It is time that authors realize that publishers are no longer what they once were. Why? Good editors are everywhere and cost $2000 or less. Good book cover designers are everywhere and cost $500 or less. Good print layout designer are $500 or less. Good publicist/marketer is $500 a month ($6k a year). Some, not […]
Despite what Hachette believes, Amazon is not a monopoly. They might be a large market share holder for book and eBook sales, but Amazon has competition: B&N iBooks Google Play Books Kobo Smashwords Sony Anytime, I want, I can change my novel selling focus from Amazon to focus on any of these other companies. So where is […]
So I wanted to get some low cost bookmarks from VistaPrint but I couldn’t find any bookmarks. I checked another site and it was over $100 for 1000 two-sided bookmarks. I feel like it should be about half that. It seems Vista Print should be able to do this cheaper but they don’t have a […]
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I wrote Fire Light in first person. Honestly, in my first draft, I never described my main character. My awesome editor, Sarah Bylund, pointed this out to me. Describing your character is not required. In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the main character, Anne Elliot is never described. However, I felt like my character Jake needed to […]
I have an promotional post running on Fantasy and Sci-Fi Rock My World’s fan page. They have 300,000 subscribers. The more likes and comments and shares I get the more people the post will go to.
Goodreads Book Giveaway Fire Light by J. Abram Barneck Giveaway ends April 30, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
Some authors want to add progress bars to their blog. However, most authors are not web designers or developers. So they don’t know how to do this. Well, there is a secret in the html development world. The secret is that “Everything is easy once you know how to do it.” Yes, it is actually pretty […]