My take on the Guardian's claim that we're in a self-publishing bubble.
I would survive a Zombie Apocalypse. I know this because I took a test.
I had fun making a book trailer back in 1999 before Youtube and before anyone was making book trailers. It was a lot of fun, but it's very dated. Hey, it's 2012. 1999 is a long time ago.
Robert J. Sawyer wouldn't think much of my indie-published Vampire Novel if he knew it existed.
Why can we accept 99¢ music but we can't accept 99¢ novels? It's all about price expectation.
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.
Kodak waited far too long to truly embrace HD digital image capture, and the major publishers are waiting far too long before they will eventually be forced to truly embrace e-books rather than trying to sabotage them with high prices and lousy royalties.
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.