I woke up this morning to an email from Amazon sent to self published authors asking them to email Hachette and ask they lower their prices. The letter had some organizational problems (the call to action was buried at the end of the two-page missive), but had good points. The main problem with the letter (which I’ll […]
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It’s a month late and a dollar short, but happy anniversary (or is it a birthday?) to Life First, which published June 16 of last year. It hardly seems like it’s been a year, but it definitely has. So, what has the year brought? On the positive side, Life First has been well received by
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If you have a print copy of any of the self-published editions of the WOOL series, you may have noticed something strange on page 99 of each book. Doesn’t matter which book in the series, they all have as the page number: 99%. That’s the rest of us. Of course, another writer pointed out to me while
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Happy Monday to you. I hope you had a great Fourth of July weekend and are ready to get right back in there. I’m in the process of figuring out how summer is going to work for me. I’ve taken on the commitment of writing a thousand words a day. While my kids were in
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A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post called, There is no Stigma to Success. In it, I mentioned one of the benefits of being self published was that there was no ticking clock. You could take as long as you needed to find your footing as an author and gain traction. But guess
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Even though I often think of myself as just an author or your average, run-of-the-mill person, as a writer who self publishes, I’m a business, too. And it’s not a sound business strategy simply to root for other people’s stupidity. I say this because I read an interesting opinion piece on Salon the other day.
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