News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #86….

Item: Refreshing and discouraging. The plethora of new indie authors and entertaining indie ebooks is both refreshing and discouraging. Discouraging because it’s harder with each passing week for a writer to rise above that vast sea of talent and become noticed. You can’t even give ebooks away anymore, at least not in the numbers seen a few years ago, and the new price points for indie ebooks are so low that an indie writer has to sell many of them just to recover costs—forget about making a...