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John Sundman wrote a new blog post: Jane Friedman, Long-Time Publisher of Writer’s Digest, Talks with Self-Publishing Review 1 year, 5 months ago · View
I first met Jane Friedman sometime around June, 2001, when she called to tell me that my novel Acts of the Apostles had won the Writer’s Digest National Self-Published Book Award for that year (in the “genre” category: a juried competition with 324 entrants, ahem; I digress). That call took place pretty early in Jane’s 12 year [...] -
John Sundman wrote a new blog post: SPR interviews Mark Coker of Smashwords 1 year, 6 months ago · View
Smashwords is a service for helping small and self-publishers format ebooks in diverse formats (for example: kindle, epub, PDF, Palm) and distribute them through diverse retail channels (for example Amazon, Apple, BN, Kobo, and Smashwords itself). A few weeks ago I sent Smashwords founder Mark Coker a note asking if I could interview him for my site Wetmachine [...] -
John Sundman commented on the blog post You’re a Slush-Pile Slave 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Scott: Well said. Now that the publishing (indie/pod/ebooks) revolution is here, it seems to be progressing even faster than forecast. People have been saying for a long time that indie & electronic publishing would shake up the established order (and diminish the importance of gatekeepers). For a while it seemed that the promised changes would [...]
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John Sundman wrote a new blog post: Kirkland College Requiem — a review 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Below, a review of Samuel Babbitt’s Limited Engagement , a self-published history of the short but glorious life of Kirkland College, of which Babbitt was the founding and only president. Limited Engagement shows how self-publishing makes it possible to create great books that have a fundamentally limited audience. This review was originally posted on my site Wetmachine, part of a [...] -
John Sundman commented on the blog post On Piracy and Freebooks 1 year, 8 months ago · View
I don’t know if “people in general” will ever be comfortable with torrents, but my books are about, mostly, hackers, precisely the people who are comfortable with torrents — and my books, under Creative Commons — have been downloaded thousands of times (PDF). I don’t know if this has done me any good or not. [...]
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John Sundman commented on the blog post Adventures in Self-Publishing 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Peter, Thanks. When I signed up with Smashwords, they indicated that my book would be available in “all channels” within a few weeks. That was a few months ago, and it’s not on Amazon yet, for “technical reasons” — although it is on BN.com, the Apple store, etc. I haven’t decided whether or not to [...]
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John Sundman wrote a new blog post: Adventures in Self-Publishing 1 year, 10 months ago · View
(click for complete version) I’ve been self-publishing novels for a little more than ten years. I’ve had some successes–for example, I’ve won the Writer’s Digest National Self-Published Book competition and I’ve sold more than 6,000 copies of my books. But I’m not a self-publishing rock star and I still dream of doing much better. Here’s [...] -
John Sundman wrote a new blog post: Adventures in Self-Publishing
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I’ve been self-publishing novels for a little more than ten years. I’ve had some successes–for example, I’ve won the Writer’s Digest National Self-Published Book competition and I’ve sold more than 6,000 copies of my books. But I’m not a self-publishing rock star and [...]1 year, 10 months ago · View
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John Sundman wrote on their own wire:
A blog post about a cheesy hand-drawn flyer I made ten years ago that still helps me sell books today: http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1958
P.S. Apologies if this has shown up on my ”status” already — still trying to get the hand of this place. . .1 year, 10 months ago · View
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John Sundman posted a new status update:
A blog entryabout a crackpot flyer I put together ten years ago that remains a useful marketing tool when I hand-sell my books:
1 year, 10 months ago · View
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John Sundman became a registered member 1 year, 10 months ago · View
