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Ebook pricing – are Indie authors throwing away their hard work?
I read the The Shatzkin Files, probably the most on-the-ball blog commentator on the publishing industry. It seems that with the removal of agency pricing, the big publishers aren’t going to lower...
View ArticleThe downside of free days on Amazon
Authors often give away free ebooks via Amazon, (and other ebook sellers). These are not books offered for review, just given away with no strings attached. The idea is that the giveaway will result in...
View ArticleWhy reviewer’s don’t return authors emails
I’m in an interesting position when it comes to reviewing because I am both a reviewer and an author. As an author, when I first began requesting reviews, I thought it rude that most reviewers simply...
View ArticleShould art reflect society or should it enlighten society?
My first thought on this topic is that these two options are not mutually exclusive. As in many things, balance is the best way, but when reading books, it’s fairly clear that some focus almost...
View ArticleWhat kind of review is this?
I don’t expect everyone to approach reviewing the way I do, and there’s a place for readers who just say what they like and don’t like, but take a look at this one, written about Ariel’s Dream, one of...
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Who’s making the money in independent publishing?
Commedia del’Arte masks from http://centrepieceproductions.com The independent publishing business is booming. Anyone can publish a book and readers have a huge choice of free and ridiculously cheap...
View ArticleWhat is wrong with you people? A letter to Amazon.
After two months of getting the royal run-around on a KDP support request, I sent the following to their support feedback. It’s a good summary, so I decided it was time to share this ridiculous charade...
View ArticleDon’t grumble, help #2
This post follows on from the previous post, Don’t grumble, help #1. Here’s an example of how understanding and accepting instead of grumbling works: some people don’t give the requested info in the...
View ArticleUse rejection as an opportunity to grow.
This post is another example of what I was talking about in the first post in this series on grumbling, Don’t Grumble. The basic philosophy is to try to see things that don’t go the way you want as an...
View ArticleGuest blog: How the Awesome Indies reviewers help Authors
Take a look at this article I wrote for the Awesome Indies blog http://awesomeindies.net/2013/09/29/awesome-indies-book-reviewers-help-authors-well-readers/ Follow these topics: Guest posts, issues,...
View ArticleWhen is it best not to publish?
Never before has it been so easy to publish a book. I think that’s a good thing, but it does have one major unfortunate result and that is the swamping of the marketplace with books that really aren’t...
View ArticleThe Awesome Indies Policy on Bullying
If you haven’t seen this post on the Awesome Indies policy on bullying, take a look. http://awesomeindies.net/2014/01/29/policy-statement-will-bullied/ Basically, if anyone wants to scream at the...
View ArticleAre Self-Published Books Inferior? Some figures.
This article was originally posted on the Awesome Indies. Are Self-Published Books Inferior? This is the question people have been asking and arguing about ever since the new wave of self-publishing...
View ArticleHow NOT to promote your book.
I got a promotional email this morning from an author I didn’t know (though I suspect they are one of the 200 on the Awesome Indies site that I never hear from). Unfortunately, I get quite a few of...
View ArticleSpammers are getting tricky: How to spot spam comments.
I have my blog moderation set to approve the first comment that anyone makes, that means that I have a chance to stop spammers before they start. My spam filter stops all the really obvious ones, but...
View ArticleLiterary Fiction: Not an Excuse for Boring
Literary fiction is supposed to be a category for beautifully written, moving fiction that crosses genres or otherwise doesn’t fit into the genre categories. It’s supposed to deal with ‘deeper’ themes...
View ArticleWhat can I do
The world is crazy. Like a giant computer infected with malware that’s hijacked the browser and sends all searches in one direction—violence and its buddies cruelty and anger. And...
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Travel Torture
Remind me to never fly overnight again. It’s torture. One has to sleep, or at least try to. After all, when you arrive, you have to deal with all sorts of inconveniences like a foreign language,...
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Why readers AND AUTHORS need book evaluation sites & how to choose one.
Anyone can publish a book and anyone often does. This anyone may or may not have skills in writing, but how do the buying public know that if it isn’t clear from the cover and the sample? The reader...
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Book site listings and the real conflict of interest.
Over the last few months, since I set up the AIA Editing service, I have heard that some people were muttering about a perceived conflict of interest between the book evaluation services of the...
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