• On Writing,  publishing

    The New World of Publishing: What Indie Production Actually Costs

    Every few days I get someone making a comment on a topic and mentioning they can’t do such-and-such because it just costs too much. And I get at least one letter a week asking me how I can do so many books with the cost of editing. To be honest, these questions always puzzle me. So let me dig into this a little. My History I used to have a publishing house, remember, folks? I was the publisher, actually, of Pulphouse Publishing Inc., ranked the 5th largest publisher of fantasy, science fiction, and horror in the nation for four or five years from 1989-1994. We had a two-story office building…