A panel at Digital Book World agrees with me. If you're going to indie-publish, the best genres to be in are romance, young adult, and new adult. My novels are new adult. Excellent.
We indie-pubbed authors are like lemmings, always running after one another using the same marketing tactics as everyone else. Well I intend to find a different road.
At World Fantasy Convention I learned that the publishing industry is in a state of flux and chaos and that even traditional publishing house editors are becoming excited about the possibilities of eBooks.
Agency pricing will encourage competition in publishing in the long run and help start up many new publisher who will produce good quality and fairly priced eBooks.
Kindle e-books are now outselling all formats of paper books (combined) in the Amazon.co.uk store. I guess I better get to work on UK promotion.
Final Cover for Apocalypse Revolution I've heard many traditionally published authors complain that the downside of having a contract with
Rumors of evil eBook authors abound at Ad-Astra. I debunk them, but I doubt I convinced anyone to drop their passion for the Big Six Publishers.
Ad-Astra seems to be very reluctant to use the word eBooks. Perhaps it's just style issue, but I'm worried that some of the anti-eBook sentiment that I sensed last year is still lingering around.
In the future, agents will simply troll through the Amazon Best Sellers Rank to find talent.
John and Me on the Same Page My first published shorts stories were in a small Canadian magazine called Storyteller--alas,