How to Play Today’s Publishing Game
It can be difficult for authors to stand out in today’s crowded market. What can you do to reach as many readers as possible?
Keeping Pace With the Ever-Evolving Publishing Industry
Whether you choose traditional or self-publishing, you must stay on top of the latest developments if you want your work to reach readers.
The Wild, Wild West of Indie Publishing
Independent publishing has been around for as long as publishing itself, but what is new about it is how it is flourishing. Today the question of what to do with your manuscript is “context dependent,” meaning that the right path will vary depending on the book, the audience, and the year.
The Latest Insider Information for Writers
The following articles provide information that will help authors no matter what they are writing.
Publishing Convergence: What It Is and What It Means for Us All
Readers are picking up new habits, fast. And those among us who are digital immigrants (who came of age pre-Internet, as opposed to digital natives, who grew up with this) are surprising even ourselves.
3 More Great Ways to Keep Up With Today’s Publishing World
You want and need the best information possible so you can engage the right agents, write compelling books to your target audience, and sell a lot of those books.
The More You Know: Publishing Industry Knowledge Is Power
Where do you get the latest information on what agents are looking for and tips about what you can do to make you and your book more valuable and valued? The following websites, blogs, and newsletters should be a good start.
What Is a Bestseller?
Publishers gamble on books all the time. As a ghostwriter, there’s only one thing that haunts me. It’s the specter of the bestseller. The authors with whom I work may not dare to say it out loud, but every one of them wonders, “Could my book be a bestseller?” To those who ask me point…
Kindle: Friend or Foe – A Book in the Hand Is Worth…
I was lying in bed one night next to my husband, both of us reading, when I first noticed it. “Stut,” “stut,” “stut.” Maybe I’d been hearing it for a while but it hadn’t really registered. What new sound had he learned to make with what body part? I wondered. After nearly 20 years lying…
Kindle: Friend or Foe – Vitamin K
He sits on a shelf, as abandoned as any neglected child. Unwanted. Unsupervised. Unattended to. My husband gave me this Kindle more than a year ago at Christmas, no doubt thinking it was a must-have for bookish people like myself. I beg to differ. As someone who is in the publishing industry and who devours…