And so it begins. One of the arguments for indie music and film and against indie authorship is that very often big Hollywood studios and big record companies seem to like to cheat artists out of money. It’s like a fun hobby. Most people are fairly aware by now of how abusive many record companies [...]
I own an earlier edition of this book, so I was somewhat familiar with the work. The earlier edition was a valuable part of my early education with regards to self-publishing. But the thing I found most frustrating about the book was that it ignored print-on-demand printing through Lightning Source, acting like it didn’t exist. [...]
I’m pretty underwhelmed by a lot of book trailers. This is especially true when the book trailer is created by the author. I just don’t think most of us are independent filmmakers. Nor are we graphic designers. And I think we have to question whenever we put something out there to market our work… is [...]
An indie author friend of mine sent me a book trailer for his book in email the other day. And I don’t know, I think it was some kind of straw that broke the camel’s back and turned me into a big bag of crazy. (Though I might have already been there.) Because I kind [...]
I’m about to go into rant mode. I think some people are forgetting the “self” part of self-publishing. In order to self-publish successfully you must be: SELF-directed SELF-motivated SELF-reliant SELF-confident And I’m sure there are some more self-words out there somewhere that apply to this discussion. The biggest thing that causes so many self-published authors [...]
Piracy is an issue that pisses off a lot of authors. It pisses me off too. I try to focus on the positive, on the readers who respect me enough to either pay for my work, or only take for free that which I give them. But I won’t lie, my novellas are 99 cents [...]
On the blog, Life’s a Beach, Samantha Hunter posted about Self-Publishing: What do readers think? Hunter says: Let’s face it, authors get fired on from all directions — reviews, blogs, e-mails from readers pointing out typos, gaps, etc – so there is good reason for authors to fear the lack of editing that comes with [...]
Recently I had to end things with my cover artist. She’s a great artist and a nice person, but our needs were mutually exclusive. To be clear up front, this was MY error, not hers. I spend a bunch of time ranting about how indie authors do NOT have to sell/license their work to a [...]