I’m seeing a lot of people get wide-eyed and dumbstruck every time they find a self-publishing service that isn’t Amazon or Smashwords.
Here’s the truth: Amazon and Smashwords are currently the top two self-publishing services for eBooks. The majority of other services you see online are…
Going to look into this.
Wrote out my first query draft today. Tell me what you think!
A vampire and a butler are looking for a pizza parlor. No, this is a not a joke.
Evelyn is a harmless IT worker with a loving boyfriend and a relatively normal life, if you don’t count her history of car theft and comfort with…
If the answer is no that’s also okay, tumblrites. Back to the drawing board!
Musicians out there reading this may be smiling ruefully at this point, because they will recognize this sort of accounting; it’s how the music labels worked their accounting for years, carefully calibrating their fees and costs to make sure their musicians made as close to zero as possible while the labels kept all the money. But at least the musical labels paid their musicians an advance; Random House’s innovation here is that they aren’t even doing that.
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Pro-tip: It takes much, much longer than two weeks to get a book from the contract stage to the finished product on a bookstore’s shelf. I don’t care how “print-ready” you think your text file is, the whole damn thing still needs to be copyedited, proofread, and typeset in-house before we will even think of sending it to the printer.
eternalrulerofthesunrise said: How do things like 50Shades managed to get published in the first place? I’ve read a lot of shitty literature but that one really takes the cake…And no one takes my cake damn it.
It’s very simple, actually.
As I’ve said on this blog many, many times: …
Two incredible things have happened in the world of online publishing, one a tale of victory, the other a bitter defeat.
First, The Daily, a joint effort by News Corp. and Apple to prove the viability of news publications for the iPad, was shut down. When it launched to much fanfare in…
— A Younger, Stranger America: On Harry Houdini’s The Right Way to Do Wrong by Emily St. John Mandel (via millionsmillions)
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