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 [...]

For the entire article, go to Malcolm Gladwell here.
Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. [...]

Hot on the heels of his Nobel Peace Prize win, it has been anounced that U.S. President Barak Obama is slated to win France’s Tour de France bycicle race. This honor will continue his string of life accomplishments, but is not expected to be then end.

“I’m really honored, of course, by the announcement of [...]

Oh. I forgot to mention yesterday. In case you hadn’t heard. Amazon announced that the Kindle is going international. Except Canada. Sorry Canada – you still have to read your books on paper.

This is no joke. I just received this from Cory Doctorow, who just received it himself from a schoolteacher in Detroit. This is a fabulous idea so I’m reposting Cory’s entire message and the teacher’s email address for those authors and publishers who want to participate:
Back in August [writes Cory], I got a surprise in [...]

A brand new site just launched that may be of interest to you.
The Self-pub Scrub, aka SelfPubScrub.com promises to “scrub the entire Internet, looking for every piece of information we can find about self-publishing.”
Items that are found are cataloged, listed and searchable, and you can order them by a few key words. At launch, [...]

This past week I was interviewed by Irene Watson and Victor Volkman of AuthorsAccess.com. The topic was Selling Books Successfully Online and they pretty much gave me free reign to prattle on with my thoughts about online marketing, and indie publishing in general.
The official marketing copy from their website:
On Feb. 7th, 2008 Victor R. [...]