So… I got this email, which wrapped up with this question: I’ve been in contact with Christian faith publishing the past year but haven’t submitted my manuscript because I recently finished writing, reading and editing it, & wanted to know more info before doing so. They have finally informed me of production costs if my manuscript were chosen for publishing. It’s a little … Continue reading →
Tom Vetter holds the #11 spot this morning in Adventures and Discoveries World History on Amazon’s Bestseller List! The book jumped significantly overnight, from the high 300,000s overall to 28,289 right now, and he’s sold most of his first editions. The author’s page with first editions is here: http://www.tomvetterbooks.com/i-read-from-30000-leagues-undersea-authors-intro/ The book on Amazon is here: http://www.amazon.com/000-Leagues-Undersea-Submariner-Submergence-ebook/dp/B00VERWICQ/ … Continue reading →
With thanks to Jerry Pournelle for posting this link: http://authorearnings.com/reports/ Across websites and genres, indie authors are doing better—and in MANY cases are doing better than Big-5-published authors. It’s true for me. Nice to know it’s true for a bunch of my fellow writers, too. … Continue reading →
Back at the end of June, 2011, I read a book that succeeded because of a lie, and I turned my entire life upside down as a result of that lie. The book was, of course, John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million Ebooks in 5 Months. Like a lot of other writers, I let myself be suckered in. I … Continue reading →
I and other indie publishers received notice from Apple that the company has changed the way it deals with indie publishers. To better serve your needs, English-language phone support is now available to iBookstore publishers. With this new option, we now offer four ways to get answers to your questions: The Book Forum is a community-based, collaborative environment to find … Continue reading →
Decision Made: Thank you to everyone who commented. BEFORE I START: I’m going to ask for reader input ONLY from Mac product users who buy books from iBooks. If you don’t have a dog in this fight, then no matter what you think about the ethics of this situation, I don’t need to know. I am going to make a … Continue reading →
I’m trying to keep up with what’s going on in indie publishing, and I realized there are a lot of folks, both readers and writers, who would be interested in taking a look at the same issues I’ve come across. The first thing I’ve come across is an issue of terminology. You may laugh at this, but I didn’t. When … Continue reading →
I started having headaches about halfway through last week. On Friday, they turned into migraines and icepick migraines. On Saturday, the vertigo returned, and the headaches stayed. I got a few hundred words written on Saturday and again on Sunday on WARPAINT, but did not do anything online. I’m working on LESSON 23 of the Self-Pub Expansion of HTTS today, … Continue reading →
First, I’ve decided to write a new afterword for every one of my books I reprint. One of the things I did last week. 😀 I had a lot of fun writing them, and got to talk about the experience of writing them, and then working with them again years later. I also got the entire Arhel Trilogy finished in … Continue reading →
Below is the start of an article that’s been a long time coming. After years of publishing my fiction through big commercial publishers, with thirty-two novels sold to the big New York houses as well as to international publishers around the planet, and more than a million books in print, I have decided to move to self-publishing my fiction. Why … Continue reading →
