Scath | July 7, 2010
I read three different blog posts by traditional publishing employee types last night, and in each, those who self-publish were called ‘losers’. You know, because EVERYBODY who chooses to self-publish has been rejected by traditional publishers hundreds or thousands of times because their work ‘just wasn’t ready’, or plain sucked and should never try to crawl out of [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Babble, Goals, readers, self publishing, writers, writing
Scath | July 6, 2010
Last night, I set some goals for completing various titles in progress. This may prove boring – you’ve been warned.
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: e-books, Goals, word counts, writing
Scath | July 5, 2010
Come November, I’ll have been at this indie author/self-publishing pursuit for three years. I don’t expect I’ll know much more about how it all works by then than I currently do, because it’s a puzzling business. Starting out with original fiction back in June 2007 (okay, there were a few instances prior to that, but [...]
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: #webfic, Amazon, Babble, Challenges, e-books, Goals, readers, self publishing, Smashwords, word counts, writing
Scath | June 7, 2010
You’re a writer, and may be wondering what route to take in regards to publishing. The first hard fact you should know is that regardless of which choice you make, it’s going to be hard. The choices are: Traditional Publishing, Small Press Publishing and Self-publishing. Please note that I didn’t mention Vanity Publishing…
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: e-books, Goals, promotion, self publishing, small publishers, traditional publishing, writers, writing
Scath | June 4, 2010
I was trying to think of something useful to post about today, and this is what I decided on. Things I’ve seen repeatedly concerning ebooks: They cost next to nothing to produce, or nothing at all except the writer’s time and effort They aren’t worth as much as physical books, plus DRM infection, blah, blah, [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, cover art, DRM free, e-books, Goals, readers, self publishing, Smashwords, word counts, writers