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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 [...] 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 [...] Day 24 Wordcount: 201 (Mop Jockies and Fighter Pilots, Short Story #9) It took a while for an idea to come to me tonight. I think the problem was two-fold. 1. I’m still catching up on sleep and I would rather nap. 2. After 8 short stories and novelettes, the head wants to work on longer [...] Smashwords is a great service, and they have done a good job in making deals with various online stores so that their authors can get into them.. For one online retail store, however, that has just changed. Pubit, (The name still makes me cringe) by Barnes and Nobles, is now active and open to submissions. [...] Okay, back to the business. I need product to sell. From previous posts (and a lot of thinking) I know it needs the following qualities: * New project * Project must be ready for release somewhere between January to March 2011 * Novella length (17,500 to 40,000 words) We talked before about an Idea File. [...] I’ve made a business decision to see what might happen as an Indi Author/Publisher. As I want this to be successful, I cannot just let things fall as they may. So, it’s time to make a few hard decisions. I need to go into this with a plan. A full business plan will come later, [...] Do I think print books are dead? Absolutely not. I love them and so do a great many others. But I also see things changing, and the print form of books may take a different (and smaller) market segment than they do now. Along with them will go the ‘traditional’ path of the big publisher. [...] It seems that at some point in January the plug-in for WordPress stopped forwarding the same post to my Livejournal account. This is a post to see if it is now working. And since I don’t want a completely boring post to be out there, I thought I would offer a nice link. “Creativity Workshop: [...] |
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