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…but I didn’t make them. These are from a blog post called “My Lousy Stigma” by Pete Morin. Go there and read the whole thing. A few more examples are warranted. There is a stigma surrounding the game of golf, you know. So many players can’t break 100 and swing like broken windmills. Ruin it for Continue reading Some Excellent Points About the “Stigma” of Self-Publishing…  Amanda Hocking and cell phone service? How’s he going to tie those together? Walk down the main hallway of any regional shopping mall in the known universe, and forty-eleven people are going to leap out from behind their little kiosks and hard-sell you on cell phone service. “Steps right up, ladies and gentlemen! Get yer snake Continue reading Amanda Hocking, Cell Phone Service, and Decisions You’ve heard of “trunk novels,” right? That’s the novel every author supposedly has in a trunk somewhere, or the deepest, darkest bottom of a desk drawer. It’s the one that never got accepted, and never should have, and after about title #3 or so, the author begins to hope that it never sees print. What would
Continue reading The “Trunk POD” A week and a half or so ago, I stumbled across a free, open-source program called Sigil. (Don’t blame me for the fact that you have to be part geek to even figure out how to download it. It’s there, you just have to poke around a bit.) Anyway, Sigil is the final piece I’ve been waiting Continue reading Free Software: Sigil ePub Editor I saw a reference this morning to instantpublisher.com I couldn’t recall ever having heard of them, so (as I usually do when I first hear of company offering self-publishing services) I went to check them out. The very first thing I saw was this: And… that will be the last thing I see, too. Sorry, if you Continue reading Checking out the competition PLEASE NOTE: This is posted as part of a blog carnival. Please follow this link to Dun Scaith, the host blog for this carnival. I’ve said all of this before, but I’ll say it again. And again and again and again, no doubt. I’ll shout it from the rooftops until all the naysayers stop saying Continue reading Why I Chose Independent Publishing The ones I keep waiting for, watching for, hoping for? The ones who are going to lead the revolution into the great new era of publishing, when authors are treated as though they have some sense and some artistic merits of their own? The truth is, I don’t really want to self-publish. I just want to have the Continue reading Where ARE all those new publishers? Rule #1: Self-publishing is always a bad idea. Those seem to be the rules Harlequin, Thomas Nelson, Hay House, and who knows how many others are playing by now. “Self-publishing is stupid! Self-publishing is evil! Self-publishing is lazy! Self-publishers haven’t paid their dues! Wait, what? Money is Continue reading Tapping the Sugar Maple Read this: By self-publishing, I hope to liberate myself from two burdensome responsibilities—recouping the enormous, up-front costs of conventional publication and the necessity of earning large profits if I expect major houses to remain interested in my work. I’m seeking rational alternatives to the conventional routine of book promotion, an uninspired ritual that may garner 30 Continue reading Why John Edgar Wideman Self-Published There’s been another surge in the argument about self-publishing, and whether or not it is something that is worth pursuing. It seems to me that most of the arguments against self-publishing begin at the wrong place and proceed in the wrong direction. It has become extremely commonplace to hear people say that you just have to Continue reading Arguments Against Self-Publishing, Round N |
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