Literary agent Ted Weinstein, who I have the pleasure of seeing each year at the San Francisco Writers Conference, has done us all a favor and gotten Amanda Hocking and Barry Eisler together to chat about publishing and their recent decision about how to publish their own books. They’ve compared indie publishing to traditional publishing–of course, discussing e-book publishing. For…
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Successful Indie Author Offers “New Rules for Success”
It’s always best to learn from those who have done something successfully. Here’s some great advice from an indie author who has not gone the e-book way but has achieved great success. Penelope Trunk is the founder of three startups—most recently, Brazen Careerist, a career management tool for next-generation professionals. Her career advice appears in more than 200 newspapers. Inc….
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Never Stop Chasing Coverage for Your Book
If you think publicity, promotion and marketing for book stops three months after it comes out, your wrong. These jobs continue forever…at least if you want to continue seeing sales. And you can’t expect your traditional publisher to do this work for you. If you’re an indie publisher, of course, this job falls solely to you as well. Today, my…
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How to Turn a Research Paper Into a Book
A lot of people write long research papers for masters or doctorate programs. They come to me with the same question: “Can my research paper be turned into a nonfiction book?” I don’t have a pat answer; it depends upon their paper. However, in general, a major difference exists between a research paper and a nonfiction book: A research paper…
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Hocking signs 4-book deal so she can be a writer
After I published this post yesterday, today I saw this article announcing that Amanda Hocking had, indeed, signed a four-book deal with St. Martin’s Press in New York, reportedly for $2 million. As she said in her blog, she’s a writer: “I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling emails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Right now,…
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