There's a shift going on in publishing that publishers and agents should be discussing over their lattes in the boardrooms of Manhattan.
Sometimes little birds speak to me at this blog. The latest nugget that dropped in my lap concerns the Writers Union of Canada, a great organization that provides its members with contract advice and more.
Promoting a novel through give-aways is a great idea, and with e-books it's relatively inexpensive, but I learned a lesson recently.
It's the wild west in e-publishing, and everyone is striving to find a niche. I know this, yet I was surprised today when an e-mail arrived this morning from XinXii.com asking me to post me e-book with them for sale in Germany.
I've waded through the Smashwords Style Guide and come out the other side, humbled and wiser.
There are dozens of paths that will take your novel from a computer to Kindle, and the route will largely depend on the current file format of the work. We're going to start with the most common for indie authors: a Microsoft Word document.
Amanda Hocking, the indie e-pubbed bestseller, credits book bloggers for taking her from a minimum wage dead end job to millions of books sold through Amazon and Smashwords.
I was checking my sales report on Amazon to see if my efforts at Bloody Words had produced a bump, but what caught my attention was a new report button for sales at Amazon.uk
I'm at the Bloody Words Mystery Convention this weekend in lovely Victoria, and I've been surprised at how many authors, both newbies and established, have come to me asking about how to format and publish their e-books for Kindle and other platforms.
Amazon just gets faster everyday. Vampire Road is already available in the e-book store.