Man, I think it’s the highest compliment in the world to be told they inhaled my book. Usually that’s followed up with, “Now I can go back and really dig into the details.” Whatever. They bought it. They read it. They may have remarked to me or online or in a review. That’s golden, right [...]

If we don’t have ‘traditional’ agents & publishers acting as gatekeepers and the Book Clubsn have sold out, who is left?

Um, the reader?

God forbid we allow the little people to choose what THEY want to read! Oh, heavens to Betsy, we can’t allow that!

What she said, with a double shot of [...]

Moriah Jovan commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review: Stay by Moriah Jovan

Thanks for the great review, Joel!
I actually had planned for wider margins, but accidentally locked myself into a page count and had to squish where I had not wanted to squish.
I’ll explain the use of the fonts (the to-do list, the emails, the handwritten notes), and I think it may just be a matter of [...]

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Moriah Jovan commented on the blog post Quitting gets a little easier every time.

I agree. I’d rather write than do the rest, and I finally decided my ROI on time spent marketing isn’t worth putting me behind on building a backlist.

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