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Cover Reveal and a Special Deal

October 15, 2012 - by jenniecoughlin - 2 Comments.

I was up in Massachusetts last week, and lined up three book signings for All That is Necessary after it comes out in January. We’re still working out exact dates, but right now, it’s looking like I’ll be meeting with …

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Indie Authors Turn Focus To Quality

December 28, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 15 Comments.

I’m not doing a year-in-review blog post, nor one about predictions for 2012. But one welcome change I’ve been seeing more and more about during the past several weeks is a focus among some indie authors on quality. Robert Bidinotto …

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Indie Authors: Irish Potato Farmers, The Lucky Few or Cannon Fodder?

December 11, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 2 Comments.

I checked my email Thursday and found a different kind of shot — this one by Amazon across the bow for the Big Six. It was an invitation to enroll my book in KDP Select: a chance for indies to …

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Is Amazon Using Its Market Presence to Break The Big Six?

November 30, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 8 Comments.

OK, indie authors, how would you feel if you were selling an average of two books a minute or more for a five-day weekend? Sound crazy? Robert Bidinotto thought so — until he did just that this past weekend. If …

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Book Bloggers: The New Publishing Gatekeepers

November 6, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 11 Comments.

Indie publishing and its effect on traditional publishing is a work in progress, and we can’t fully measure its impact. But as we head into a holiday season where ereaders are likely to be a popular gift, it seems clear …

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Tagging on Amazon

October 19, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 4 Comments.

Several of you have asked if there’s anything you can do now that Thrown Out is published. So I figured I’d post this here. Amazon only lets you put a book in two categories, even though it has a few …

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E-books and The Writer’s Minimum Viable Product

September 28, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin

Joel Friedlander has a great blog post looking at the concept of the Minimum Viable Product for writers, and how e-books have affected that. In journalism terms, we always call it the minimum story, a necessity for any potentially time-consuming …

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E-books vs. print books: Paper lasts longer

August 17, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 5 Comments.

Amid all the discussion about the future of publishing, there’s the perennial debate about if print books will ever disappear. I don’t think they will — TV didn’t eliminate radio, and neither one has eliminated newspapers. Online hasn’t done away …

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Book update: Release set for later this month

August 2, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin

The past couple weeks have been an insanity of rewriting as Kyrie and I shepherd the stories that make up Thrown Out through revisions before publication. The biggest story of the collection, Thrown Out, has more than doubled in size. …

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Why I’m going indie

July 29, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 7 Comments.

This is not a surprise if you’ve been reading my blog, but I’m going indie — starting next week, I hope. Research, combined with my experiences in the newspaper industry’s transformation during the past decade have convinced me that at …

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