L.A. Jones's Blog, page 26
June 25, 2012
How Amazon Saved My Life
How Amazon Saved My Life: How did I end up on my own? It began when I couldn’t get my first YA book, "Relatively Famous", published, despite getting stellar feedback from editors and nearly selling the film rights to a teen pop star. I was at a loss for what to do. I couldn’t keep writing books without selling them. What if the next thing I wrote flopped? I took a risk, in many ways, and wrote "
June 24, 2012
After viral e-book, Iowa author inks seven-figure deal | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
After viral e-book, Iowa author inks seven-figure deal | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com: A self-published Clive author whose manuscript was rejected by 14 publishers a year ago hit a writer’s jackpot last week.
Tracey Garvis Graves of Clive signed a two-book deal with Dutton & Plume, which she says is worth “seven figures, a good seven figures.”
Tracey Garvis Graves of Clive signed a two-book deal with Dutton & Plume, which she says is worth “seven figures, a good seven figures.”
June 22, 2012
Help Save Our Home!
I know that there are probably millions of other people out there that are probably going through the same thing, so you probably ask yourself, why should I care about you? Your right, I’m not that special, but let me say this, unless someone cares a whole lot, then no one will ever care, and nothing will ever change, there will still be homeless people and families like myself that will never
700,000 books later, she finally has a ‘bestseller’ - The Style Blog - The Washington Post
700,000 books later, she finally has a ‘bestseller’ - The Style Blog - The Washington Post: Dropped by her print publisher after lackluster sales, Belleville, a Stanford economics grad and a former singer/songwriter, started self-publishing her e-books two years ago. When steamy titles like “Take Me” and “Game for Love” caught on, she started writing new books as fast as her fingers could fly (
June 20, 2012
Brooklyn teen Alvaro Blanco writes and publishes sci-fi novel five years after learning English - NY Daily News
Brooklyn teen Alvaro Blanco writes and publishes sci-fi novel five years after learning English - NY Daily News: Alvaro Blanco will never forget the day last month he came home and found the first copy of his self-published book folded in with the rest of the mail.
Blanco, 17, tore open a tiny box with his name on it and pulled out his 144-page sci-fi epic that took more than a year to write
Blanco, 17, tore open a tiny box with his name on it and pulled out his 144-page sci-fi epic that took more than a year to write
June 19, 2012
David Thorne Earned More With Self-Pub Book Than Traditional Publication - AppNewser
David Thorne Earned More With Self-Pub Book Than Traditional Publication - AppNewser: For David Thorne, a NYT Bestselling author, self-publishing has been more profitable than working with a traditional publisher.
In fact, the author has made more money from his newly self-published book I’ll Go Home Then; It’s Warm and Has Chairs, than he did from his book The Internet is a Playground, which
In fact, the author has made more money from his newly self-published book I’ll Go Home Then; It’s Warm and Has Chairs, than he did from his book The Internet is a Playground, which
June 17, 2012
Autistic woman: pole dancing cured my fear of outside | The Sun |News
Autistic woman: pole dancing cured my fear of outside | The Sun |News: Kaiya Latham, 27, taught herself pole dancing from the comfort of her own home using tutorials on video site YouTube.
After spending years trapped indoors she now has the confidence to pursue her dream and teach others to pole dance.
After spending years trapped indoors she now has the confidence to pursue her dream and teach others to pole dance.
June 16, 2012
CreateSpace Featured Author Theresa Ragan Talks Indie Publishing | Good E-Reader - ebook Reader and Digital Publishing News
CreateSpace Featured Author Theresa Ragan Talks Indie Publishing | Good E-Reader - ebook Reader and Digital Publishing News: Romance author Theresa Ragan, a featured author through the CreateSpace platform who also publishes her mystery and thriller titles under the name T. R. Ragan, spoke to GoodEReader at BookExpo America last week about how both options are ideally suited for self-published
The Amazon Effect | The Nation
The Amazon Effect | The Nation:
From the start, Jeff Bezos wanted to “get big fast.” He was never a “small is beautiful” kind of guy. The Brobdingnagian numbers tell much of the story. In 1994, four years after the first Internet browser was created, Bezos stumbled upon a startling statistic: the Internet had been growing at the rate of 2,300 percent annually. In 1995, the year Bezos, then 31,
From the start, Jeff Bezos wanted to “get big fast.” He was never a “small is beautiful” kind of guy. The Brobdingnagian numbers tell much of the story. In 1994, four years after the first Internet browser was created, Bezos stumbled upon a startling statistic: the Internet had been growing at the rate of 2,300 percent annually. In 1995, the year Bezos, then 31,
June 15, 2012
Asperger's no obstacle for young Kolkata inventor | TwoCircles.net
Asperger's no obstacle for young Kolkata inventor | TwoCircles.net: Kolkata : Asperger's syndrome has never been a disability for Shashank Agarwal. The 20-year-old has invented a light sensitive alarm to monitor tigers, a vertical-axis windmill that can withstand strong winds and an aeroponic structure to grow plants sans soil.
Now the teenager is going to New Zealand to do a degree in
Now the teenager is going to New Zealand to do a degree in
