Sue Collier | October 22, 2010
Virtual book tours continue to grow in popularity with authors. From the comfort of their own computers, authors can tour the world, saving time and money while reaching a potentially large audience. Bloggers benefit as well since tours can drive new traffic to their sites. If you’d like to host a virtual author book tour [...]
Sue Collier | October 20, 2010
This is another installment from our series 11 Questions for the Indie Publisher. This time we are featuring indie author Lillian Brummet. Please let me know if you would like to be featured! Your name: Lillian Brummet Your website/blog: www.brummet.ca; http://consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com Your bibliography: Lillian Brummet is the co-author of the books Trash Talk and Purple Snowflake [...]
Sue Collier | September 30, 2010
This is another installment from our series 11 Questions for the Indie Publisher. This time we are featuring indie author Zoe Winters. Please let me know if you would like to be featured! Your name: Zoe Winters Your website/blog: http://www.zoewinters.org http://zoewinters.wordpress.com Your bibliography: Zoe Winters writes and publishes paranormal romances. Her independently published work includes three [...]
Sue Collier | September 8, 2010
We’ve recently started a new internship program at Self-Publishing Resources. I was lucky enough to get a great response from an ad I posted with the Denver Publishing Institute, and I’ve got a couple of young people (I know, that makes me sound really old — but hey, I am!) starting with us. I had [...]
Sue Collier | August 24, 2010
The buzz around the blogosphere is all about Seth Godin and his claim that he is finished with traditional publishing. (If you don’t know who Seth Godin is, well, get out from under that rock! Then read his bio here; basically he is a hugely influential marketer with a popular blog. He’s traditionally published lots [...]
Sue Collier | July 26, 2010
Guest blogger: Fiona Ingram I live in South Africa and I am published in the USA. Distance has made it impossible for me to go the traditional marketing route. Online is all I have open to me. I have worked very hard to go from “Fiona Who?” to not quite “Aha, Fiona Ingram, the famous [...]
Sue Collier | June 30, 2010
So I read a post on self-publishing over a Kidlit today. I’ve commented there, but I couldn’t resist more pontificating. I’ll start by saying that I am not the average person who has no idea what lurks in slush. I spent many years in the trade, going through those very awful slush piles that blogger [...]
Sue Collier | June 15, 2010
Guest blogger: Scott Appleton Note to readers: I connected with Scott on another blog and was impressed with his self-publishing success. I hope you enjoy his post–and I do think you will learn a thing or two from his determination and perseverence! When I finished writing a fantasy manuscript, I had little to no knowledge [...]
Sue Collier | June 7, 2010
(Cross-posted at the Writer’s Digest website.) What message do you find yourself repeating over and over to writers? Sue: The difference between true self-publishing and the so-called “self-publishing companies”—and why that difference is so important for authors to understand. Marilyn: Marketing. Marketing. Marketing. It’s mandatory in today’s publishing environment to be proactive and get behind [...]
Sue Collier | May 28, 2010
When I first read this article by Garrison Keillor, I kind of chuckled to myself—I mean, how seriously can I take the opinion of modern publishing from the dude who hales from the (albeit fictitious) “little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.” Obviously, he would prefer that the publishing world stay just [...]
