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Paperback vs eBook… Don’t Care
Thanks for all the kind comments… On the post of the value of a paperback last night, I never intended to start some sort of paperback vs ebook silliness. Both are part of our delivery systems for the near future, at least. I’m fine with that. In fact, without the advent of electronic books, the indie revolution in publishing would have a much slower and much different start. My point last night was to help writers understand the value of a single paperback. Indie writers get lost in all the hype of selling ebooks and that sort of thing. I am no exception to that at times. And a couple…
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I Curated THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN Bundle
THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE Just Launched… The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with it. I grew up on Twilight Zone back in the late 1950s and through the early 1960s. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I heard the sentence, “In the middle ground between light and shadow…” in that opening sequence to the Twilight Zone. Thankfully, my parents didn’t seem to mind that I watched that show every week. And for some reason that sentence out of the opening sequence stuck with me for my entire life. I loved living in that middle ground. All my writing falls in the middle ground…
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A New Day
THANK YOU FOR THE KIND COMMENTS… I got a lot of wonderful comments, both on last night’s post about finishing four books in one month, and privately. Thank you all. I forgot to mention one thing in last night’s post. All four of the books were final draft. I will not rewrite them. I did not write sloppy. Three books have been read by Kris so far and she loves them. All four will be going into WMG Publishing over the next week as I put together the issues of Smith’s Monthly they go into. And tonight I started a new novel called The End of Time: A Seeders Universe…
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Some Pulp Writers
Some Fun Names and Facts… Since it was asked about talking about the old pulp writers and how some people liked that, I thought I would do a quick post on just a few of the writers who wrote a book a week for years at a time. Yup, a book a week. For years. British writers this post. There were numbers of US writers as well, but the British during the final years of the pulp era and the start of the paperback era had some amazing writers working down in the trenches. (1948 to 1955 or so) So I did some quick research of names I knew (and…
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Fantastic New Bundle… Escapist
We All Need to Escape… Especially in these times and in this bundle is some fantastic escape fiction. Not only does it have a Fiction River anthology in it with a bunch of stories (including one from me) but it also has my origin Poker Boy novel called The Slots of Saturn. And it has an amazing collection of Kris’s stories, plus novels and stories by some amazing writers. This bundle really, really will help you escape, I promise you. Just Poker Boy and Front Desk Girl fighting Ghost Slots will do that, I promise. (grin) The full official write-up and all information is below. Get it for a limited time at…
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Workshop Curriculum
Workshop Curriculum 8/1/2022 I’m going to divide these down into areas of study. And the numbers are my suggestions on the order to take these workshops because many of them build on others. All workshops and courses can be found on Teachable. Just hit “see all courses.” These are regular and classic workshops. Pop-Up Classes and other types of classes will follow on craft. Then will follow business focused classes. FOUNDATION COURSES FOR CRAFT 1… Depth 2… Advanced Depth (Depth required) 3… Writing into the Dark (Depth required) 4… Teams (Depth suggested to help) 5… Killing the Critical Voice 6… Research (Depth #3) (Classic workshop…Depth required) 7… Information Flow (Classic workshop…Depth suggested)…
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Some New Workshop Ideas
New Workshop Ideas After meetings this afternoon, Kris and I headed over to the valley to do some shopping, have dinner and see a movie. On the way back we got talking about ideas for new workshops. See topic of the night below on a few of them. ——- The Day WMG Publishing meeting at 2 p.m. and then around 4 p.m. Kris and I headed for the valley. We live on the Oregon Coast, so at times we go into the Wallamette Valley to just get away. So we did some shopping, had diner and saw a movie. Got home around 12 p.m. and I did a little e-mail,…
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The New World of Publishing: The Real Price of Traditional Publishing
Authors Pay a High Price for Traditional Publishing. This new world of publishing now allows authors to make many publishing choices after they finish a book. That’s a great thing compared to just ten years ago. Now an author can go the old traditional route, they can go full indie and do everything. Or they can publish somewhere in the middle, taking responsibility for all the work, but hiring out parts, or all of the tasks needed to be done. A thousand choices in the process now. And that’s a very, very good thing for authors in the abstract. But all choices have costs. This post is about the costs of…
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The New World of Publishing: Top 10 Reasons Why I Would Never Publish Traditionally
Got an interesting question last week when sitting having dinner with an old friend. He wanted to know why I said I would never go back to publishing novels with traditional major publishers. Now over dinner, with my friend having no background in what was happening in publishing, that question because impossible to answer. So I muttered something about bad contracts and moved on. Now understand, I published over a hundred novels with traditional novel publishers and made my living doing that for a few decades. So why not now? What changed? The industry changed, that’s what. Traditional publishing is flat not what it was when I was selling books…
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Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing: #1… Can’t Get Indie Books into Bookstores
Myths ignore facts. Myths are beliefs built from fear or past actions. In this series, and in the previous series of Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing, I call the myths that control writers “Sacred Cows.” Writers hold onto myths like lifelines that are keeping them from drowning in a raging river of information. Sometimes sane people in the normal world will follow a publishing myth that makes no sense at all because it has something to do with the publishing business. And they follow the myth without thought. So this new series is an attempt to help the new world of indie publishing with the growing list…