An amateur is not someone who is merely new. An amateur is a mindset.
Category: Publishing
Apr 05 2016
Real Writers Don't Self-Publish—Part 2
NY is not going to give you (or me) a writing career. We have to hustle. Self-publishing actually has a lot of benefits not only for writers, but for traditional publishers as well.
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Jan 06 2016
Pay the Writer Part 2—Blood Diamonds & Fair Trade Fiction
I think consumers could change publishing if we let them. If we stopped assuming they didn’t care, that all they wanted was cheap books no matter the consequences.
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Jan 04 2016
Consumer Power, Author Responsibility & Why Book Reviews MATTER
Today we’re going to talk about reviews. I believe most folks have come to mistakenly assume that reviews are kind of this “extra” nicety that isn’t directly relevant to the author beyond ego and that’s patently false especially in the digital age where we writers live and die by algorithms.
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Dec 31 2015
The Ugly Truth of Publishing & How BEST to Support Writers
But today, dear newbies. I am going to take you on a tour behind the curtain. Also for those who are NOT newbies, feel free to pass this to family in a “Take Your Clueless Friends Who Think You Will Make a Million Dollars as Soon as You Publish Day.”
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