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Do Traditional Publishers Hinder Your Ability to Reach Readers?

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While at the San Francisco Writers Conference I had the pleasure to hear Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, speak about writing and distributing e-books. I’ve been piddling around about getting my short books, which are available as pdf-type ebooks on my websites, loaded up to Smashwords so they will get broader distribution, so I was excited to hear any tidbits…
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Write the Book You Must Write

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While at the San Francisco Writers Conference this past weekend, I had the pleasure of hearing David Morrell, author of First Blood (Rambo) speak. He gave the lunchtime keynote. I figured this would be another boring fiction talk, especially since it was by an author writing the type of fiction I don’t read. Plus, I “do” nonfiction, not fiction. However,…
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The Future of Publishing (Part 3)

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Ranson Stephens, Ph.D., a writer, physicist, and public speaker, joins us one last time for part three of his series on the future of the publishing industry. He’s a novelist and mentions other novelists as well as nonfiction writers. The information in his posts is relevant to all writers. Today he looks at the inimitable strengths of the legacy publishing…
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The Future of Publishing (Part 2)

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Today Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., joins us again for part two of his series on the future of the publishing industry. Today we look at the evolving state of self-publishing, title-positioning and business practices. If you missed part one, which focused on book development and acquisition, you can read it here. Stephens a writer, physicist, and public speaker, and I met…
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The Future of Publishing (Part 1)

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The publishing industry changes constantly. Large publishers gobble up smaller ones. Writers now self-publish more books. Books are turned into electronic formats. Readers choose to read more books on e-readers. Large bookstores, like Borders, go out of business. For the next three days (Thursday, Friday and Monday), thanks to Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., we will take a close look at the…
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