Sue Collier | February 23, 2011
Today, I’m happy to welcome guest blogger Adam Charles, director of www.iwritereadrate.com. He and I connected on Twitter (@iwritereadrate), and he offered to write an article on the digital revolution of books. I think you’ll enjoy reading this 20something’s perspective. I was sat in a bar a while ago talking with an old friend over [...]
Sue Collier | February 21, 2011
Here is some of what is happening in publishing right now… From Publishers Weekly: Borders pulls the trigger on Chapter 13 After a drawn out process that began at the end of last year when it missed payments to top publishers, Borders Group has given in to the inevitable and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy [...]
Sue Collier | February 14, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now: From Inside the Writers Studio: Interview with April Hamilton and Zoe Winters “Once looked down on as a path for the untalented, self-publishing (or independent/indie publishing) is becoming an increasingly more respectable way for authors to get their work into the public eye. Some have used it [...]
Sue Collier | February 10, 2011
Title: Get the Most Out of a Self-Publishing Company (Silver Sands Books, 978-0-9816617-7-3, $17.95) Author: Michael N. Marcus Back cover synopsis: It’s possible to get a high-class book, at a reasonable price – if you choose the right company, carefully check its work, maybe do some work yourself, and consider independent service providers such as editors [...]
Sue Collier | February 8, 2011
My team and I come across so many useful websites, I thought it would handy to put them together in a regular blog series. So once or twice a month, we list some of them here. If you have or know of a website that would be of interest to my blog readers, please email [...]
Sue Collier | February 7, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now: From Catherine, Caffeinated: E-Books: The tipping point “Ten months ago I uploaded Mousetrapped to Smashwords and what was then called Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) – now Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) – almost as an afterthought. “I was looking for something to do while I waited [...]
Sue Collier | February 2, 2011
Folks generally enjoy being helpful. You’re much more likely to get people to accommodate you if they know what you want. When my colleague Marilyn Ross launched the first edition of Jump Start Your Book Sales, she created the following checklist; it was enclosed with every individual copy of Jump Start that was shipped out. [...]
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