Posts Tagged ‘self-publishing’
The collective insanity of the publishing industry
Unless you’re a writer, I imagine you haven’t been paying quite as close attention to the publishing industry and all its weirdness as I have, and that’s a shame, because it’s been really entertaining. Actually, entertaining isn’t the right word. It’s been insane, but the kind of insane that’s unreasonably fun to watch from a safe remove.…
Read MoreSelf-publishing article on HuffPo
Hi everyone! I have a new article up at the Huffington Post: The Self Published Authors Standing On Your Lawn Self-published authors, we are led to believe, are scheming “writers” who aren’t good enough to land an agent or a publisher, have no interest in improving the craft–and show no respect for that craft–eschew editing…
Read MoreNew Huffington Post article: can we talk
I have a new Huffington Post article up today: Hi! Can We Talk About Self-Publishing? Excerpt: I published eight things in 2014: two novels, and six novellas. The novels were through a publisher, and one is already off the market–I reclaimed the rights–and will be re-released in 2015. The six novellas were self-published. There is no…
Read MoreDiscussions from Please Stop
Follow-up: Huffington Post article gets some conversations going The article I wrote on Friday— Please Stop— for the Huffington Post, has triggered a few discussions and a good deal of welcome attention. I’d like to thank the many people who have taken a minute to tell me how much they enjoyed the article, and also…
Read MoreHuffington Post Article: Please Stop
Amazon vs. Hachette So, funny story. Over the past couple of days I’ve been reading different articles loosely pertaining to the Amazon vs. Hachette dispute, and they were really starting to annoy me. Not the dispute itself so much as the depiction of authors who have not been published by the “big 5”. There’s a…
Read MoreSURVIVING HECTOR: a short story
A new thriller for your Kindle If you absorb your books via Amazon Kindle, and you like what I write, you’re in luck! It turns out I went and wrote a short story recently, and it’s available right this very moment! It’s called Surviving Hector and it’s based on a screenplay I wrote a few years…
Read MoreThe Latest Column on the Future of Publishing
I am nothing if not trendy I have seen a large number of articles recently about The Future of Publishing. This may be because I spend much of my “I’m promoting my book” time hanging out on Twitter with other writers, but that doesn’t mean the question isn’t being put out there a lot. I…
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