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, [...]

Here’s another chapter in the saga of Vox Pop — our attempts to expand our bookstore/cafe/publishing empire. Enjoy! — Andy Laties

Chapter 4
When he released me from his embrace, Shelly Drobny reached into the air, strained upwards with his fingers, grasped something invisible, and shouted, “You’ve got the brass ring!”
The plan was a million dollars to [...]

Here’s something that showed up in my inbox that looks like a fun and important read:

COMING IN DECEMBERSelf-Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive StruggleBy Mickey ZRadicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there’s [...]

That seems to be the question I’m being forced to ask myself.Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer yet another techie, time-eating attempt at book promotionOr to take arms ‘gainst a sea of silliness and by going offline, end it.
In the last few days (my apologies if you were hoping for more mangled Shakespeare), [...]

Here’s another installment from my forthcoming book. (I won’t post every chapter, only occassional ones.)
VoxPop, Sander and Me — Chapter 3
“Fifty thousand in cash! Fifty thousand in cash to launch your new indie bookstore! Get your free fifty thousand!” I was passing out translucent envelopes containing banknotes, stickers and silver coins to attendees strolling the [...]

Not only is this an inspiring post about bookselling, and the beginning of what promises to a very interesting blog, but they give a shout out to our own Andy Laties!
Definitely worth a read:
Why Did We Quit Our Cushy Corporate Jobs to Reinvent Independent Bookselling?
And the money quote:
What was the deal with the rude, arrogant, [...]

The New York Times features an article about the New York Art Bookfair today, and the display table where I’ve been working at the fair is in the lead photograph!
“World War 3 Illustrated Magazine” is the exemplar of the many books at the fair which are not to be found on the Kindle, [...]

I love the concept. I don’t know how much they help to sell books, but with most people being so visually and technologically oriented these days, it can’t hurt. I made one for The Moon Cracks Open and posted it on YouTube, soon after, I found an entire web site, Blazing Trailers, devoted to them [...]

I think I have a new hero. His name is Christopher Herz, from Canal Publishing and his book is The Last Block in Harlem.

This guy takes indie/guerrilla marketing to absolute new heights. What he does is called “handselling,” and that in-and-of itself is nothing new. As the name implies, it’s basically making sales [...]

I am an active user of Amazon.com’s author-promotion mechanisms. I have an author-blog on my book’s Amazon page, I submitted my book so it’s searchable on Amazon, I have submitted a review written by an independent reviewer for display on my book’s Amazon page. So far so good. However: the book I’m pitching is among [...]