Why Authors Need You to Buy Lots & Lots of Books or, Why Most of Us Don't Quit Our Day Jobs, or, What is this Thing Called Royalties? a most Excellent Explanation & Analysis by Mr. Barry Lyga, which I urge everyone who wants to understand the publishing business to read.
...publisher. Their revenue with the self-publishingroute would be 0.175 N ... revenue with authors, making the self-publishing route even more attractive. On the ... will do to the head of publishing is what they will do to ... find out for themselves by self-publishing, promoting their work on Facebook and ...numbers, including Kindle royalties and self-publishing revenues. His calculations are similar to ...
... have to draw back. And frankly, I have this thing about Publishing Darwinism. For the people who are insisting that vanity publishing * is a viable alternative and that we traditionally published folks are all elitist ... Kane and Jackie Kessler .) * And for the record, vanity publishing and self publishing are not the same. A lot of other people ...
For my sins (and because I really do buy into the "pay forward" theory) I've volunteered* to work with the incoming non-member queries about how to [fill in the blank] with regard to publishing/writing. Many of the queries run along the lines of "how do I become a successful writer?" Verbatim. *is flummoxed* I can tell someone where to go for information on agents, and manuscript formatting, ...
...for consistency, grammar and spelling. 10:30 PM, a little past the front gate of the Varia Publishing Company. "I am here on business ." The last word was punctuated by a one-two from a...Xanxus, heading for the latter's office. He was intimately familiar with the layout of the Varia PublishingHouse's main building. Call it a professional interest. "It has been years since I have needed...
Another hat I wear is Executive Editor over at the review site ASif! . In this role, I get posted review copies by publishers requesting reviews of upcomingbooks, I sort out the assignments amongst the reviewers (reviewers choose their own books and they manage their own workloads) and I mail the books out to them. I like to see all the books coming out soon and that I could be reading, if, ...
On Monday evening, I attended the annual SFWA Authors & Editors Reception at the Planet Hollywood in Times Square. Very different from the usual location at the Society of Illustrators. I like the open floor plan of the place, as well as generous and comfortable seating areas. However, the ceilings are very low, and the noise level can get pretty loud. I spent most of the evening chatting and ...
Me, before the party opening my gift from Sara. This awesome coffin purse.
Dave and Tonya after we got together for lunch the day aftermy birthday.
H and I after that same lunch. I am wearing my Voltaire Key and My brand new Where the Wild Things Are necklace.
This is Jim, a ...
Part 1: What Harlequin Horizons Is, and Why It's Not a Good Idea Part 2: The SFWA Weighs In Part 3: Standards or Double Standards? From the Writer Beware blog (whose website can be found here ): Harlequin Horizons is no longer Harlequin Horizons. It's not even being called Horizons anymore. Now it's DellArte Press.
