Book Reviews
IndieJourney
Hugh Howey Explains Everything
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Mar 11, 2013
As someone who writes apocalyptic fiction, it comes quite naturally for me to announce that tomorrow should never happen. And yet somehow, I’m going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that a story I wrote while working as a bookseller—a story that blossomed into a novel one serialized piece at a time—is now being released into bookstores far and wide. Read On
How I Got My Indie Books Onto The NYTimes Bestseller List
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May 17, 2011
Romantic suspense happens to be a smoking hot genre and I write smoking hot characters… Read On
IndieJourney: Thomas Lloyd Qualls
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Jan 26, 2011
Anyone who has ever finished a novel–and all those many more who have not been able to–will tell you that the writing and re-writing and tearing apart and starting over and writing some more, not to mention the drinking caused by all this, takes up a fair bit of time. So when it was finally over I breathed a naive sigh of relief, thinking that the hard part was behind me. Read On
IndieJourney: Shel Horowitz
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My books on frugal marketing keep shuttling between self-published and traditionally published. Read On
IndieJourney: Rona Lewis
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Wait. I’m not famous, so you won’t publish my book and help me GET famous? You want ME to do all the work and perhaps sometime in the future you’ll consider me if I ever get national exposure?
IndieJourney: Richard Corn
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I contacted several publishers and had a few conversations with one. But for me, the issues were that I would make very little money per copy and that I would lose full control of the content. Read On
IndieJourney: Richard Best
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In hindsight, all I can say is: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Read On
IndieJourney: Rene van Rems
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Self-publishing was not my first choice. I spoke to agents and publishers and in all my discussions and interviews I was always the chicken and they were the egg and if I was the egg they were the chicken. Read On
IndieJourney: Rebecca Staton-Reinstein
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I’ve gotten extensive praise for the writing and much of the credit goes to these editors who helped me tighten and strengthen my writing.
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IndieJourney: Peter Bowerman
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Okay, so I’ve been a “paying-all-the-bills-and-then-some” writer since 1994 and just released my fourth book. Read On
