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A Sincere Warning About the Entity in your Home (via @jasonarnopp)
I love literary experiments, and this is a great one by Jason Arnopp. So great, that I’m posting another post on Friday, when I should be relaxing instead of thinking about the publishing industry: A...
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An Observation About Amazon in Joe Konrath’s Sales Breakdown
In a way Joe Konrath feels like the Richard Dawkins of self-publishing: unapologetic and divisive. But I’m not interested in people’s reaction to him today, I’m merely reposting a link to his detailed...
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Self-Publishing and eBook Parts (via @jakonrath)
Joe Konrath shares the structure he uses to format his ebooks, with explanations for each part. I’ll just post the headline items here. It’s quite a useful look at how an electronic book differs from a...
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Simon & Schuster Pushing a Dodgy Vanity Imprint (via @indieauthor, HT:...
True: You need professional quality work if you are self-publishing. False: You should pay a dodgy vanity publisher to do this for you. True: Simon & Schuster emailed April L. Hamilton from...
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How WOOL got a Unique Publishing Deal (via @lkblackburne)
Interesting story by Hugh Howey, author of WOOL: When Kristin Nelson first contacted me about representing WOOL, I warned her that I didn’t think I’d ever sell the rights to a publisher. My series of...
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I’m a Self-Publishing Failure (via @salon)
John Winters discusses the other, more common side of self-publishing: An article in the New York Times claims that 81 percent of us believe we have a book in us. This sounds painful – both...
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From Self-Publishing to All Sorts of Amazing Publishing Deals (via...
Just an interesting article about Colleen Hoover, who managed to turn her self-publishing into a step to more traditional publishing contracts, including movie deals. Although publishing, as we’ve said...
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Self-Publishing is the Worst (HT: @annetreasure)
I was going to present this without comment, but any of you who know me realise that was a lofty goal indeed. I … I don’t want to put the boot into Ted Heller for writing his article. But…well…he...
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New Smashwords Survey Helps Authors Sell More eBooks (via @markcoker, HT:...
Mark Coker from Smashwords has collated the results of a Smashwords author survey, and there’s a whole bunch of fancy graphs and juicy data in there. I’ll just post the headers for each section, to...
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Survivorship bias: why 90% of the advice about writing is bullshit right now...
Tobias Buckell raises some very important points about listening to successful self-published authors: In an interview recently, David Kirtley pointed out that in business school there’s this point...
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Self-Publishing: How to Pick the Size of your Book (via @jfbookman)
A detailed article from The Book Designer on considerations for your self-published print book, including the different formats and sizes offered by the various online printing services and...
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Baboon Fart Odyssey (via @cstross)
You may or may not have seen Chuck Wendig’s joke about being able to create an ebook with 100,000 instances of the word ‘fart’, slap a cover of a baboon peeing into its own mouth on it, and...
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