Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries is the true-life tale of a slacker, gay, viola-playing, sardonic English teacher making his way through the wilds of Tokyo.  You know you’re in for a good read when the promo materials for the book are funny.  A lesson to writers – your promo materials can do a lot.

The [...]

An interview with Wade Stabler, author of ‘Rootwork’ which you can find here.
1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published
traditionally?
I decided to self-publish because I heard about the long waits and difficulty of traditionally getting published. I always hear of new writers writing fantastic books, only to have them rejected [...]

For the last century, publishers controlled the means of book production and book distribution. If authors wanted to reach readers, they had no choice but to kneel before the publishing oligopolists who had the power to determine who got published, and what readers read. The system worked fantastically well for the publishers, [. . .] but less well for the authors they published, and even less well for the vast majority of authors who could never gain access to the cliquey club of the published.

I am a huge fan of Marc Horne. And it’s not just because he’s been known to write homages to Stan Lee or name books after Morrissey songs, or even because he’s been known to say a few kind words about my own work.
His new novel, This Unhappy Planet, is a satirical dramedy about two [...]

<—That’s me, the editor of Self-Publishing Review.
Self-promotion time.  I don’t do a huge amount of self-promoting about my own book here, but here goes.  Case in point, didn’t mention that my novel, The American Book of the Dead, recently won the Gold IPPY award for Visionary Fiction.  It also won Best Fiction at the DIY [...]

I got turned onto Eddie Wright via a tweet by blogger Mike Cane, who suggested that the two of us together would be explosive. Naturally, with a teaser like that I had to check out Eddie’s novel.
Broken Bulbs is either about a junkie trying to write a screenplay or a writer who thinks he needs [...]

An interview with Amber Riley, author of Kindred Blood. Info on completing this interview here.

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published
traditionally?
I did try to find an agent. I believe I sent query letters to about 10 seeking representation before decided to self-publish. Once I found iUniverse, I [...]

I felt like a fish out of water for my entire professional life.
I entered university at a time when job opportunities were plentiful, and in the 6 years that I spent studying journalism and then history, the world started to change. By the time I graduated, no one wanted to hire an artsy generalist, and [...]

I did it! I finally handed in my manuscript for Black Earth: The Broken Daisy to my editor at the end of last week. This freed me up to continue work on formatting Black Earth: End of the Innocence for ebook editions on Smashwords. I was having some major problems formatting my Word doc and [...]

An interview with Vicki Hopkins, author of The Price of Innocence.  See how you can fill out this interview here.
1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?
My first self-publishing experience was in May of 2009, when I published a popular blog – Lessons From the Phantom of the [...]