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March 4, 2015
Now this is a magazine of the future.
Indie Writers rejoice. Here is one of the many new zines out to get those gadget driven readers and save the short story. It pays writers too!
‘Cracked Eye’
‘Cracked Eye’ and magazines like it are the future of magazines and the saviour of the short story. The editorial team understand that ‘busy lives force us to squeeze our relaxation and entertainment into small pockets of personal downtime’ People need a different way to read and ‘Cracked Eye’ offers it. ‘Every issue of ‘Cracked Eye’ has ‘...
‘Cracked Eye’
‘Cracked Eye’ and magazines like it are the future of magazines and the saviour of the short story. The editorial team understand that ‘busy lives force us to squeeze our relaxation and entertainment into small pockets of personal downtime’ People need a different way to read and ‘Cracked Eye’ offers it. ‘Every issue of ‘Cracked Eye’ has ‘...
March 1, 2015
Start here, Indies, if you want to succeed in the Brave New Indie World.
When I started having to become a 'business person writer' and help to sell our Writer's Choice books I found the most useful collection of information, practical, doable, and easy to use at Book Marketing Tools, website: http://bookmarketingtools.com
Sign up for their free email newsletter and recieve helpful information like the following which is from their last email newsletter to me. They are a real boon to the Indies. Thank you, Shawn and R.J.
• eBook Submission Tool - If you have run a...
Sign up for their free email newsletter and recieve helpful information like the following which is from their last email newsletter to me. They are a real boon to the Indies. Thank you, Shawn and R.J.
• eBook Submission Tool - If you have run a...
January 29, 2015
Hah! Read this Indies and cheer.
Author Earnings.com is doing a great job in dispelling the myths put out by the traditionalists about e-book earnings. If you haven't met them before go and read all their reports. They will cheer up any Indie author. The road to making us respectable as 'Real Writers' with good books is made shorter with people like these to present facts and back them up.
Here is a short extract. Please go to their website and read the rest.
The January 2015 Report
This time around, we measured the size of the...
Here is a short extract. Please go to their website and read the rest.
The January 2015 Report
This time around, we measured the size of the...
How to time your book promos to create the perfect campaign
How to time your book promos to create the perfect campaign
Readers in the Know - www.readersintheknow.com - is proving a very helpful site for Indies.
Not long ago Simon ran articles on a sales campaign and then analysed it to show what succeeded. Very helpful.
Now here's another useful article for Indies. Last week Simon presented a list of good book promo sites as determined by the campaign.
Go and read them if you want to be part of the successful Brave New World of Indies! Any knowledge abo...
Readers in the Know - www.readersintheknow.com - is proving a very helpful site for Indies.
Not long ago Simon ran articles on a sales campaign and then analysed it to show what succeeded. Very helpful.
Now here's another useful article for Indies. Last week Simon presented a list of good book promo sites as determined by the campaign.
Go and read them if you want to be part of the successful Brave New World of Indies! Any knowledge abo...
January 12, 2015
A Good Start for the Indie publisher/author in the New Year
Oh cheers.
Here is encouragement for Indie novelists. The new world many be tough but look at these figures garnered from British sources.
'Self-publishing and Ebooks on the rise
What the 2013 figures do show is that self-publishing in both ebook and paper book formats is really taking off. Paperback sales through Lulu rose 38% and CreateSpace sales were up a massive 161%. This is bound to send shivers of fear through the boardrooms of the publishing industry. Half of all book sales (both tradit...
Here is encouragement for Indie novelists. The new world many be tough but look at these figures garnered from British sources.
'Self-publishing and Ebooks on the rise
What the 2013 figures do show is that self-publishing in both ebook and paper book formats is really taking off. Paperback sales through Lulu rose 38% and CreateSpace sales were up a massive 161%. This is bound to send shivers of fear through the boardrooms of the publishing industry. Half of all book sales (both tradit...
December 11, 2014
And here's a novelist making his mark in the Brave New World
It seems to me that we Indies should help each other. Here's a lovely Goodreads review which Donald Platt received for his fascinating new novel.
I am glad to puff it off for him here and hope other readers who like serious historical novels which are well told and tell a good story might read it.
REVIEW of Bodo the Apostate by Donald M. Platt
Donald is a fabulous technical and historical writer overall, but Bodo the Apostate (his newest novel) is nothing short of his best work all the way aroun...
December 10, 2014
BRAVE NEW NOVELIST'S WORLD.
If you are an Indie writer struggling to make sense of the Brave New World of the novelist then you soon find that some people help and others don't!
As I wade through the swamps of 'Buy this package we guarantee will sell your novel.' and into the thorny thickets of self-help I have found that there is a lot of sensible common-sense provide by www.indiesunlimited. Definitely a place Indies should spend time at reading all those helpful articles.
Another useful site, although they do sell you...
As I wade through the swamps of 'Buy this package we guarantee will sell your novel.' and into the thorny thickets of self-help I have found that there is a lot of sensible common-sense provide by www.indiesunlimited. Definitely a place Indies should spend time at reading all those helpful articles.
Another useful site, although they do sell you...
November 20, 2014
THE EXTINCTION OF THE NOVELIST
Who would be a writer? Everyone it seems to me. I never liked statistics. The ones from Amazon I really hate. And try this one! Bowker’s Books in Print, 2012, listed 32 million active titles in the English language. Then look at Amazon’s statistics. Amazon alone has (mid 2014 figures) 3.4 million books in Kindle. What is truly scary is the fact that over one year Kindle releases 2,800 books every day. Yes, that was day, not week or month. That’s a million Kindle books a year.
How can you, a w...
October 2, 2014
Seems to me that no one knows the basics of presentation ...
Seems to me that no one knows the basics of presentation any more. It's about time it was taught to all business people and those people who put themselves on public display.
Recently I have been receiving phone calls from businesses looking for customers, and from the bank. Each time I answer the phone with a polite Good morning/afternoon or Good day.
Without fail the response is "I want to speak to Patricia." Well, my name is not Patricia, it was, until I changed it legally, a bloomin' pain o...
Recently I have been receiving phone calls from businesses looking for customers, and from the bank. Each time I answer the phone with a polite Good morning/afternoon or Good day.
Without fail the response is "I want to speak to Patricia." Well, my name is not Patricia, it was, until I changed it legally, a bloomin' pain o...
September 26, 2014
Some friendly advice for a writer's pals.
One of the magazines I enjoy is 'Seizure'. Australian, stroppy and funny the editors send out a great newsletter.
Their novella competition is now open http://seizureonline.com/projects/
In a recent Agony Aunt column Auntie dealt with a subject dear to all writers' hearts, advice for the friendly fan. It's great stuff and well worth a read. As one whose near family live thousands of miles away and whose blood relatives are bloody awful I lack that circle of rellies who might support my novels....
Their novella competition is now open http://seizureonline.com/projects/
In a recent Agony Aunt column Auntie dealt with a subject dear to all writers' hearts, advice for the friendly fan. It's great stuff and well worth a read. As one whose near family live thousands of miles away and whose blood relatives are bloody awful I lack that circle of rellies who might support my novels....
