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2011 Business Plan in Review Start up publishing company Check! Doing it was easy. Finding a name for the publishing company was hard. It took almost two months of thinking, putting up ideas on a dry-erase board, and researching domain names before I settled on “Star Catcher Publishing.” Set up Distribution and Retailer Accounts Again, [...] Wow, it’s amazing what a year can do to plans. Way back in December 2009 I created a business plan for writing which included writing and submitting multiple novels to publishers in order to increase the odds of hitting the right editor at the right time. 2010 increased the writing, and also took advantage of [...] I once had a business plan. I worked several days on it, refining and tweaking various goals. Then I got to the list of the books. And I’ve already finished and published most of them. I knew going into this that once I got going I would probably move forward a bit faster than expected. [...] I was really hoping to go rant-free for a while, maybe a month. Really, I tried… During a recent writer’s chat on Twitter an old myth came to light once again. What is it? You are either a “starving artist” or you are a “sell-out” and not a real artist. Art is above money! To [...] The Indie Author. So many challenges, so much to learn. So much to watch out for, so much to take responsibility for. And so much fun! One big plus to the Indie movement is the ability to write what you love instead of writing to editorial or marketing department demands. This means the readers are [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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