BestsellerBound is a new forum created specifically for indie authors to share their books with other authors. Hang out with writers in your genera, and talk about your book, how you write/publish/market it – getting and giving tips that will likely help yourself and other in the indie pub journey.
If the site takes off, [...]
Think what you will about ebooks and electronic publishing (and it’s getting harder every week to be bearish on it,) people are buying ebooks, and publishers are making money off of them. For the first time ever, ebook sales outstripped hardcover sales last month, and the trend is only going to continue. Someday, [...]
I just ran across Bookazine. Great name, and I think they do something cool – I just can’t really tell what it is.
Their site, which also looks cool at first blush, seems to break every rule of good web design practice. It’s really hard to navigate, all the content seems to be in [...]
Are you a publisher? You know you’re suppose to be using the heck out of facebook, right? Not sure how? Need some inspiration?
The GalleyCat blog has done us a huge favor. They have listed what they consider to be the “Best Publisher Pages on Facebook.”
Stop over there and take [...]
I know I used to post what I called “Book Porn” a lot – gratuitous photos of books sure to make any book lover swoon – but this is not what I had in mind. I think this is fabulous though, and a great way to promote books and reading while taking the new [...]
Click this to see why kids should never ever ever be allowed any where near books.
Seriously, can’t they just play with rocks, or logs or something?
Ok, just kidding. Actually, this is why some people shouldn’t have kids. Note that the (awesome) parent is considering taping it back up and leaving it in the drop [...]
For the writers of you out there who desire to avoid trope and cliche’, this Slate article is well worth the read. Apparently, nearly every novel written in the English language in the past 100 years has a dog barking in the distance at some point.
Ok, maybe I exaggerate, but this breakdown of dogs [...]
This is a guest-post by author L.M.Preston, who’s Young Adult Sci Fi novel Explorer X-Alpha launched recently, and who’s next novel The Pack will be released soon.www.phenomenalonepress.com
Nano (National Novel Writing Month) from November 1st-30th. It’s the writing frenzy where you kick out a large number of words to hopefully finish a novel in record time. [...]
Irony has been a big deal for the past, say, 10 years. Or, longer even. Ironic t-shirts and trucker hats and debates over whether something is or is not ironic are familiar to most of us.
But it gets a little confusing, doesn’t it? What is irony? When and how do you [...]
Here is a video of a speech by IndieBookMan hero Richard Nash. If you care about writing or publishing at all, you must must must watch this.



