Archive for the ‘publishing’ Category

It’s that time of year again, boys and girls, to take up the National Novel  Writing Month escapade. And for the first time, I will be doing “it.”
But with my own twist.
I’ve designed my own Query Challenge, actually started a few days ago.
Goal: Submit one query a day, and log my time, and my success [...]

According to MarketWatch.com’s probably press release verbatim: Barnes & Noble Launches PubIt!(TM), Easy-to-Use Digital Publishing Platform for Independent and Self-Publishers PubIt! Portal Now Available, Offering Expanded Distribution, Promotion and Protection of Independently and Self-Published Works
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS 15.87, -0.28, -1.73%) , the world’s largest bookseller, [...]

Over 1 million books were published last year.
Wow.
Did you add to that number? Will you be adding to that number this year or next?
Here’s the full Publisher’s Weekly article from last April by Jim Milliot. I only just discovered this little gem of data. (I was editing and producing one of my client’s books at [...]

Literary agent, Nathan Bransford’s weekly fun and raucous report of the week’s publishing news: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/10/this-week-in-publishing-10110.html
Upcoming San Francisco literary event: LitQuake, Oct. 1-9, 2010
“Local authors rumble through pubs, clubs and libraries for Litquake, once a way to get a few solitary writer types out of the house and now a nine-day rite of passage: [...]

More and more romance authors are independently publishing on the Kindle. I sat down with two women from the San Francisco Romance Writers of America chapter to uncover more about this phenomenon and discover their promotional secrets.

To get started on self-publishing on the Kindle, start here here: https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin
Their FAQ: http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/index.jspa
No, they don’t pay me.

The Monday, “What Is That?” Series today features SmashWords.com. The weekly “What Is That?” Series highlights new publishing technologies in the ever-changing publishing world, especially for independent novelists. Nonfiction authors will find much value in these tool, too.

Today, I’m instituting a new tradition here at Writer’s Fun Zone, and will list some of the best resources I’ve found on book marketing and publishing. Ideally, this will be a weekly post, but nature and the gods may have other ideas. For now, it’s an idea I’m rolling with…

Now — I haven’t tried Scribd yet… But I’m intrigued, mostly because of this story, “How One Author Is Using Scribd to Find Readers” by Jane Friedman. What do you think about Scribd?

Getting published is easy. Sure, with just a press of the button, you can now publish your content in a blog, a tweet, a Facebook profile update. That’s publishing. Yep! The world can now read your deep thoughts. But when most people think of publishing they think of BOOKS!

The rapid series of developments in the digital book space and my rising profile mean that I seem to be in an interview with a journalist just about every day. As I was yesterday.

Thanks to Outskirts Press for this information, taken from one of their sales letters. I don’t endorse Outskirts Press, nor have I worked with them. I do think however that this information presented below is valid. “There is a lot of confusion about self-publishing and print-on-demand. As you decide the best publishing path for you, I would like to clarify some misconceptions you may have heard.

It you’re a published novelists, I’d like to get your input for an article I’m writing for The National Networker and other venues. We all read in our genre, pay attention to what has recently sold via PublishersWeekly.com. What other strategies do you use to determine what will sell? Do tell! Email me directly by Sunday 11/8 and I will send you my questionnaire.Thanks! http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/

Often people think that getting published is about getting noticed. But actually getting published is about relationships, relationship with yourself and with your readers. Lots of readers.