Cover Reveal and a Special Deal
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 …
Tag: e-books
Indie Authors Turn Focus To Quality
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 …
Indie Authors: Irish Potato Farmers, The Lucky Few or Cannon Fodder?
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: …
Is Amazon Using Its Market Presence to Break The Big Six?
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 …
Book Bloggers: The New Publishing Gatekeepers
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 …
Tagging on Amazon
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 …
E-books and The Writer’s Minimum Viable Product
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 …
E-books vs. print books: Paper lasts longer
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 …
Book update: Release set for later this month
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 …
Why I’m going indie
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 …