A couple of years ago, most readers were against e-readers. All the same arguments came up about eyestrain and loving the smell of paper and holding a book in your hand, and blah blah blah. These are all arguments I once made myself. But, once a reader *tries* an e-reader, the vast majority of them, [...]
I was talking to some fellow indie friends and friends considering going indie, and we started talking about the fact that Self-publishing becoming viable in the digital age is taking away a lot of fear with regards to publishing. I remember a few years ago when I very first started my writer blog, I was [...]
One of the few big drawbacks of being an indie author is that indies are pretty much on their own when it comes to distribution and marketing. While it’s true that many NY pubbed books get limited distribution in bookstores and sometimes very little marketing, indies don’t get any. Any marketing an indie gets they [...]
There is a habit among indie authors to deny that most self-published books suck as if this is an unfair assessment. It’s not an unfair assessment. It’s the truth. Most self-published books DO suck. Go to Smashwords and just start reading without filtering through any of it. Most of it is so appallingly bad you’ll [...]
One of the complaints given over and over about self-published books is that “even if” there are some jewels out there, without the gatekeepers, how will readers “find” those jewels without spending an inordinate amount of time looking for the needle in the proverbial haystack of crap? Answers run the gamut of showcase sites/bookstores that [...]
One thing I say repeatedly as an indie is that self-publishing is hard work and it’s not for everyone. Even if it *is* for you, it’s still hard work, and if Rome wasn’t built in a day, your indie empire won’t be either. Publishing of any sort whether traditional or indie, is not “get rich [...]
Last week on the author blog I talked about spending your money where it matters and brought up formatting. People have very strong opinions when it comes to indie publishing, how things should be done and how they shouldn’t be done. One area in which there tends to be a lot of behind-the-scenes debate, is [...]
It took Thomas Edison over 1,000 tries to solve his light bulb problem. He experimented and tweaked over and over until he got it right. What if he’d given up after attempt number 10? Or… what if he’d listened to someone else when they told him not to try a certain strategy because it was [...]