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 saw this over at Galleycat (which you are reading every day, right?) and I thought it was pretty clever.
It’s a name generator that you can use to create names for the novel I know you are working on. Need a name for a dragon? Chinese Restaurant? How about a “Trendy” [...]
Let me hereby announce my new favorite blog: BajillionHits.biz.
My favorite not only just because this stuff is really funny, and because blogger Alex Blagg totally gets the web biz industry, but because he has, thank God, deemed the saving of the suffering publishing industry worthy of his brilliant mind. Blagg is going to [...]
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 [...]
“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”
This brilliantly bad sentence written by Molly Ringle [...]
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 [...]
Tonight: DISTRIBUTION!
Tonight we are talking about Distribution. What is it, how it works – how it can work for indie books, and what are some alternatives. How has it changed over the past few years and in what direction is it going.
Here to talk about distribution with me tonight, Davida Breier.
Davida Breier is [...]
Thanks for tuning in tonight at http://umbrellaradio.org!
We are trying something different tonight… a bit of an experiment. We are devoting the interview portion of the show to AuthorsBookshop – what it is, what it’s about and how it can help you sell more books and make more money from the books you sell.
With me [...]
This looks awesome – if I weren’t already booked for saturday, I would definitely be there. You should go!
Baltimore’s Literary Cabaret
May 8th
From 7pm – midnight
At the G-spot
Join Baltimore writers, musicians, and artists for a fun-filled evening!
Flash readings of poetry and fiction
Fantastic music by Baltimore favorites
Meet area publishers and authors
Buy books signed by the authors
Great [...]
We are going to try something different this week. We are dedicating the whole show to AuthorsBookshop.com.
Those of you who have listened to the show for more than, say, 10 minutes know that I started AuthorsBookshop.com about 5 years ago. It is the primary sponsor of the show, and we have been doing a lot [...]
