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Self-publishing and social networking

The main advantage of self-publishing for me is that as the author, I have full control over the content, design, and marketing of my book. I also decide when it goes to press and I retain all the publication and subsidiary rights. Thus, I was free to penetrate a niche market in foreign romance, which a commercial publisher would have ignored. I also believe that my book had a greater chance of success because I was very committed to promoting it, more than say, a publisher who has hundreds of other titles.

In terms of sales, A Heart to Mend […]

Myne Whitman2020-02-21T03:58:11+02:00February 21st, 2011|Categories: Features, Resources|Tags: Book Marketing Advice and Tips|

Indie Book Review: The Doom Guardian

This review features spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Say you go for a walk and find a milky-gray translucent pebble. It’s all knobby and cloudy and encrusted with dirt. If you take it home, wash it off, polish it up, and cut it, you may have a diamond. You may have some nicely cut and polished quartz. Just like with pebbles, a rough story makes it hard to tell if you’ve got a diamond or quartz in your hands.

The Doom Guardian is rough. When I review stories I make notes of the grammar errors, typos, formatting issues, and […]

Keryl Raist2011-02-19T18:14:29+02:00February 19th, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews, Features|

Amazon Has Some REAL Good News and They Have Some Great News for e-Textbook and eBook Users

What do you want to read first?

Ok. We will start with the REAL good news.

Amazon has announced changes to their Kindle software. First they are going to display page numbers. This is a feature that academic Kindle and ebook users have been asking for since e-textbooks and ebooks started to appear. It has raised a large page numbering controversy and a lot of misconceptions.

The Nook does this and the iPad does that. Both for the most part use device page numbers and not physical book page numbers but who’s keeping track. (PDF versions are an exception.)[…]

James Moushon2019-02-18T12:23:14+02:00February 9th, 2011|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon News and Tips|

Self-Publishing: Some advice for emerging writers.

photo credit: gruntzooki

I’ve been seeing a lot of conversation going on lately about self-publishing and how it relates to emerging writers. This is a topic that I’m quite interested in, having both considered the possibility of self-publishing and applied the term ’emerging’ to myself and my writing. So I thought I’d take a moment and explore my own thoughts surrounding the subject and give some advice on how to make the best of the current scene.

Broadly speaking, I’m in favour of self-publishing as a thing. As far as I’m concerned, the more options an artist has to distribute […]

Phill English2011-02-08T19:34:06+02:00February 8th, 2011|Categories: Features|

Is Google the future of eBooks?

As I’ve mentioned, I love my Kindle (I really do), but I’m not crazy in love with the Kindle store. I went to download a book the other day, and and it seriously took me like fifteen minutes to pull the trigger. The problem wasn’t the $9.99 I was paying — I would have gladly paid more for a physical copy. The problem was that if I pay ten bucks for something I want it to me be mine. I don’t want it to be locked in some device that I may or may not still have […]

mattyoungmark2011-02-03T10:45:57+02:00February 3rd, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|

What Makes the Top Selling eBook Authors Tick?

Sometimes when I am Google Reading in the World of the eBook Author, I come across a post that takes me back in time. A post that brings back memories of my early business career. Oh, the world of Peter Drucker, Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle.

Daniel Hall did that with a blog on the Selling Books blog site: USING THE “LONG TAIL” IN WRITING AND MARKETING YOUR BOOKS. Selling Books is a great marketing blog for eBook Authors.

The essence of his post was the story of the longevity of a digital book.
First. eBook sales […]

James Moushon2020-02-21T03:35:51+02:00February 3rd, 2011|Categories: Features|Tags: Author Branding|

Every ‘No’ Not A Roadblock

The R-word just won’t go away. I’m talking about rejection. Writers know it well.

As an independent author, rejection is just a painful part of the game. I didn’t mail my manuscript to a hundreds of publishers like other authors, but I did mail it to several over the years. And, well, you know the rest.

However, my story is a little different because I finally got a “nice” rejection from a major publisher. And when I say nice I just mean the editor liked my book, but those with the decision-making power did not. The one who liked my […]

Vanessa W. Snyder2011-01-28T23:10:28+02:00January 28th, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|

A Note from the New Guy

Hello, everyone.

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few days now, but prior commitments have kept me from it. Now that I’m here, I want to take a moment to introduce myself directly.

Name’s Todd. I’ve been involved in self/indie publishing for the last 7 years. I had my first taste of it in college, when I interned for my university’s under-funded literary journal. That same year I raised money to do a very limited, offset run of my first short story collection. In ’07 I utilized Lulu’s services to release a novel; in ’10, I utilized […]

Todd Keisling2017-03-24T09:52:21+02:00January 16th, 2011|Categories: Features|