Randy Stapilus's Blog, page 16
July 6, 2015
A new bio
The changes keep on coming around here.
I’ve added a new and more extensive bio page for myself, which I hope will mark the development of more such pages here for our authors. The idea is to offer a little more insight into the authors than we’ve given before.
Is it too much? This one started out like a memoir, and then I found it was getting out of hand in terms of length, and decided to wrap it. Suggestions and comments are welcome.
And for our other authors: Collect some material for use...
Why they went indie
One of the most pungent, entertaining and candid dialogues you may ever read between two indie writers, available in transcript, came in March 2011 between Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler, two science fiction novelists who were traditionally published before moving into self-publishing.
Both felt strongly about going indie.
How strongly?
Eisler confirmed he’d been offered a half-million dollars by a traditional publisher, and rejected it to self-publish instead. “I know it’ll seem crazy to a lo...
June 12, 2015
Lawrence Block going indie
A few months ago visiting CreateSpace I took special note of the promotion spot they’d included for a new indie CS author. The promos have been there for a long time, but this one startled me: It highlighted a writer I knew (through his books), one I’d been reading for more than three decades.
The highlighted novel was The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons, and the the writer, as you may have guessed, was Lawrence Block, a deeply experienced and solidly-selling author of about 50 mystery and ot...
June 8, 2015
Online changes
Time moves on. So do websites – at least, as to look & feel.
A couple of months ago, the status was something like this:
We had one main web site (www.ridenbaugh.com) which included in a crammed-in space an extensive blog (accessible through the front page back to 2005), information and pictures of most of our books and those by myself, special notices and offers and a bunch of other stuff.
It had some appeal (I liked it, and I gather a number of other people did), but it was getting tooth-l...
