If you have something to say...
Say it on the Huffington Post
If you have something to say...
Say it on the Huffington Post
You have a book in you. I know it, you know it, but it has been how long already? I know you have a million reasons to not go ahead with it. Today, I will help you with the few reasons why you simply have to!
Two women writing two trilogies garnering a lion's share of all book sales? Coincidence? I thought so until I received a telephone call from Bruce Watson a private investigator who specializes in uncovering improprieties in the publishing industry.
To compete with free, publishers need to make their content more attractive and essentially, discoverable. Entering the ebook market late will result in lost revenue to piracy.
Direct email marketing allows you to do three things at once: remind people of your work, promote your work and boost book sales.
We all get the silent treatment, regardless of where we are in our careers. Don't let it discourage you. Instead use this time as a way to assess, realign, or add to your skill set. I promise that if you do, someday the cone of silence will lift.
Get out there on the blogosphere and you're going to run across it: strong words--yea or nay--about the merits of e-publishing.
There's probably no going back: e-books are going to be the dominant form for publishing pretty soon. Consider that 23 percent of Americans now read...
"Tableau vivant" or just downright crazy? When it comes to breaking through the noise of the busy book publishing ecosystem, I encourage my fellow authors to not be afraid in taking their message to the streets.
I know from personal experience that writing books makes you particularly opinionated about the publishing industry, but Brad Feld is actually doing something about it. I sat down with him to talk about BookShout.
In this interview, Guy shares his thoughts on publishing and why he decided to forgo the traditional model and go indie.
For every 100 forgettable works, there's one by a Robert Caro or a Wade Davis. But you have to ask the question: why do the New York publishers pump out so many books on trivial subjects, or books that shed no new light on the same old issues.
"I want to implore you to remember to dedicate at least as much effort, if not more, to craft than you did before you started taking on so many of the...
It's a common occurrence: We love an author, we've read all her books, we can't wait to hear her read at a local book store. And when we go, the readi...
Congratulations. You got a book contract! Now it's time to finish the manuscript. Are you frozen with fear, wondering if you're up to the task? That, in my opinion, is a great place to be.
Hosting forums on the future of anything is a powerful way to shape the questions people ask. In the case of publishing, the inevitable questions are: what is the relationship between print and ebook sales? How should we think about the rise of one and the fall of the other?
The process and emotions are eerily similar. I plot, plan and carefully script the query to my novel hoping that the object of my desire will say yes please, show me a bit more.
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