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Multiple Sales of Your Manuscript

 

Foreign Rights and translations into other languages can be a great way to leverage the value of your manuscript – but don’t expect big numbers right away.

Foreign rights belong to your book’s subsidiary rights.  Like any other sub-rights, such as audio, movies, book clubs, paperback reprints, electronic rights, foreign rights can be sold and separated from your book’s primary rights – which you totally own anyway as an independent author-publisher.
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Before you sign a contract: Always fir...

Pre-Editing Made Easy

Daphne Gray-Grant, a writing, and editing coach and author explained in an article: “When I started writing back in high school, I developed the nervous practice of producing a sentence and then going back to edit it, immediately.  Perhaps you do the same thing?  It took me 20 years to understand why editing-while-writing is so destructive – and another three years to stop it.”
“Remember, you should always write as quickly as you can.  Just be sure to edit – later when your manuscript is fin...

Pro’s & Con’s to Distribute eBooks via Pronoun

You might have read several articles in this blog about converting ebooks and distribution via aggregators, such as LightningSource, CreateSpace, IngramSpark. We also introduced Draft2Digital and the British eBookPartnership.

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Let’s Have a Look Today at PRONOUN
Created by Macmillan Publishing (one of the Big 5), Pronoun is a site which distributes your ebook to online retailers.  But not only that: Pronoun offers you to create a free landing page for yourself, including for each of your bo...

Author Discussions: Amazon’s New Buy Button

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Publisher’s Weekly alerted authors and publishers: “A new program from Amazon is drawing a range of reactions from those across the publishing industry, from fear to downright anger. The e-tailer has started allowing third-party book re-sellers to “win” “buy buttons” on book pages.  The program, publishers, agents, and authors allege, is discouraging customers from buying new books, negatively affecting sales and revenue.”
Interesting comments from authors and publishers on this site too.

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Literary Travel in North America and the UK

If you like reading, writing and traveling – these destinations are perfect for you:

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USA – Oregon Coast Children’s Book Writers Workshop
This is an intensive workshop for those who are not only passionate about children’s book writing but who dream of publishing their own children’s books
Starts: 2017-07-10
http://www.occbww.com/

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UK – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival, Harrowgate/Leeds
The world class, award winning Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, now in its 15th year...

Your Daily Writing Pleasure

Chipping Away at Rocks…

 

Not all writers can spend a lot of time typing away at a keyboard each day.  In fact, many would-be writers say, with absolute sincerity: “I’m just itching to get to this novel I’ve had in me for a while, but I have absolutely no time.”

Well, I’d like to claim that there is no such thing as no time at all.  You don’t have to have a lot of time, but you need to set aside a daily portion of it, however small, to write.

Even if you have little available time for writi...

13 Tips to Promote Your Crowd Funding Campaign

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The term “crowdfunding” means: You need a crowd to fund your idea.  And: supporters of your crowdfunding campaign are your (future) customers.  You also will get for FREE what industries have to pay for top $$$ when you are running a crowdfunding campaign: responses to your pledge proof the interest in your book or product.
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First Steps in Promotion
Plan well ahead to get a great start. According to Kickstarter’s own data: the vast bulk of backers seem to happen at the very beginning and...

Mystery Writers of America Welcome Indie Authors

If you are writing in your books about murder, robbery, white-collar crimes, drug- or people trafficking or financial fraud – then the Mystery Writers of America is the right organization to join!
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and other writer organizations, required in the past that authors be traditionally published, and even then, with approved publishers.  Since early 2017 even Mystery Writers of America opened their doors to indie authors.

 

This was never an issue i...

Trying to Game the Bestseller Lists?

Remember my article years ago? The Dark Site of Bestseller Lists. Or did you read Karen Ballum’s story: How Much Would You Pay to Be a Bestselling Author?

Since then the methods may have changed a bit, and some new, creative, money-sucking players came up, but in principle, it is the same game: Bestseller Manipulation.
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“New York Times, USA Today Bestseller status, it’s no big deal anymore, thanks to a handful of individuals who have figured out how to make a ton of cash and inflate sales n...

Stay for Free in a National Park to Write

Would you like to stay longer than for a day visit in one of the greatest US National Parks, writing a short story or working on your next novel – certainly paired with free accommodation?

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More than 50 National Parks feature Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programs. The National Parks Service’s Artist in Residence programs offer writers and other artists the opportunity to find inspiration in the great outdoors.
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Be an Artist-in-Residence
Whether you prefer the peaks of the Rockies or the sho...