Interviews | Self-Publishing Review

How to Write Kindle Articles: Kate Harper

I’m Kate Harper and I write articles for the Kindle. I recently published a 43 page booklet called “How to Publish and Sell Your Article on the Kindle: 12 Steps for Short Documents.” I’ve found that most people don’t realize you can publish and sell articles and short documents on the Kindle.

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

It was actually an accident. I was helping a girlfriend convert her book for the Kindle but before I posted it, I wanted to experiment on something small, so I pulled a travel article […]

Kate Harper2011-02-25T15:45:41+02:00February 25th, 2011|Categories: Interviews, Resources|

An Interview With Ryan Lybeck, Graphic Designer

You never know where a connection may be lurking.

I have Moo cards of all my books, with the front cover on one side, in full color and almost exactly the same aspect ratio as the finished book, and my website and email address on the back. I’m far too willing to ask people, after only a few moments of casual conversation, whether they are a reader, and if the answer is yes, to hand them one of these cards. Sometimes the results are more than what I’d hoped for.

Jennifer, a young lady who works at the local Blockbuster […]

Levi Montgomery2020-02-21T03:39:05+02:00February 24th, 2011|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Book Cover Design Tips|

Emily Hill Interviews with Self-Publishing Review

An Interview with Emily Hill, author of “All Smart Cookies Can Self Publish: A Step by Step 2011 Guide to Independent Publishing” and also “JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner”

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published
traditionally?

I came to ‘the dark side’ ;] after attending the Summer 2010 PNWA conference. Andres Dubois, the Welcome speaker had asked the sea of 500 writers how many had found their agent that year…he waited for the response scanning the audience. Five writers raised their hands. Five out of five hundred were not good odds in my book […]

Emily Hill2011-02-23T15:57:22+02:00February 23rd, 2011|Categories: Interviews|

A brief interview with Jeff Thomason

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I wrote a book and was only going to publish it on the Kindle, but I was so pleased with how it turned out, I decided to offer it in print. I had very specific ideas about the format, the cover, the layout, and the illustrations I wanted in the book. Friends of mine who have published thru traditional routes have told me how little (ie. none) control they had over the actual design and printing of the book. I knew I could do what I […]

Jeff Thomason2014-05-06T10:27:08+02:00February 22nd, 2011|Categories: Interviews|

Interview with self-publisher D.W. Richards

D.W. Richards is a member of the Canadian Authors Association and beyond being a novelist he is also a script-doctor and freelance writer. An excerpt from Pairs will appear in the October 2010 issue of the international literary PDF quarterly Cantarville as a standalone fiction piece. In addition to creative writing, D.W. Richards has a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Carleton University and is a Certified General Accountant. He divides his time between Venice, Italy and Ottawa, Canada.

Visit his website at www.pairsthenovel.com or connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DW_Richards.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Pairs[…]

Dorothy2014-05-06T11:05:51+02:00February 16th, 2011|Categories: Interviews|

Interview with Humor Author Rose A. Valenta

Rose A. Valenta is a nationally syndicated humor columnist. Her irreverent columns have been published in Senior Wire, Associated Content, Courier Post Online, NPR, Newsday, USA TODAY, the WSJ Online, and many other local news and radio websites.

She is the author of Rosie’s Renegade Humor Blog. This is the blog for people who would be knowledgeable about current events and politics if only politicians and news anchors didn’t stretch the truth. “What else is there to do, but share an honest laugh?” Rose said.

Rose regularly attends the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of […]

Dorothy2011-02-10T15:30:42+02:00February 10th, 2011|Categories: Interviews|

Greetings from Charles D. Blanchard

My name is Charles D. Blanchard. My debut novel, Mourning Doves After The Fire, was published last fall by Xlibris: www.mourningdovesafterthefire.com.

Here are my interview responses.

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally? I did not seek traditional publishing as this is my first published work and the idea of attempting to seek an agent who would genuinely represent a first time novelist and attempt to convince a publishing house to “take a chance” on me, was too daunting a task to even contemplate.

2. What self-publishing service did you use? […]

Charles D. Blanchard2011-02-09T16:18:53+02:00February 9th, 2011|Categories: Interviews, Member Blog|

Author Introduction/Interview: Ravis Harnell

Hello. I’m Ravis. I write a lot of stuff that could nominally be called horror–because I love horror and other genre fiction–and some stuff that falls under whatever the currently trendy term might be for contemporary lit that’s based in the real world, yet contains elements of the fantastical. I recently self-published an e-novella called Ghostwriter.

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I did pass around a novel to agents, first-novel competitions, etc., and really came to the conclusion that there’s a certain vicious cycle to traditional mainstream publishing–“we’ll be interested […]

Ravis Harnell2011-02-07T15:23:29+02:00February 7th, 2011|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Smashwords Tips and Articles|