Random quote of the day:
“It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.”
—Leonard Cohen, “The Stranger Song”
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mirrored from Better Than Dead.
Random quote of the day:
“It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.”
—Leonard Cohen, “The Stranger Song”
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mirrored from Better Than Dead.
As I’ve said before, I’ve been reading excessively and obsessively on this for months and months. I thought of doing a distillation post, but that proved far too cumbersome for the time I had to do it—and really, it’s not my call to make. Everyone has to make up their own mind on this, and I am far from being an expert experiencer.
So I’ve decided to post a sampling of what other people have said. These are not posted in any particular order, but there is both pro and con. I am probably leaving out somebody or some post that is essential to this discussion and will probably smack myself upside the head for it later, so if any of you think I should add anything to this list, leave the link or whatever in the comments and I’ll add an ETA section.
I hope this is helpful.
Ebooks and Self-Publishing – A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath
The Washington Post: Novel rejected? There’s An E-book Gold Rush!
Ilona Andrews: On E-books, Realistic Expectations (A 4-page, comprehensive analysis)
Tracy Marchini: Five Things I’ve Learned by E-publishing
The New York Times: Book Country by Penguin – Aspiring Authors Get Help Online
DGLM Literary Agency: If a Publisher or Agent Came Calling
Victorine Lieske: Reasons Why You Should Not Self-publish
David Rothstein: Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet
Amanda Hocking: Some Things That Need to Be Said
Jim C. Hines: The Anti-NY Playbook (Bashing Commercial Publishing)
Ellen Fisher: Unexpected Loss of Income, or Why Indie Publishing Can Be a Bit Scary
Ellen Fisher: The Vulnerability of Being a Writer
ETA:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Trust Me.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Writing Like It’s 1999.
Jennifer Laughran — On Agency Agreements.
A. C. Crispin — The Interminable Agency Clause.
Victoria Strauss: The Gloves Are Off.
Forbes: Is there gold in your backlist?
Book View Café Blog/Brenda Hough - Getting Your Backlist Up: A Report from the 2011 Nebulas. Chock full of helpful links and how-to's—a great place to start. Thanks to sartorias for providing the link on her blog.
Dear Author - Why DRM Won’t Be Abandoned Soon.
DGLM Literary Agency - If you get it for free…
Sean Cregan/John Richards - Price, Insanity and The Race To The Bottom.
John Vorhaus at Writer Unboxed - Let’s Have a Pity Party.
Ellen Fisher - Intriguing.
Richards Parks - Good Idea, Bad Idea (Ebooks) and Good Idea, Bad Idea - Continued.
Guido Henkel - Take pride in your eBook formatting. This is part one of a nine part series. You can click through from here to the other posts.
Smashwords - How to Publish and Distribute Ebooks with Smashwords.
Blood Geek cover design by F-Bod Studios.
Mirrored from Better Than Dead.
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