I’m becoming addicted to CrowVoice’s Report from the Mountain webcasts. Like the mountains themselves: pleasant, airy and down right cool. I have found myself waiting each week for the new installment.
I’m a fan of CrowVoice’s poetry to begin with so it isn’t much of a stretch, but couple it with some great jazz [...]

WordsToProfit.com is offering this great podcast interview with Mark Levine, author of The Fine Print of Self-Publishing: The Contracts & Services of 45 Self-Publishing Companies–Analyzed, Ranked and Exposed.
Mark has done a lot of research into subsidy publishers and compiled his findings into his book. In this interview he talks about how he ended up [...]

There is a reason I don’t have a “politics” category for my posts. It’s not that I’m not into politics – I truly and deeply am. But I don’t want my politics to get in the way of talking about books and publishing. Sometimes, mixing passions can be a dreadful idea.
I know [...]

Well, perhaps they do.
A couple years ago I launched a website called The RandomBookMachine (www.randombookmachine.com. I think it’s a pretty cool site. It was fun to build, and I designed the rating algorithm myself – pretty proud of that.
But the site hasn’t ever really gotten any traction. I get people stopping by [...]

A friend on mine, Angelo Solera, is in the process of publishing his first book under his own imprint. We have talked quite a bit about the steps he’s following as he is publishing, and I have been really impressed. I think he has a great book, and he seems to be doing [...]

While I am on the topic of Ron Pramschufer, and his SelfPublishing.com site, I would also like to point out what I generally think is one of the most generous gifts to self-publishers that I have yet seen.
Ron has, for some time now, been offering from his site two free ebooks: Publishing Basics, and [...]