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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Review: God Hates Fags by Joe Wellman

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:14:21 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Review: God Hates Fags by Joe Wellman Editor's note: I considered writing the title as F*gs - but that's not the title.

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Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: Video: Writer Stereotypes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:28:20 +0000

Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: Video: Writer Stereotypes

The Paper Rats deconstruct some common writer stereotypes.

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Authors R.J. Keller and Kristen J. Tsetsi like to make videos when they should be writing. Their show is called “Inside The Writers’ Studio.”

They are Paper Rats.

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Their, There and Theyâre: Dude (or Dudette) You Need A Proofreader

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:54:49 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Their, There and They’re: Dude (or Dudette) You Need A Proofreader Fixed. I guess that was my fault b/c I proofread this.

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:48:24 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless Thanks, Mick. I've talked to some non-tech-headed people and they don't think $30 and an upgrade is such a small thing. Beyond that, I think Apple's taking too small a step. What they need is a self-publishing iTunes right now if they have a hope of catching Amazon, and these loops - small as they [...]

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Cheryl Anne Gardner posted a new activity comment

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:45:38 +0000

Cheryl Anne Gardner posted a new activity comment: No, I am never far away from the fray. I just choose not to indulge online very often. I felt bad about leaving the Podpeople, but there just isn't enough time in the day most days. Running a magazine takes up a lot of time, so I couldn't do both. I still read and review indie books, just on my own terms, and I choose the books. It was getting to the point where there was just too much mainstream knockoff stuff coming into the queue anyway, and besides, we all know, reviews don't do much for sales. I wanted to publish new authors. It was the next logical step in the process for me. Along with shifting my own focus to short fiction. I've have something like 86 stories published and/or accepted for publication so far. It's been a wonderful experiment and my writing has changed quite a bit, hopefully for the better. I just put out my last novella for a while.

In reply to - Arthur Graham posted an update: Hi Cheryl, I was a little worried when you left POD People, but I guess I should have known that you weren’t going far. In any case, I’m glad to see that you haven’t left the fray! You’ll be pleased to hear that I’m currently working on a new edition of [...]

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:51:10 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless Thanks, Jon. This really seems like a misstep on Apple's part, or a baby step when Amazon's miles ahead.

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:41:29 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless I'll admit an overreaction to the cost of an upgrade vs. the cost of my hardware upgrade to run Logic. But it's the same principle - a "free" app is actually costing me $30. And there are plenty of Mac users out there for whom an upgrade isn't feasible on their machine.

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:35:20 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless OK, the expense isn't gigantic - but it's still Apple's M.O. - to release new software that requires an expense somewhere else, and that bugs me. An upgrade isn't always seamless either - I just got past a time when I was getting dozens of kernal panics after an upgrade. It was fixed free, but [...]

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Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:43:56 +0000

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless Maybe it's great - but I'll never know. Sounds great, in theory :

Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images [...]

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Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:27:24 +0000

Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything No worries. I saw my share of flame wars over on Lulu back in the day when I started out, which is a large part of why I left Lulu and all community forums for that matter. I got into book reviewing because there were so few sites out there at the time, and I [...]

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Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:18:22 +0000

Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything Sure Dave, there are always variables, third categories, fourth categories, categories unknown ... would take too long to list all the types of writers, so I was speaking of the main two in broad strokes, though it didn't come off that way. I should have worded it differently: said the main two categories of too [...]

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Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:24:37 +0000

Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything I agree with you too, Henry. There are two different types of self-publishers: those who see it as a business and money is the measure of success, and those who see it more as an art-form or an avenue for self-expression. If they sell a few books, they are happy, because of course, all writers [...]

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:32:22 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything Sorry if it seems like I'm singling you out. It was really a reaction to the chorus of support for Konrath's claim that publicity is meaningless, without anyone saying: but wait, I like publicity. I would absolutely love to make a living writing. In fact, I really need the money. It's just not entirely realistic [...]

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Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Book Sales Aren't Everything

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:13:34 +0000

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Book Sales Aren't Everything Has self-publishing lost its way? The reason that I got interested in self-publishing was because of the traditional publishing industry's obsession with marketing over the quality of books. It seems like the vibe around self-publishing these days is echoing trad publishing's marketing obsession. I understand wanting to sell books. I'm desperate to sell books as well [...]

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated]

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:52:29 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated] Yeah, I admit it's sort of a humblebrag and I'm happy about it.

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated]

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:20:55 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated] I don't mean to dump on commercial fiction - b/c my problem actually is that my books straddle the line between commercial and literary. As I wrote, my books are (more or less) crime fiction and science fiction. But I have a lot of Amazon reviews calling my books "boring." They're not boring - they [...]

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Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: A Self-Publishing Success Story

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:34:32 +0000

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: A Self-Publishing Success Story Andrew Sullivan posted an email from a reader - who we've reviewed and interviewed in the past - about his leap from self-publishing to AmazonEncore (which I didn't know had happened, so congrats Tim!). He writes:

After finishing a first draft of the manuscript, I jumped through all the typical hoops: got an agent, wrote a fat book proposal, [...]

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:17:45 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath I don't think literary fiction will ever outsell commercial fiction (at least not for a couple of centuries), but I'm just saying at some point more literary readers will have ereaders so different sorts of writing will be more successful. People probably won't be making Konrath money, but it will be possible to at least [...]

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Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated]

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:44:54 +0000

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated] I'm very happy about Konrath's success. It's encouraging to everybody. If I make 1/10 of what he's making, I'll be ecstatic. But there's sometimes a problem with writers like Konrath or Cory Doctorow touting their success when they're each in a very unique position. Doctorow advocates giving away books for free permanently because it's worked for [...]

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Henry Baum commented on the blog post Authors Need Analytics for Ebooks

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:42:40 +0000

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Authors Need Analytics for Ebooks Well, it would be no different than web analytics - so it logs traffic source, location, etc. but not a person's identity.

Author Central already tells you where in the country print books or sold - so I'm not sure why they can't at least let people know that about Kindle sales.

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Self-Publishing Review | RJ Keller | Friends Activity

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Review: God Hates Fags by Joe Wellman

Kristen Tsetsi wrote a new blog post: Video: Writer Stereotypes

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Their, There and Theyâre: Dude (or Dudette) You Need A Proofreader

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Cheryl Anne Gardner posted a new activity comment

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Cheryl Anne Gardner commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Book Sales Aren't Everything

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Book Sales Aren't Everything

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated]

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated]

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: A Self-Publishing Success Story

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Taking Issue with Konrath

Henry Baum wrote a new blog post: Taking Issue with Konrath [Updated]

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Authors Need Analytics for Ebooks

Henry Baum commented on the blog post Their, There and Theyâre: Dude (or Dudette) You Need A Proofreader