The Week in Publishing (October 17 to October 23)

Sue Collier | October 24, 2011

Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Publetariat: There’s Something Odd About Self-Publishing Books Here’s something that’s mystified me for a long time: Most books about self-publishing look a lot worse than they ought to. I’ve often said that it doesn’t cost any more to produce a good-looking book than it [...]

Guest post: What the heck is SEO (and how can it help authors sell more books)? Part two

Sue Collier | October 21, 2011

I’m really excited to welcome back guest blogger, Lindsay Buroker, for part two of her article on SEO. Thanks to epublishing, Lindsay is a full-time indie author and she’s also starting a self-publishing blog. She has been writing fantasy novels and short stories since she was seven. She’s been finishing them since… well, that’s a [...]

Guest post: What the heck is SEO (and how can it help authors sell more books)? Part one

Sue Collier | October 20, 2011

I’m really excited to introduce guest blogger, Lindsay Buroker, who will explain SEO for authors. Thanks to epublishing, Lindsay is a full-time indie author and she’s also starting a self-publishing blog. She has been writing fantasy novels and short stories since she was seven. She’s been finishing them since… well, that’s a more recent development. [...]

The Week in Publishing (October 10 to October 16)

Sue Collier | October 16, 2011

Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Jane Friedman: The Evolving Model of the Entrepreneurial Novelist It’s pleasure to bring you this insightful Q&A with writer Sean Platt. As his own website states, Sean Platt writes it all. He writes copy, websites, books, and has most recently developed a new epic thriller [...]

The Week in Publishing (October 3 to October 9)

Sue Collier | October 9, 2011

Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Whatever: Writer Beware at “The Write Agenda” Many of you are aware of Writer Beware, the fantastic resource spearheaded by Victoria Strauss and Ann Crispin (and supported by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, among other groups), which researches, documents and informs [...]

Webtips for authors and self-publishers

Sue Collier | October 9, 2011

My team and I come across so many useful websites, I thought it would be handy to put them together in a regular blog series. So a couple times a month, I’ll be listing a few of them here. If you have or know of a website that would be of interest to my blog [...]

The week in publishing (September 26 to October 2)

Sue Collier | October 2, 2011

Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Publisher’s Lunch: Palin Accuses McGinniss of Defamation and “May” File Claim Sarah Palin’s Anchorage attorney has written to Crown, saying that Joe McGinniss’s book THE ROGUE “defamed” the Palins and that both the publisher and author “clearly knew the statements were false [and] admitted [...]