George H. Sirois and Will Entrekin are now friends 1 year, 6 months ago
The New Podler and Will Entrekin are now friends 1 year, 6 months ago
Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post What Self-Publishing Isn’t 2 years, 1 month ago
Great post! I do think that all the “digital publishing changes everything” talk is true for the industry itself (dinosaurs of the publishing world are going to have to evolve into birds or go extinct). But it certainly doesn’t change the landscape of the reading public. Want to make a whole bunch of money self [...]
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post 5 creative book marketing and promotion tips with fiverr.com 2 years, 2 months ago
I also tried a similar fiverr deal months ago, both for my author blog and the Favorite Thing Ever site. They worked as advertised, and brought hundreds of new fans to my facebook pages. But facebook traffic to my sites never jumped much because of these fans — I wasn’t reaching people who actually cared [...]
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Self-Publishing Killed the Vanity Press 2 years, 2 months ago
That may very well be true, but due to the distribution channels, realities of ebook pricing and attitudes of e-book early adopters, many indie authors are finding that they sell a heck of a lot more books to the growing digital crowd than they ever could to the (potentially larger) group of people who still [...]
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Matt Youngmark wrote a new blog post: Is Google the future of eBooks? 2 years, 4 months ago
As I’ve mentioned, I love my Kindle ( I really do ), but I’m not crazy in love with the Kindle store. I went to download a book the other day, and and it seriously took me like fifteen minutes to pull the trigger. The problem wasn’t the $9.99 I was paying — I would have gladly paid [...] -
Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Cool Book Launch Idea from Webcomic Pros 2 years, 7 months ago
UPDATE 2:
Victory! Machine of Death is published by Bearstache Books, a company wholly owned by one of the editors/contributors (he primarily publishes collections of his webcomic, Wondermark). So it’s self-published in a very real sense.
Savor it — a self-published book is #1 at Amazon right now.
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Cool Book Launch Idea from Webcomic Pros 2 years, 7 months ago
UPDATE: Today’s the day of the big push, and as of 9:30 am PST, Machine of Death is the #2 best selling book at Amazon.com (just below the new Keith Richards biography, and above Glen Beck). It’s also discounted at 45%, so if you’ve got an extra $10 laying around, help “The Little Indy That [...]
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Matt Youngmark wrote a new blog post: Cool Book Launch Idea from Webcomic Pros 2 years, 7 months ago
I thought this was an interesting way to do a book launch: The creators of some popular webcomics have a new book coming out next week called Machine of Death (a collection of short stories from a whole mess of folks), and they’re asking all their fans to buy the book on the same day in an [...] -
Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post What Can Self-Publishers Learn from Comics? 2 years, 8 months ago
I think self-publishers can learn A LOT from comics creators — particularly the way independent comics folks are adapting to new media and carving out new business models out of whole cloth. Phil & Kaja Foglio at Girl Genius, for example, discovered that they sell more books by publishing their comic in free web installments, [...]
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Favorite Thing Ever 2 years, 8 months ago
Thanks for the shout out, Henry! Really, FTE probably falls under the category of “something else I’m doing that feeds into my book promotion efforts.” Some of the bloggers there are authors hoping to raise their profiles, and others are just blogging for the joy of it. Still, I maintain that I’m more likely to [...]
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Resource: UpHype – Get Your Message Out 2 years, 10 months ago
Just fyi, the guy has apparently had a computer crash, so the tweets he was going to do never happened. He contacted me after the fact, though, and I was able to cancel the job and get my $8 back. So the Uphype service itself appears to be above-board
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Resource: UpHype – Get Your Message Out 2 years, 10 months ago
What the hell, I’ve got 8 bucks. I’m trying this out — the 121,000 followers guy is going to tweet me up on Monday. I’ll report back next week with my findings.
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George H. Sirois posted an update: 3 years ago
”Excelsior” is finally finished! It’s currently in the hands of Infinity Publishing for a July 2010 release!!!
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
Man, I actually miss my 2-hour commute. It was on a train, and that’s where I wrote about 70% of Zombocalypse Now!
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
Haven’t jumped onboard Twitter yet, but you can be my facebook friend if you’d like. http://www.facebook.com/mattyoungmark
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
Nova — I think it’s certainly true that agents are only looking for something that they think will sell, but I hardly fault them for that. It’s pretty much their job. It’s always tough when our own work is at stake, but we should keep in m mind that publishers…
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
Thanks for the kind words Zoe (also, I AM NOT BITCHES:)) Can’t claim that paranormal romance is really my bag, but I will say that our book looks as good as the ones I see at the supermarket, and your website is super fancy!
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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
It’s called Zombocalypse Now (I’m not sure why my name on the post doesn’t link to my website like everybody else’s, clearly I have set up my profile weird) and you can check it out at http://www.chooseomaticbooks.com
And don’t get me wrong, I try to treat everybody with… -
Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
Put out a great, professional-looking book, and nobody cares if it’s self-published. In my experience, there is no self-publishing stigma.
There is, however, a stigma associated with bad writers publishing unreadable books, but you know what? There should be. I’ve… - Load More
