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Category: Traditional Publishing

Generation Apocalypse

Why I Entered the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

by Michael Andre McPherson

Don’t ever enter the Amazon Break Through Novel Award if you’re prone to anxiety. The

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Traditional Publishing

James Patterson’s Attempt to Stop Change

by Michael Andre McPherson

I don’t necessarily believe that all change is good even though that’s the fashion these

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Traditional Publishing

Pixels of Skin Tone: Getting the Cover Art Right

by Michael Andre McPherson

World Fantasy Convention 2012, held in Toronto last year, emphasized cover art, and wow did

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Scams

Would I Take a Lousy Contract From Random House?

by Michael Andre McPherson

Authors are snobs. It’s about numbers and status. It’s about competition. There are so many

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Indie Publishing

Flux and Chaos at World Fantasy Convention

by Michael Andre McPherson

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.

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Agents

Is Self ePublishing in a Bubble?

by Michael Andre McPherson

My take on the Guardian’s claim that we’re in a self-publishing bubble.

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Vampire Road

Why I Chose Not to Get into a Fight at an SF Convention

by Michael Andre McPherson

Robert J. Sawyer wouldn’t think much of my indie-published Vampire Novel if he knew it existed.

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Traditional Publishing

Thank You Publishers for Agency Pricing

by Michael Andre McPherson

Publishers seemed determine to overprice their eBooks, a trend that makes me very happy.

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Traditional Publishing

99¢ Novels Versus 99¢ Music

by Michael Andre McPherson

Why can we accept 99¢ music but we can’t accept 99¢ novels? It’s all about price expectation.

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Traditional Publishing

EBook Sales “Only” Double Over Last Year

by Michael Andre McPherson

Publishers Market has a great newsletter for all of the industry gossip, but sometimes I wonder if they aren’t to happy with eBooks.

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