August 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Last week, Heather J. at “Age 30+…A Lifetime of Books” (a book review blog, whose review of Homefront can be found here) allowed me space for a guest post introducing Backword Books and inviting her readers to participate in a Homefront giveaway.
Heather’s rules:
Leave a comment with your thoughts on Backword Books’ authors collective - what [...]
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August 18th, 2009 | Posted by: R.J. Keller
I recently held a t-shirt designing contest on my blog in which readers could suggest, and later vote on, their favorite quotes from my novel, Waiting For Spring, that they thought would be appropriate t-shirt fodder. The result was announced yesterday, August 17, and today the t-shirt is available to purchase from the Backword Books [...]
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August 14th, 2009 | Posted by: Eddie Wright
So I’m moving from NJ to San Francisco.
I decided I wanted to simplify. I wanted to dump possessions - DVDs, books, CDs, everything. I sold, I recycled, I gave away, I chucked. Before this major move became a definite thing, I was an accumulator. A big, fat, geeky accumulator. Along with the DVDs and books [...]
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August 10th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
I felt the sweat in places sweat grows. I saw Producer Kacy sweating, too–and she’d even taken off her blazer. I tried not to blow my hair out of my face or wipe my cheeks and eyes and forehead.
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August 7th, 2009 | Posted by: Christopher Meeks
Many novelists I know are a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, feeling like they get no respect. Yet after diving into publishing three years ago. I remain optimistic. Before I explain why, let me remind you of the state of publishing. Book advances continue to diminish. Imprints are disappearing. Red ink flows.
New York magazine in an [...]
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August 5th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
Wish me luck! Oh boy, a TV interview. How fun is this?
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August 4th, 2009 | Posted by: Andrew Kent
One of the premises behind print-on-demand publishing (and largely working for Amazon.com) is that when a book is ordered, it is purchased — there is no longer a consignment model of returnable inventory.
Bruce Batchelor, a POD expert from Canada, has posted this very interesting video analysis of the flaws in the consignment model, illustrating how, [...]
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July 31st, 2009 | Posted by: R.J. Keller
Back in high school, I was friends with a girl who’d read James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. She even claimed to have enjoyed it. She did me the great honor of letting me borrow her copy of it after learning I’d recently become enamored of W.B. Yeats. I gave it an honest go, but tossed it [...]
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July 31st, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
When I first read about it–particularly what the naysayers were saying (see the string of responses after the Publetariat Vault feature in the Self-Publishing Review)–I, too, was skeptical. Too many websites offering to “help” indie writers are interested only in taking advantage of their desire to have their work noticed and count on being able to squeeze money out of them for it–and without offering much in return.
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July 29th, 2009 | Posted by: Kristen Tsetsi
“Have you been published by an impartial third party? Confident writers eventually get traditionally published. Period.” - J.A. Konrath
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