Self-Publishing News: E-Lending, Big Deals, Book Pirates
Two items from TeleRead regarding eBooks and libraries. First, “ALA OITP releases backgrounder document on eBooks […]
Self-Publishing News: Ebook Sales and Resales, Losing the Plot, Fighting for Libraries
Enroll Your Books in the 2012 Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale (July 1 – 31):
[…]Here in the Northern hemisphere, it’s mid-summer. Readers everywhere are loading up their e-reading devices for summer beach reading and vacations. But what about the good people South of the equator, who are now in the middle
Gee, Thanks! – Ebook Promotion & Giveaways
Media Bistro has put together a list of places where self-published authors can promote their eBook at no charge. The list was culled from Kindle Boards:
We’ve collected more information about the sites in a simple directory below, linking to the submission pages for these eBook sites. If you are an avid eBook reader, these sites are great for finding new books to read as well….
Book Dreams and Schemes: Questionable Promotion Offers
[…]The first of the “suite of services,” the Hollywood Book-to-Movie Treatment, costs a cool $3,299. For that, you get a 7-10 page “creative adaptation” of your book written by a screenwriter. Which screenwriter? What are his/her credits? Sorry, that info is not available. …
It hurts my heart, and my brain, to think that authors might actually shell out this kind of money for services that would likely net them zero results even if
Self-Publishers and eBook Authors Need a CHAMPION to Assist Them in Gaining Access to the Library Lending Process
At the top of the ladder are the traditional publishers, Amazon and Overdrive. They are the people that have the most control. Their motive is profit. At the bottom rung are the libraries and the authors.
I have discussed this issue with several authors recently and the sentiment is the same. “How do I make […]
An Experiment in Serial Fiction and Self-Publication
Then every so often, I’d do something a bit more, something to enrich the story and experience — a full short story perhaps, or an in-character piece of music, or an audio play.
I had several goals in creating a project like this. One was to have a story […]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics for Authors
Leaning a little about search engine optimization or SEO can help.
SE-what, you ask? Some strange computer virus?
No, nothing so scary. Let’s take a look at the basics.
What Is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization is the art of making your site/blog seem particularly useful and important to Google, so it’ll list your pages higher than those of […]
Beating them off with a Schtick
I’ve written a book with a schtick.
If I tell you that when I first drafted my collection of Christmas-themed horror shorts they were as a gift for my wife, who loves the holidays like no doe-eyed child ever did, and that I genuinely wanted to explore the notion of ‘giving’ creatively, while reveling in a mythology that is all too rarely untouched by serious genre writers, precisely because the associated tinsel-trimmed gimmickry makes them seem corny or hackneyed: you still won’t care. If I tell you these things they will only ring as excuses: as the book enters the […]