing Tips, Writing Tips|