I’m learning that folks publish books for a myriad of reasons. And, I’ve come to appreciate the beauty in the notion that I don’t have to be interested in the subject to love the product. Michelle Antoinette Nelson offers an excellent example of how understanding the vision can translate in to effectively producing [...]

I don’t know. What I do know is that I recently purchased a copy Bomb the Suburbs; whether for the sake of a certain “pre-family life” nostalgia or the fact that I enjoyed the read. I guess, as with everything else in the world of indie publishing, time will tell.
…Soft Skull goes west.
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I had yet another ‘Men of a Certain Age’ moment in a great conversation last night with the IndieBookman himself, Brad Grochowski.  We spent a good portion of the time discussing how coincidentally depressing & exciting the world of Independent Publishing is right now.  In a wierd bass-akward sort of way I happened across a moment of [...]

I would submit that if one is a writer he is also an activist.  The idea that a person is called to translate his thoughts onto the page speaks to the fact that there is some manner of passionate movement within him.  In this notion, I don’t believe that the genre in which one writes matters.  What [...]

Even if 99% of self-published titles are crap, that still leaves a ton of quality  ’indie’ work to be read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02FOB-medium-t.html

I will not develop a 1 minute elevator speech to sell my book—I will speak passionately about its content at any given opportunity
I will not expend an iota of energy seeking to have my book shelved in a traditional “brick & mortar” bookstore—I will go out of my way to make myself available to any [...]