The sequels to James Cameron’s Avatar won’t arrive until 2017, but the series’ social media feeds are evidently already relaunching this week in advance, according to Mashable. This apparent social reboot spans Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, SoundCloud and Facebook. Mashable has a very handy rundown of the social media outreach that’s planned: Avatar on Tumblr: As Mashable notes, it’s all aboutContinue reading “Mashable’s Break Down Of “The ‘Avatar’ Social Media Relaunch””
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Book Baby To Make Print Distribution to Retailers Accessible to Indies
Book Baby Just Broke the Internet for Indie Authors http://t.co/YrQFJqzIPI — Bibliocrunch (@BiblioCrunch) January 28, 2015 Via Bibliocrunch, Good E-Reader reports that Book Baby will make it possible for self-published authors to distribute their titles to retailers “like Barnes and Noble through their website (with the potential due to sales and customer requests for in-storeContinue reading “Book Baby To Make Print Distribution to Retailers Accessible to Indies”
The Author Hangout’s Interview with Jane Friedman
Jane Friedman assists authors navigate their careers in addition to teaching and speaking on digital media and publishing. Make sure to follow Jane on Twitter. The latest issue of Jane’s magazine about writing, money, and life, Scratch Magazine, arrives Tuesday, February 3, 2015. For more information about Scratch magaizne, Click Here!
Spot The Difference
Tweaked My #Blog! New Easy-To-Find Link to My #SelfPub#GraphicNovel‘s Newsletter: http://t.co/hNc8afWTik#authorrtpic.twitter.com/jEgOrFQnsv — Patrick Weibel (@Weibart) January 28, 2015 Notice a bit of a revamp to my site? I’ve done some general editing to the look of the site. I’m excited to have a direct link to the Newsletter for my upcoming graphic novel series Intercept Now! inContinue reading “Spot The Difference”
Free PDF Downloads: Self-Publishing Courses from Bibliocrunch!
Want access to all our #selfpub courses in PDF form? For a limited time you can download them for FREE #BCLAUNCHPARTYhttp://t.co/7G4hLSzvgG — Bibliocrunch (@BiblioCrunch) January 16, 2015 Bibliocrunch helps authors collaborate with curated editors, book designers, marketers, and other publishing professionals who can take their book to the next level. For a limited time, they’reContinue reading “Free PDF Downloads: Self-Publishing Courses from Bibliocrunch!”
Jonathan Nowell on the Children’s Book Market (2014)
Status of the Children’s Book Market (2014) via @JaneFriedmanhttp://t.co/eWMPET2Q8p — Joanna Penn (@thecreativepenn) January 14, 2015 Take a look at Jane Friedman’s post about Jonathan Nowell’s presentation on the US Children’s Book Market at Digital Book World. Nowell’s full presentation can be viewed here.
Self-Pub: “The sky isn’t falling. The world is turning.”
Sky Gazing: http://t.co/Z2tL4G4Gco Is the sky falling for self-published authors? Is the gold rush over? My thoughts. — Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) January 14, 2015 Via Hugh Howey: You may have heard the sky is falling. You may have heard that the self-publishing gold rush is over. There have been a number of forum threads, blogs,Continue reading “Self-Pub: “The sky isn’t falling. The world is turning.””
Hugh Howey On The Liliana Nirvana Technique
Via Hugh Howey’s Official Site: So what exactly is it? The idea is this: Annual releases are too slow to build on one another. And not just in the repetition of getting eyeballs on your works, but in how online recommendation algorithms work. Liliana suggests publishing 5 works all at once. Same day. And sheContinue reading “Hugh Howey On The Liliana Nirvana Technique”
EPIC: Fourteen Books of Fantasy
1,000,000 words of epic fiction for 99 cents. Now at #41 on all of Amazon. Some awesome peeps in this boxset: http://t.co/9AAxXKvuso — Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) December 12, 2014 This is an example of how self-published eBooks are awesome for readers and for the writers that create them. Readers get an amazing deal that offersContinue reading “EPIC: Fourteen Books of Fantasy”
The “Branding” Process
Via Kotaku: BASIC is a design agency that does something pretty unique, at least in the world of video games: instead of just doing concept art, or making logos, or promotional art, they kinda do a combination of all of it, helping give a game – which might otherwise be a pitch and some mechanicsContinue reading “The “Branding” Process”
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