Ady Hall.
Jack of no trades
I started along the self publishing route with the idea to gain some understanding of the publishing industry (or at least the business model for publishing). Tee hee - how naive! The ‘getting the books printed into a physical thing’ is a simple enough process. Publishing is a whole other beast entirely! Still, I was [...]
A great time for all booksellers - despite the glut of books released - only 5% of which will see the light of a Waterstones shelf front.
A particular marketing push required for the impulse purchase of a book - or an e-book - especially for the e-books that are priced sensibly ($3 or less) with [...]
Feng Shui Assassin is available on the Kindle. Oh boy. A very big thank you to Andrew (friend of Quirkster) for his hard work in setting up the Amazon account stateside and allowing me to upload the thing for our American believers.
Next step was to give a little introduction and promotion on a couple of [...]
Is Boxing Day one great pun? Anyhoo - an excellent article on Cnet details 25 things you need to know about self-publishing a book. I guess it’s everything that this blog should be - and a good summation of everything I hope to capture by the end of this blog (yeah - a blog with [...]
So - I have the final answer from booksurge for a print-ready book to be published-on-demand - $299 (plus their 35% royalties). Ouch.
After a couple of emails bouncing back and forth between their rep and myself - as they tried to ply me with editing services (already done and paid for), book cover service (already [...]
Final sign off to the manuscript - and sent to Biddles for printing. Now begins the hard work (well - not quite yet). Work is snowballing so am due to get sidetracked - but the main drive for the next year or so will be a spot of marketing - both on and off line.
Am [...]
An excellent article on self publishing, peoples reactions to a self published book and the expectations for a self published author at slushpile.net - which, although posted over two years ago - still garners comments!
This is great to see that an interesting and informative post can still hang around in bookmarks and search engine queries [...]
An interesting article from an author explaining the realities of payment and earning from your book writing - even when you are a successful author with a number of books on the shelves. Jeaniene Frost details at length the myth to the realities - a good job of managing a potential authors expectations.
I have seen [...]