From Nick Mamatas: Here’s a secret. This is what creative writers should be interested in doing. Writing their own best material. Not the most popular thing, or the most acclaimed, or that which will be part of some conversation or leave a mark on this or that genre (including bourgeois realism), but that stuff that [...]
At some point over the weekend — Saturday evening, thereabouts — I sold my 10,000th ebook for the year on Kindle and Nook (Smashwords and Sony and iBooks brought in a handful more). That doesn’t count the over 30,000 free downloads earlier this year for The Silver Ring, either. Is that a big accomplishment? Well, [...]
Q.R. Markham — aka Quentin Rowan (aka The Guy Who Plagiarized That Spy Book) — has written a, well, essay(?) about the whole fiasco that occurred over the past few weeks. The piece, entitled “Confessions of a Plagiarist,” is published at a website called The Fix. What is The Fix? Well, according to the website’s subtitle, it [...]
Joe Konrath let me ramble on his blog today on the real reason behind why I decided to start self-publishing (but regular readers of this blog already know most of the story). Also Kristine Kathryn Rusch has an excellent post about how traditional publishers are making money (hint: not paying the writers near enough). Here’s an [...]
I took a little break from blogging this week. Not something I had planned to do so much as just I didn’t feel like blogging. Sometimes it becomes exhausting trying to come up with new material to entertain you people. And truthfully, because of incoming links and whatnot, traffic to my blog stayed pretty consistent, [...]
From today’s New York Times: In 2010 Ms. Davenport signed with Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin, for “The Chinese Soldier’s Daughter,” a Civil War love story. She received a $20,000 advance for the book, which was supposed to come out next summer. If writers have one message drilled into them these days, it is this: [...]
Last week HarperCollins announced that they were making over 5,000 of their backlist books available only as print on demand. According to the corporate press release from Brian Murray, the President and CEO: As a publisher, it is our vision to make every HarperCollins book available to consumers in stores for immediate purchase – either [...]
So there was this survey recently that states “One in Six Americans Now Use E-Reader with One in Six Likely to Purchase in Next Six Months.” That’s promising, right? Well, yes and no. Don’t get me wrong, I would love it if that statement was one hundred percent accurate, but I find myself often distrusting surveys. After [...]
