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”

David Gaughran On Publishing And ‘Astroturfing’

Consider the big controversies in publishing in 2014 and then read this post on astroturfing from back January: http://t.co/HFSLlOfdU7 — David Gaughran (@DavidGaughran) November 19, 2014 Via David Gaughran: The real problem for large publishers is that readers are discovering books not published by them. What large publishers have is a competition problem, and theContinue reading “David Gaughran On Publishing And ‘Astroturfing’”

Authors: Check Out The DBW Writers’ Survey!

The annual DBW Writers’ Survey is here! Please participate and spread far and wide: http://t.co/K6N837voCJ Let’s RT the hell out of this! — Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) November 19, 2014

Check Out Writer’s Knowledge Base!

All the links I shared last week: http://t.co/XoLk37zGcm . All the links I’ve ever shared (free and searchable): http://t.co/tjn3Ognb9T . — Elizabeth S Craig (@elizabethscraig) November 17, 2014 Elizabeth S Craig tweets some of the most useful writers’ links on Twitter. Make sure to check out Writer’s Knowledge Base!