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Self-publishing ain’t an easy road to walk. Oh, it’s sold that way. A lot of the self-publishing advice out there amounts to all the fucking wisdom of a Nike slogan: JUST DO IT, they say.
But doing the DIY-slash-indie-slash-micropub-slash-selfpub route is a path fraught with perils all its own — perils different from those encountered by the writer going the “other” way. And I’d like to talk about some of those perils here and now, both in order to make new writers aware of them and, further, to ideate some solutions for the aforementioned perils.
Self-Publishing Success
Writers often ask, “How do I get published?” But I don’t like to answer that question until I know what exactly they’re trying to publish. I’d say at least 50% of new writers are attempting to publish a work that would be deemed commercially unviable by a Big Six house, at least as initially conceived. 
It’s a debate that might span eternity: how much time should you devote to writing versus platform building? 
A twitter stream or a hardback tome: which makes you more of an author? Fifteen years ago, becoming an author meant following a fairly straightforward, established path. 1) write a book, 2) get an ...
Digital self-publishing has changed the way artists and creative industries reach their audiences. Prior to the explosion of the Internet, publishers and distributors controlled the marketing aspects of many of the creative ... 
Anyone can self-publish, but only those who take responsibility will succeed.
Here are 11 trends that will determine the few who get through the gate and find success: With each passing year, the prevalence of self publishing topics at writing conferences continues to grow. The 2012 San Francisco Writers Conference held true to that trend. 
Having emerged from a decade of bubbles in our economy, it may be natural to see some parallels between the self-publishing revolution and a new gold rush. There were a few early people striking the mother lode, a rush of excitement, and now it's off to the races. While traditional publishers hit hard times, self-publishing companies like Lulu and Amazon's CreateSpace are thriving. CNET's David Carnoy discusses the ins and outs. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on Fully Equipped. 
(1) take a passion of yours (2) e.g. customer service (3) give it a twist (4) e.g. customer service on a tight budget (5) get the title sorted (6) e.g. Outstanding Customer Service on the Tightest of Budgets for the... 
Analysis on the Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon situation—as well as the self-publishing "bubble" (with or without gatekeepers). 
by Melissa Foster and Amy Edelman for IndieReader.com Several predictions have stated that 2012 will be “The Year of the Indie Author”. After all, 2011 saw some awfully big moments.
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It’s OK to leave stuff out. You have to, because if you don’t, you’ll never get to the real story you want to tell. There are few things more obsessed over by writers than word count: required word count, in-progress word count, goal word count per day/week/month, words that were cut, words in the final version. 
Here are 3 of the best exercises or tasks you might undertake when thinking about your first page and how you can improve it before sending it to agents or editors. 
I’m writing this to mainly help one person’s request on formatting their book for publication on Kindle, but I’m hoping this might be useful to a few others as well. This will be a broad, basic, step by step process to try and catch most common formatting errors. Long as nothing’s completely bizarre with your Word file, this should get a nice, clean upload. Via Nathalie Hamidi 
Message from Pottermore: It’s the content, stupid 
There is this pervasive myth that real writers are these born geniuses who gush forth brilliance and never need to rewrite, revise or, sigh…start over. It is a LIE. Spring, the season of rebirth, is almost here. Why not start off your spring with the “birth” of your self-published book and go from hopeful writer to published author? Here are five r... 
Right now we're in the middle of a revolution. These are exciting times. It's easy to get caught up in the ebook/self-publishing momentum and spend all of your time thinking about how to publicize your books, or position them correctly, or decide which platforms to commit to. 
Traditional marketing does not sell books. Never has and never will. Don’t ask my opinion, mega-agent Donald Maass (and anyone working in publishing) will tell you that there are only TWO things that sell books… 
As writers, we can spend so much time “fleshing out” our characters as individuals that we forget about the connections between them. That’s why I love this piece by Yelizaveta P. Renfro that offers six concrete ways to think about your characters’ relationships. |
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