Having not read 21 Erased myself, I can’t speak to the book in question, although like you, Catana, I did wonder whether this glowing(ish) review was paid for by the author. Yagiz, would you care to disclose? Seems only fair…. That aside, I should probably comment on the trailer, since it was included as part [...]

And I agree with you, William. I have a few flaws in my own works as well. I can’t afford a proofreader and we do the best we can given the budget we have to work with. On the other hand, if I find myself re-reading someone’s work to try to make sense of it, [...]

I proofread my own stuff and usually get hubby to go over it again, but didn’t. And I missed a word.. lol. Sok, Henry, You done good! 9-)

See what I mean… you just can’t do it by yourself. Someone has to go in and look it over for you. Thanks. I’ll see about correcting that bit… lol.

I downloaded it and took a quick look – you’re not missing much. My initial impression is that it looks and feels like a slightly dumbed-down version of Pages, with some extra stuff duct-taped to the side to add the multimedia features. What’s confusing is that this app doesn’t handle the actual submission of the [...]

Alan, I think it should go without saying that “if you’re writing books that are not popular with the buying public you are out of touch with the buying public.” But “quite possibly out of touch with the common man”? … Unpopular books don’t sell as well as popular ones. Since you’re “a pretty smart [...]

There’s definitely something to Mr. Konrath’s point that the Kindle world leads people to books they otherwise would never find. I’ve been having this experience myself, with the exception that nearly all of my books that are being downloaded through KDP are the free ones. Nevertheless, practically no one knows me or has ever heard [...]

As a writer who’s been known to produce genre-ish books that hardly have plots or even characters, I think I can feel your pain! Maybe when I finish the 2nd edition of my book Editorial (tentatively through Bizarro Press later this year), I’ll try to make sure there’s at least one instance of action for [...]

Ha! That’s a great review, being compared to Crime & Punishment – congrats!
That reviewer just made himself look stupid.

Henry, It could well be that “book snobs are taking longer to get on board with the e-revolution”, and that one reason for this is that harder-to-market “literary” titles are more likely to need the help of established publishers in getting off the ground. If this “e-revolution” is largely driven by self-published genre fiction, and [...]

Henry, I like what you’re saying here about Konrath’s limited point of view; it matches my experience as an author of the least commercial type of book anywhere: literary short stories. But I’d like you to say more about the source of your optimism. Why do you think “the time will come” for literary fiction’s [...]