You’ve seen the stats: upwards of 280,000 “self-published” books in 2009, according to Bowker or some big brother agency; with 2010 expected to dwarf those numbers and crush the number of mainstream published books.
We’re [...]

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great great great and while i at this point should just shutter up and enjoy the banter, in the wake of my own post this morning at http://dontpublishme.blogspot.com about indie writers competing for dwindling eyeballs in the enormous muckstorm of shit writing and mainstream formula vomit, i do have an issue, echoing from my post. [...]

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Maybe I just suck, but I can’t sell shit. Ok, print book has been out only 2 months and it’s my first and it’s a memoir/comedy/nonfiction, but the idea of earning a living is a pipe dream…UNLESS I receive that call back from Bonnie Bernstein at ICM to option my novel (and I’ll take an [...]

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I had a conversation today with a copyright lawyer, not about anything to copyright, but we were just chatting in general. She asked how my book signing went last week, and that’s how we got to chatting about books. Her husband is a writer, and she mentioned [...]

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yay! very funny! so creative!

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I watched the most godawful movie the other day. It’s my fault, usually my 10-minute rule is pretty good. But somehow this one lasted beyond 10 minutes and we suffered through it. With a cast of people who I generally like, an interesting soundtrack, and [...]

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Eric, thanks for coming by! I appreciate your support and comments. Don’t think I haven’t been trying to hawk excerpts! I think in this recession where hundreds of writers have been laid off, everyone and their mother is trying to land a freelance gig. So the opportunities to publish articles, essays, and literary excerpts have [...]

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thanks for appreciating it. i’m taking just a slight beating over this, but i think fundamentally the indie writer ‘movement’ (huh?) doesn’t have a singular platform. kind of like the liberals, i guess. we are principled and fiercely independent, but the nuances in our approaches to publishing keep us, well, independent. and there’s the beauty. [...]

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you’re excused, for both your optimism and the typo!
yeah look, i’m definitely committed. if there’s any hope that anything i’m writing can get me out of what i do for a living, i’ll be happy. i just held that same hope 29 times and where did it get me?

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ok — we don’t disagree.
i’m at a point in my life (29 jobs later, literally) where i just can’t put everything on hold and see the light of publishing success. so i write this essay with a certain bias that is by no means optimistic nor empirical, and i should have disclosed that.
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I was in such a bad mood the past couple of weeks. Day job sucks, winter is freezing, we’re broke, I’m a little stuck with getting my book out there, blah blah blah.
And then I wrote a story. And I fell in love with the characters. And then [...]

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“So you are in Ingram’s?,” they ask, as if it’s some kind of legitimizing checkpoint in order to go any further. Because if the book wasn’t listed, like there’s no possible way in a million years they would even take [...]

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