Yes, I went on one of my rants yesterday. Sometimes you look into the distance and miss what is important when it is right under your own nose. Self-Publishing takes many authors into the unfamiliar global hemisphere. For most, that is never the objective. I think it fitting tonight that we should forget the Thomas…
CreateSpace Launch Full Online Distribution For Pro-Plan
CreateSpace today announced that it is introducing full online distribution to authors who opt for their PRO plan offer. This has been long overdue and brings CreateSpace into line with many other author solutions services. Historically CreateSpace has only offered online distribution through their own ebook store and parent company Amazon. Here is the full…
End The Publishing Terminology or Be Damned
I read some wonderful things today. I also read a lot of crap. In my travails of the morning, afternoon and evening, I came across the words of writers I hold and respect dearly. There were also other words written by writers I know less about. I still discovered the occasional gem, and a few…
YOGS Law & The New Money Flow In Publishing – Mark Barrett Article on Ditchwalk
Occasionally you read something which really strikes home. Even less often, someone comes along with a fresh outlook on a long debated publishing issue. For someone who had never heard of YOGS Law (in publishing – money flows towards the author), Mark Barrett over on Ditchwalk has produced, certainly for me, one of the most insightful…
POD TV – Program 19: Back Channel Press
POD TV has been on a short hiatus, but returns this week with Joe Smiga’s Living Your Passion, a local TV Network program in Manchester, New Hampshire. Here, he interviews husband and wife, Nancy and John Grossman who run Back Channel Press, a local company who provide publishing services for authors. The company’s services are aimed…
The Write Lines: BBC Radio Oxford
Came across this BBC Radio Oxford program called The Write Lines via Jane Smith’s excellent, How Publishing Really Works. It is presented by the BBC’s Sue Cook and focuses on writing, publishing (commercial and self-publishing) and literary agents. The program runs for four episodes and broadcasts on Sundays, 9pm to 10pm and features many established industry experts.…
DellArte Press (Harlequin Paid-Publishing) – Reviewed [CLOSED]
In future months, that is—beyond November 2009—authors who drop by the DellArte Press site will probably be oblivious of the furore which occurred when romance publisher Harlequin decided to sign up with Author Solutions and utilise them to development a paid-publishing services. Harlequin is not the first, nor will they be the last. Author Solutions already…
What Sells Books? Sweet Self-Publishing Indulgence
A conversation the other day with an author considering self-publishing veered off on a tangent neither of us had expected. We started out discussing his perspective book on sweet confectionary over the past fort years. Needless to say, we began with a long indulgent conversation on the sweets we used to buy with our pocket…
Diggory Press: When Publishing Nightmare Becomes Reality Show
Two weeks ago, a long self-publishing saga finally reached a legal conclusion. It is one, which on and off, since this site began, we have chosen to cover because of its fundamental relevance to authors looking to use various companies offering what I call author solutions services. Frankly, this paid-publishing nightmare for some authors of…
Harlequin Backtracks On Name of Paid-Publishing Imprint After Backlash
Continued pressure from US writers’ organisations and publisher watchdogs has resulted in Harlequin announcing that it is to change the name of its new paid-publishing venture, Harlequin Horizons, launched this week in partnership with Author Solutions. Yesterday, Preditors & Editors changed its listing for Harlequin to Vanity Publisher. Today, the Romance Writers of America (RWA)…