I will be away over the next couple of days at a conference, so I have just reposted some previously popular articles from last year. Posting again, late Sunday/early Monday. Have a great holiday weekend. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 1
There are many reasons why an author starts to contemplate travelling the long and winding road to self-publishing. Like many paths we undertake in life – we sometimes find ourselves on a path we never originally planned to travel upon. When this happens, we find out that we don’t always have the sufficient roadmap to…
Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 2
There are many variables and choices along the self-publishing road, whether an author decides to use author solutions companies like AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Infinity, Xlibris, Mill City Press or the many others using POD (print on demand) technology. Some publishing overlords will snipe from the hedgerow on our road and argue and catcall to us that…
Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 3 or (Sheila, Take A Bow)
A comment from Sheila851 was left on yesterdays Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 2 and it was extremely thought provoking and I think very much encapsulates how self published authors feel about ‘standard’ publishing and why so many are more than cheerful to pursue self-publishing despite its stigmas and challenges for authors. Here is Sheila’s…
New York times Article: Motoko Rich
This is a reprint of a posting from last year. “The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.” New York Times, January 27th, 2009. This is an opening quote from an article about self publishing in the New York…
HarperStudio’s Innovative Journey Ends
HarperStudio, an imprint of HarperCollins, and one of the most daring and innovative publishers, will publish its last titles under the imprint this Summer. Titles which had been scheduled for later will now be moved to other HarperCollins imprints. In a memo delivered to all staff today, company president, Michael Morrison announced the news. It…
Agency Model or Be Damned
I don’t how many times I started this piece today on the arrival of the iPad and the agency model. Frankly, by mid-morning, I gave up. There was just too many deals with Amazon to report by publishers, and too many comments like: ‘Oh, oh, it’s on-it’s off; our Amazon buy buttons are off –…
A Load of Rubbish Makes Authonomy’s March Top Five Reads
Irish author Helena Duggan’s A Load of Rubbish, a children’s book, made the top five list on Authonomy for March, finishing up at number two. While there are no guarentees of publication with HarperCollins, authors making the top five as voted by other authonomy subscribers will have their books viewed by an editor. From Helena’s blog…