March 2012

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Suw Charman-Anderson writes: But anyone taking an objective view of self-publishing can see that it shows every sign of reaching the Peak of Inflated Expectations. And that can mean only one thing: Soon it will take that inevitable, unavoidable tumbling slide down into the Trough of Disillusionment. Just because new tools make the technical aspects

I’ve been all over the spectrum when it comes to deciding whether I like Amazon or not, but I’m at the point, now, where I feel like that if people don’t want Amazon to out-compete them, they have to provide me with something better. The reason I don’t go to WalMart is that I don’t

The other posts in this discussion are about buying an ereader before you start selling ebooks (especially if you’re going to give some out for free) and calculating how much you invested in your ebook.  If you want to know where I’m getting the figures for how much your book costs, look at the second. Last time:

A while ago, I had one of those days when I was looking for a good kids’ book to review and hadn’t found anything that wasn’t like, “Oh, those wacky kids! How wacky!  Kids are wacky!  Wacky’s the biggest word I can use around kids, you know!  Because they’re not smart enough to understand anything

The indie editing series continues (starts here but the collective posts are here). — What is copyediting? Copyediting, when it comes to books, is the stage between content editing (which you should have finished by this point) and layout/formatting.  The general idea is to make the book text perfect before handing it off to be formatted, so

Here’s what I think:  it’s awfully hard not to have a blind spot about people you don’t like. And it’s awfully hard not to have a blind spot about people who make your skin crawl. Nevertheless.  We can’t be all “Woo hoo, advertisers are pulling support from Rush Limbaugh’s program!” and all “Boooo! Paypal threatens

Results from a KDP Select experiment under my adult title name: http://t.co/LHJdWaKH # The reporter write up on my Ebook 101 talk: http://t.co/FWChcs6E # Powered by Twitter Tools

The other posts in this discussion are about buying an ereader before you start selling ebooks (especially if you’re going to give some out for free) and calculating how much you invested in your ebook.  If you want to know where I’m getting the figures for how much your book costs, look at the second.

**** Excellent This book has a male main character who is older than middle-grade, but this too action-filled and enjoyable for anyone of middle-grade age to pass up.  A few strong female characters, but they have minor roles. About 300 pages. In short: Jack, the son of extremly talented metal-working parents, goes in search of