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This week was going to be a post about Nano prep, but, well… This week there were many good blog posts by other authors I followed. Part of the fun is to read the comments. And some of the comments had me rolling my eyes to the point it could have been physically damaging. What [...] A little bit of a rant here about the advice to authors, especially Indie authors, that have been making the rounds online since, well, forever. To the point of feeling as if I’ll get beat over the head if I don’t pay attention and follow it. It’s a subject I would love for Dean Wesley [...] Ah, August. Heat-wave, sick, and add on top of it the traditional book-publishing summer slump. I went into August figuring that any sales would be a wonderful surprise. Don’t expect anything. Just be happy with anything you get. And I was very surprised. July is technically a part of the publishing summer slump, but for [...] There are a lot of ebook formats out there. Epub, Mobi, Lrf, and so on. Epub and Mobi are the big ones, backed by Barnes & Noble and Amazon respectively. Not all of them can stand forever. And now one has fallen. Yes, this reminds me of the VHS/Betamax, Blue-Ray/HD DVD wars. The .Lit format was [...] And now we continue analyzing the objections to Smashwords. The main complaints? I sell way more at Amazon with Kindle! Quarterly payments are too slow. Slow sales (for most) Meatgrinder woes! Premium Distribution is too hard to get into! Premium Distribution sales numbers come in too slow. The first three we went over last week. Now [...] I promised a post about Smashwords and here it is! A word of warning: this turned out to be a little long, but there’s a lot of information to cover. So much so that I had to split it up into two posts. Smashwords. The ebook etailer and distributor that either has authors/publishers smiling or [...] July was an interesting month. Many authors and publishers reported a drop of sales, from 1/3 to 1/2 of normal. As we’re now in the summer slump I figured it would happen to me and wasn’t really worried about it. At the beginning of July Smashwords announced a month-long ebook Summer/Winter sale that authors and [...] Kris Kathryn Rusch wrote a great post called “The Business Rusch: Popcorn Kittens!” about the exciting possibilities of going Indie. That the writer can write to what they and the reader wants, not to what an editor, agent, or publisher wants. Heady freedom, but it comes at a price. As she mentioned: “Each time I [...] |
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