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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…