Why can we accept 99¢ music but we can’t accept 99¢ novels? It’s all about price expectation.
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William Deverell went down the self-publishing road for Kill All the Lawyers. This may be the first of many self-pubbed Deverell books, and publishers should be watching.
And I didn’t even have to get arrested to make that happen. Membership has it privileges, and for years I’ve been a member of the Crime Writers of Canada, ever since my editor at Storyteller Magazine (alas, gone now–the magazine, not my editor) told me I should join.
Author Barry Eisler shocked the publishing world when he walked away from a $500,000 deal with St. Martin’s Press so that he could self-e-publish his next John Rain novel.
But speaking of published: the second story I ever had published, Beer Truck, is now available for Kindle. Take it for a spin, but keep in mind that the story is about people doing very dumb things, taking chances so huge that a Darwin award is but one slippery grip away. Don’t try this at home.
The last thing I wanted after a cramped plane flight was to line up at immigration so that I could get back into my own country, and luckily I was pushed to the front of the line by the security guard because of my Canadian passport. Membership has it’s privileges.
Less than a week after Barry Eilser walked away from a $500,000 dollar contract with St Martin’s Press so that he could self-publish his next novel, Amanda Hocking, the self-publishing star who has sold over 2 million copies of her e-books, has signed a seven figure deal with St. Martins for her next four novels.
I prefer not to simply publish links to other people’s content on this blog, but
Rebecca Senese and I shared a strange place in the history of Storyteller Magazine before we even met.