Thank you, readers and Internet friends, for all the support through the publishing and launch of my third book, Army of Worn Soles. Publishing any book is an intense and drawn-out process—a lot of work over a long period. As I said in my post of June 16, I did not accomplish this on my […]
Creative Commons I am not a self-publisher, because I did not publish my books by myself. I was part of a team of talented, dedicated, professional, skilled and very giving people, to whom I am indebted and grateful. You know by now that my new book, Army of Worn Soles, will publish in e-book form […]
Creative Commons licence.http://moon.com/2014/03/hiking-and-recreation-in-parque-nacional-torres-del-paine/ A little over a year ago, I wrote a post for the Guild of Dreams blog where I wondered about how important it is for a writer to remain within a genre. Now that I have just sent my third manuscript to an editor, I find myself wondering about that again. Without […]
This past January, Digital Book World reported that nearly 80 percent of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors earn less than $1,000 a year from their efforts. That report has generated a lot of debate. Some very honest and brave independent authors have put their own statistics up against this argument: […]
You just don’t see this anymore. Photo by Travis Ruse, cropped by Gallifreyan Postman at en.wikipedi alicensed under Creative Commons It’s fascinating to see a long-range social and economic transformation take place before your eyes. Particularly in as mundane a place as a city bus. I believe in public transit, and I’ve used it regularly for years. Decades, […]
Have you ever noticed how people talk faster and louder when they have to defend a position they know is wrong? Like the Toronto cops defending the officer who shot Sammy Yatim nine times? A member of the commercial publishing industry is doing the same thing in blog form with statements like this: There are […]
“The global electronic marketplace is rapidly depleting authors’ income streams,” wrote Scott Turow, author and President of the Authors Guild., in an op-ed in the New York Times in April. E-books, pirated copies and changes to copyright laws will cause the “slow death of the American author.” Photo: Evan Long by Creative Commons Turow documents […]