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Baker and Taylor Going Out of Business…
No Real Surprise… B&T at one point in time was the main distributor to bookstores. Maybe the largest book distributor at times. It was founded in the 1800s, actually. Over the last fifty years it morphed into different forms and with different corporate owners too stupid to detail out here. And parts of the company were sold off. (Always a good plan.) When indie publishing with Amazon fired up, “extended distribution” went to B&T and for a time all indie books had a special code that basically kept bookstores from buying indie books. Can I say “shortsighted on B&T’s part. But at that point their main customers were the big…
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FEY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!
This is a Great Kickstarter for a Great Book!!! The brand new Fey novel THE UNEXPECTED HERO is the focus of this fun campaign. The campaign just launched and will run for 9 days, and wow do we have two fun special classes with this one. Building a merch fantasy world and fantasy markets. They are both going to be a blast. And some great fantasy reading and the newest Fey novel. If you have not ever read any of the Fey novels, you can get them all in this campaign and you are in for a huge treat. And this new book is a real page turner. Steam Punk…
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FEY KICKSTARTER STARTS AT NOON!!!
This is a Great Kickstarter for a Great Book!!! The brand new Fey novel THE UNEXPECTED HERO is the focus of this fun campaign. The campaign will launch at noon Tuesday (Today!!) and run for 9 days, and wow do we have two fun special classes with this one. Building a merch fantasy world and fantasy markets. They are both going to be a blast. And some great fantasy reading and the newest Fey novel. If you have not ever read any of the Fey novels, you can get them all in this campaign and you are in for a huge treat. And this new book is a real page…
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Last Day for Early Bird Discount!!!
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 13th through November 7th Going to put this basic information here again since we still have more than enough spots open and just one day to get it at the early bird discount and save $200. (Information below on how to sign up.) We will have a minimum of five videos a day, often over ten when we do special focus things. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do on your own time. No assignments at all. But staying up with the videos as they go along also allows you to ask questions, which is…
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Some Stuff…
A Bunch of Details… First off, I did miss one Kickstarter campaign last night that was sent to me that I think is great. It is… Team Building Revenge: A Novella by Kari Kilgore This is really fun and very well done and I have backed it and I will talk more about it next Friday since it has some time left and already funded. Sorry to miss it, Kari. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karikilgore/team-building-revenge Two Days Left for the Early Bird Discount for the Fall Indie Writing Festival… All the details have been in my blog. There are still some openings left, so grab one before the price goes up. See the details…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. I will not say much negative about a campaign. If there is too much or it is going to fail, I won’t post it here. And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter Campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 55 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoyu are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or so. I am continuing…
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Takes Balance in Indie Publishing…
Indie Takes Knowing Major and Minor Skills… Back in traditional publishing days, hundreds of thousands of writers worked to get past the gate keepers and get their books bought and into print. A few out of those thousands actually made it for a ton of varied reasons. And so few out of those who made it actually had careers longer than a few books. Reasons… Many were just not good storytellers, rewrote everything into mush, and had no voice, didn’t understand the entire business process of submission, or more than likely, just did not have the drive to keep going and keep learning and working to get better. They claimed…
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Personal Sales Help…
Only For a Few Writers… Okay, after a number of requests, I am going to do this officially. Since this time last year, Kris has helped a small number of writers with their craft, reading assignments every two weeks. She is not taking anyone new and that is almost all done. And as we have done the camp last summer and the promotions workshop this fall and other classes along the way with branding and such, it has become clear that some writers just need help with sales. And not the kind of sales you would imagine. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell…
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Fun Day…
Great News Is Always Fun… Especially after all the problems these last two years. When things have been bumpy, you really enjoy the good stuff when it happens. So after Kris got done with her webinar this afternoon, and we got the cleaners out of our condo, we headed off to Crossroads Restaurant in Resorts World to celebrate the good news, just the two of us. Fine dining with cloth tablecloths and more service than should be allowed. Stunningly wonderful-tasting food. Just perfect. And nope, good news stays with us and close friends. Sorry. Just trust me, it was stunning news and worth a great meal. (grin) And then we…
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Now Half Full!!…
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 13th through November 7th Going to put this basic information here again since we are now just over half full. And just under one week to get it at the early bird discount and save $200. (Information below on how to sign up.) Plus today Steph at WMG made an oops and sent out a newsletter saying there was one video per day. She corrected that at once, of course. We have a minimum of five videos a day, often over ten when we do special focus things. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do…