By Wesley Craig Green – a writer of comics & movies, occasional entrepreneur, pop culture junkie, and lover of all things 70s. Till only a few years ago, making a successful go at self-publishing (by “successful”, I mean having a growing audience which actively supports your work) was not the norm. For every Jeff Smith, there were [...]

This is a continuation of the post On the Cusp of a Shot at a Dream—but how bad do I want it? by an anonymous self-published author. I used to be worried I would never land an agent. Without an agent, I was an unpublished “nobody” among nobodies hoping to be somebody, but knowing that without an [...]

Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Murdered Mojo

This is a continuation of the post On the Cusp of a Shot at a Dream—but how bad do I want it? by an anonymous [...]

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This interview with Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward , was originally posted on the blog of Jim Thomsen – “An Aspiring Author’s Journey to the Promised Land of Publication … Where Nothing is Promised.”

Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be sequestered in his small house [...]

Guest Post wrote a new blog post: 600 (or so) Words with Craig Lancaster

This interview with Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward, was originally posted on the blog of Jim Thomsen – “An Aspiring Author’s Journey to the Promised Land of Publication … Where Nothing is Promised.”

Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be [...]

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guest-post wrote a new blog post: Self Publishing Basics: How to Read an ISBN

Some years ago I published a book that landed on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review, which was quite a thrill for my wife and I, who were running our publishing company from a spare bedroom in our house.
Soon enough, the phone [...]

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Guest Post wrote a new blog post: The Espresso Book Machine: One Writer’s Story

A guest post by Judith D. Schwartz, a writer based in Southern Vermont and author, most recently, of The Therapist’s New Clothes, a memoir — and cautionary tale — about training as a psychotherapist. Her blog on using the Espresso Book Machine is: <a href="http://litadventuresinpod.blogspot.com" [...]

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A guest post by Judith D. Schwartz, a writer based in Southern Vermont and author, most recently, of The Therapist’s New Clothes , a memoir — and cautionary tale — about training as a psychotherapist. Her blog on using the Espresso Book Machine is: http://litadventuresinpod.blogspot.com. As someone with a book manuscript making the rounds, I followed the growing acceptance [...]

guest-post wrote a new blog post: Guest Post: Marketing BookBuzzr – A Book Marketing Site

A few weeks ago, we had an email interaction with Henry at SelfPublishingReview.com, who made a very valuable suggestion for improving the user interface and readability of BookBuzzr on Mac systems. When we made the fix, Henry suggested that we write a guest post about running a book-marketing [...]

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A few weeks ago, we had an email interaction with Henry at SelfPublishingReview.com, who made a very valuable suggestion for improving the user interface and readability of BookBuzzr on Mac systems. When we made the fix, Henry suggested that we write a guest post about running a book-marketing site. So here goes… What is BookBuzzr? BookBuzzr is a [...]

Originally posted at Kreelan Warrior , the site of Michael R. Hicks, author of the science fiction series, In Her Name – ” Fans of epic fantasy as well as science fiction lovers will find an enjoyable read here, particularly those who love to visit unique worlds with some seriously beautiful worldbuilding.” For those who may be thinking about Lightning Source [...]

Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Getting an Account with Lightning Source

Originally posted at Kreelan Warrior, the site of Michael R. Hicks, author of the science fiction series, In Her Name – “Fans of epic fantasy as well as science fiction lovers will find an enjoyable read here, particularly those who love to visit unique [...]

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Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Guest Post – An Author Creates a Website for Consumers: IndieReader

IndieReader—which will go live in June—promotes, markets, and sells self-published/POD books. Authors set the retail price for their books and receive 75% of the transaction. IndieReader also provides authors with their own Web page with their own URL (no unintelligible code!). What Sundance has done [...]

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Guest interview by Michael Reed . Originally commissioned by Strange Horizons , but it was not posted on that site.  Strange Horizons replied, “Although some sections, notably on the author’s local inspirations and self-publishing, stand out as offering a fresh perspective, it’s a problem for our purposes that the interviewee doesn’t seem to be particularly active in new fiction projects [...]

Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Chionophobia and Other Sticky Problems: The Darryl Sloan Interview

Guest interview by Michael Reed. Originally commissioned by Strange Horizons, but it was not posted on that site.  Strange Horizons replied, “Although some sections, notably on the author’s local inspirations and self-publishing, stand out as offering a fresh perspective, it’s a problem for our purposes that the interviewee doesn’t seem to [...]

  2 years, 9 months ago · View

Brent Sampson is the president and CEO of Outskirts Press , offering self-publishing, marketing, and distribution services.  He’s also the best-selling author of Sell Your Book on Amazon (to be reviewed here soon), Self-Publishing Simplified , and Adventures in Publishing .  Brent says, “Outskirts Press has helped thousands of authors realize their dreams of publishing profitably and is the third fastest growing privately-held [...]

Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Guest Post: Brent Sampson from Outskirts Press

Brent Sampson is the president and CEO of Outskirts Press, offering self-publishing, marketing, and distribution services.  He’s also the best-selling author of Sell Your Book on Amazon (to be reviewed here soon), Self-Publishing Simplified, and Adventures in Publishing.  Brent says, [...]

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Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Guest Post: On the Cusp of a Shot at a Dream—but how bad do I want it?

This post was submitted by a self-published author who wished to remain anonymous because he/she did not want any information written here to get in the way of negotiations with a literary agent.  Yes, agents are that fickle. Part one of a series, the article asks: how [...]

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Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Guest Post: The YouWriteOn Story by Pat Jourdan

Pat Jourdan is the author of the novel, Finding Out.  Here she describes the opportunity and pitfalls of self-publishing with YouWriteOn, organized by Arts Council England.
Imagine getting an email asking if you’d like your manuscript to be published, just like that. It says that it will [...]

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Guest Post wrote a new blog post: Guest Post: Kevin Gerard on Book Marketing

Kevin Gerard talks about his incredibly unique and ambitious marketing techniques to promote his young adult series, Conor and the Crossworlds.  This article shows the lengths that self-published writers can – and should – take to promote a book.
“And what are you prepared [...]

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