Scath | July 14, 2010
Upon receiving my first sale of Feral Intensity (which was my first self-published title), I began the ‘tradition’ of racing to wherever my SO is and doing a happy dance. I think it stopped amusing him around my 20th sale, but oh well. Amazon no longer allows us to share any information from our DTP [...]
Category: Bloggings, Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, Babble, e-books, erotica, paranormal, readers, romance, sales, self publishing, Smashwords
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 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 | July 4, 2010
Smashwords has partnered with Wattpad, which is billed as the “the world’s most popular ebook community” and “a social network for writers to connect with readers” according to the press release issued. First glance, this was my opinion: While a new partnership is great news, has anyone actually checked out the ‘What’s Hot’ section on [...]
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: Babble, readers, Smashwords, writers, writing
Scath | June 24, 2010
Here we are for another Thirsty Thursday! I have this delightful webfic in my to-be-read list. Don’t miss it. Mrs Darcy vs The Aliens Hello everyone. Time for another imposter to hijack the lovely Scath’s blog to try to persuade you to spend your valuable time perusing their shady corner of the web. Today [...]
Category: Thirsty Thursdays |
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Tags: #webfic, promotion, readers, writers