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Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: Why Indie Authorship is Viable 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Okay so on “pimp my novel”: Prithee Convince Me: Self-Publishing the blog poster wants self-publishing authors to “convince him” that self-publishing is a viable alternative to trad publishing. According to his blog bio, he works in the sales department of a publishing house. What’s most interesting is in the comments section, almost all of the people commenting [...] -
Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma 1 year, 11 months ago · View
So here is the thing… There is a lot of talk about the “stigma” of self-publishing. But for the most part this stigma is rather contained. For example: Mainstream Publishers/Agents: They don’t really care whether you self-publish or not. I mean think about this for a moment. If you’re self-publishing, you’re one less manuscript in their slush pile. [...] -
Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
So here is the thing…
There is a lot of talk about the “stigma” of self-publishing. But for the most part this stigma is rather contained. For example:
Mainstream Publishers/Agents: They don’t really care whether you self-publish or not. I mean think about this for a moment. If [...]1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
I should have mentioned in my original comment that this post is awesome and I get what you’re saying and appreciate what you’re saying. Just re-read my comments and realized I totally side-tracked that part cause I got hung up on the money part of it. But the truth is, for most authors no matter [...]
2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
Hey Hamish, I know it wasn’t a pot shot, lol. I hope I didn’t come off like I thought it was.
And I agree. There does need to be some balance. If someone just wants to make money, lord there are many easier industries to get into!
2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
Hamish,
I think I’m probably far more calculating than the average indie author. But I’m proud to wear that banner.
2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
Jenn,
Edison held out hope over a thousand times before he got his lightbulb groove working. If he’d quit after the 29th try we might all still be living in candlelight.2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
Dude, I said your name twice in one sentence. Why do I hit “submit” before re-reading? I swear. Gah.
2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
hehehe Jenn, we really have to work on your optimism button Jenn. The human being can and often does live to be 100. Yes some people die before that, but no one assumes they’ll die when they’re fifty and decides 25 is middle aged. 50 is middle-aged for a human being. You are [...]
2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post If You’re In It For The Money…
hmmmm. See, I don’t believe in the starving artist mentality. Period. Now do I think I’m going to get rich and famous? Well probably not. But there is QUITE a range of monetary reward between starving artist and rich and famous. I fully expect to be making a full living from my self-publishing endeavors [...]
2 years ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post Self-Published Books Leading at Smashwords
Congrats you guys!
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Zoe Winters commented on the blog post The Eyes of Editing
Hey Vicki! A certain number of errors inevitably creep into any text, though I’m always hoping it will be mild punctuation errors in my work because with spelling errors and typos some readers get jarred momentarily from the story, but if I’ve got a comma instead of a semi-colon accidentally, for example, “most” readers [...]
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Zoe Winters wrote on Robert C. Nelson’s wire:
Thanks! Sorry it took me so long to accept your friend request. I had to do the FBI background check first. Just kidding. I talk a lot about publishing on my blog too: http://zoewinters.wordpress.com
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: Social Networking: It's Not Enough to Sign Up
Cross-posted at zoewinters.wordpress.com.
There are nearly infinite social networking sites in cyberspace meant for authors to promote themselves and their work. General sites would include Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Author Specific sites would include: Author’s Den, Red Room, Nothing Binding, and BookBuzzr. In addition, there is [...]2 years, 7 months ago · View
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zoe-winters wrote a new blog post: Amazon: And So it Begins
Cross-posted at zoewinters.wordpress.com.
I’ve said for awhile now, that though I appreciate the opportunities Amazon gives to indie authors, that we shouldn’t be “too” grateful because they are ripping us off on Kindle sales. On Kindle we only get 35% cut, that’s less than industry standard [...]2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: Social Networking: It's Not Enough to Sign Up 2 years, 7 months ago · View
Cross-posted at zoewinters.wordpress.com. There are nearly infinite social networking sites in cyberspace meant for authors to promote themselves and their work. General sites would include Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Author Specific sites would include: Author’s Den, Red Room, Nothing Binding, and BookBuzzr. In addition, there is the marketing power of Amazon itself, where you can have [...] -
Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: Amazon: And So it Begins 2 years, 7 months ago · View
Cross-posted at zoewinters.wordpress.com. I’ve said for awhile now, that though I appreciate the opportunities Amazon gives to indie authors, that we shouldn’t be “too” grateful because they are ripping us off on Kindle sales. On Kindle we only get 35% cut, that’s less than industry standard for a publisher, and not only that, but it’s an ebook, [...] -
Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: Why We Should Embrace Self-Publishing 2 years, 8 months ago · View
On the surface, self publishing sounds like a really bad idea. Despite denials to the contrary, it seems that one of the biggest fears in the back of people’s minds is that of supply and demand. With self publishing we have more and more books in the marketplace, but most people don’t seem to have [...] -
Zoe Winters wrote a new blog post: Why We Should Embrace Self-Publishing
On the surface, self publishing sounds like a really bad idea. Despite denials to the contrary, it seems that one of the biggest fears in the back of people’s minds is that of supply and demand. With self publishing we have more and more books in the [...]
2 years, 8 months ago · View
