Tag Archives: epublishing

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I totally don't blame Scalzi for being sick of the arguments for self/digital publishing. I self/digital publish and I'm sick of the evangelizing, too. (Because most of the arguments are just shitty logic.) HOWEVER. There's another side of the Electronic Read more [...]

I’ve been published!!!

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Like, by somebody else. (Inorite?) So Freya's Bower (one of the veteran epublishers in the landscape) has this annual anthology called Dreams and Desires, where the proceeds from it go to a charity. This year's charity is A Window Between Worlds, a Read more [...]

Free agency

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Mormon publishing is a small world, but since I only hover on the outskirts of the community as a fiction writer who is Mormon and not as a writer of Mormon fiction (albeit I have Mormon characters), I don't have much invested in the state of the Mormon Read more [...]

I got your suggestions right here.

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The Pareto Principle. Also known as the 80/20 rule, wherein 80% of sales are generated by 20% of the customers. When applied to the way publishing gambles on blockbusters to subsidize its titles that lose money, it might be more or less 20% of the authors Read more [...]

My editor likes me!

The Bewbies(TM) appear in the Apple store.

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Finally! After six months, unceasing wailing, and a solid refusal to censor myself, The Proviso was finally approved for sale as an application in the Apple iTunes store. Go get it! (Now I don't feel hypocritical by naming iPhone names in Stay, because, Read more [...]

PSA for LDS publishers

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Y'all probably don't read my blog. I curse muchly and there is "sex" in my banner, not to mention a bare nekkid lady. Before you read any further (if you are still reading or the least bit interested), please go to these websites and study them. Ignore Read more [...]

Writers: Accept it and keep going. Or not.

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Keep your day job. Accept that you will not be able to quit your day job. Regardless how much weeping and wailing and gnashing of the teeth goes on around the web about monetizing art, if you're a writer not already pulling income that allows writing Read more [...]

Guest blogging and Tools of Change

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I'm over at Publishing Renaissance today, blogging part 3 about how The Bewbies came into existence; in case you missed them, see part 1 and part 2, too! . April Hamilton, independent publishing crusader extraordinary, built a new site called Publetariat, Read more [...]

Are authors like journals?

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NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of several posts David Nygren of The Urban Elitist and I will be cross-blogging concerning the issue of authors (whether traditionally published, e-published, or self-published) actually getting paid for their work. Yesterday Read more [...]

e-Vangelism

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Usually I wouldn't just straight-link someone else's piece without using it as a springboard for something I want to say, but Jane said pretty much all there needs to be said. Oh, except, use a common format like, oh, say EPUB. To commenter Steve Davidson Read more [...]

Li’l ol’ me?

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I'm over at SmashWords blog today, hanging out with SmashWords founder Mark Coker. C'mon over, pull up a chair and we'll make a drinking game out of the occurrence of the words "indie," "traditional," and "NY." Oh, wait. I don't drink. Mountain Dew, Read more [...]

The forbidden Apple

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So let's try this again and I will make myself very clear: I'm seriously pissed. Apple rejected my book from its iApp store on the basis that it has the F-word. Now, I'm sorry, but the fact that the F-word is in my book is the least of its crimes (they Read more [...]

Creating e-books: Gather your “materials”

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I want to make something very clear. What I'm doing is giving you the tools to create e-books from scratch with very little money and not a lot of automation. There's a reason for this: When you learn it this way, you learn principles you can carry Read more [...]

Creating e-books: The easy way

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I AM AGAINST DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM). ANY VENDOR I RECOMMEND WILL SHARE THIS STANCE AND ANY INSTRUCTIONS I GIVE WILL IGNORE ANY POSSIBILITY FOR ENCRYPTION. IF YOU WANT TO LOCK UP YOUR WORK, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF. In my last episode, I instructed Read more [...]