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Maybe I need to find a writing group.
There is a specific type of activity in role playing games (which are, by design, social gatherings) that is importantly and essentially NOT a social activity, and it goes back perhaps to the very...
View ArticleHow the Publishing Industry works (or… you know… doesn’t)
Kate’s been posting some interesting stuff about the way the publishing industry is, and how it’s possibly changing in the future. Today’s post is a chunk of Google Talk conversation that she and I had...
View ArticleThey stole my screed…
Advertisements for Yourself – The Big Money People in the book business rarely agree on much, but no one disputes that the long-suffering industry is slogging through one of its worst periods ever....
View ArticleBig Chain Bookstore Deathwatch (publetariat.com)
Publetariat points out the absence of the emperor’s clothes in this post: Do you remember precisely when you stopped going to chain music stores like Musicland and Tower Records, and why? For me, a...
View ArticleCompiling notes from the Tools of Change conference
My Twitter page is drowning under a tweetstorm of posts from people at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference. It’s really amazing how, with so many people posting snippets from each talk, you can...
View ArticleI think I know what indie book publishing is going to look like
Over on the Writers Digest website, someone named Jane writes a series called There Are No Rules. Her most recent post is “My Big Rant on Self-Publishing”. It starts out like this: I can’t tell you how...
View Article(Anticlimatic) attack of the POD people
Here’s a little story for you. A few years ago, I found out a friend of mine had written a book. A real-life book! I was going to meet this person face to face, so I bought their book off Amazon,...
View ArticleEnvironmental Impact of E-books
Read an E-Book Week – Environmental Impact of E-books. Lots of research with inconclusive results — still, interesting read, and a fine kick off to Read an E-book Week.
View ArticlePublishing is changing. Publishers? Well…
Piracy and changing distribution schema will not kill the publishing industry. Shortsighted infrastructure-protection on the part of publishing houses will. So speaks Susan Piver in an article in which...
View ArticlePubletariat Interview: New mediums, Twitter, and storytelling
Last week, I was interviewed by April over at Publetariat about the story I’m telling via Twitter. As one of the central touchstones for the indie publishing movement, she thought the whole idea of...
View ArticleStoryball idea goes mainstream, pays authors
Hey, any of you folks remember those Storyballs we write all the time? Well, someone figured out how to take the Fun Thing and turn it into the The Fun Thing Where You Get Paid. Collaborative Creative...
View ArticleSimon & Schuster reducing e-book royalties
Simon & Schuster reducing e-book royalties | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home. Doesn’t make any sense. The main thing publishers do for writers today is handle the complexities of publishing. The...
View ArticlePenguin demonstrates it can be taught
Penguin Reaches out to Literary Bloggers. Last week, literary bloggers around the country debated the SXSW Festival’s “New Think for Old Publishers” panel that included Penguin marketing director, John...
View ArticleHow to give readers their tree-book fix as an indie author?
Publishing today is a confusing mess of issues. Am I doomed to slave wages as a mid-list author? Worse, will I end up losing money? Does the ‘vanity press’ stigma still exist? If so, does it exist for...
View ArticleWhy all the indie-publishing posts, Doyce?
I’m being interviewed by another writing site in a few days (this one live, via Skype, with someone in Austrailia – it’s is SO COOL to live in the future), and they were kind enough to send me some of...
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The New Frontier of Indie Publishing has already been Mapped Out (on a...
Before I get into this, I need to lay out a couple concepts that I’m referencing here. Concept One: The Long Tail “The Long Tail” describes the “niche” strategy of businesses like Amazon.com or Netflix...
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Wizards of the Coast takes a… novel approach to dealing with PDF piracy
And by “novel”, I mean to say “utterly stupid and short-sighted.” Earlier this evening RPGNow, Paizo, and DriveThruRPG pulled all of their Wizards of the Coast PDF products (where both new and much...
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A bit of conversation
SO here’s a talk I had this morning: Website: *explodes* Me: …the hell? Website: What? Me: You just exploded. Website: Nuh uh. Me: Yes. You did. You are still exploded, in fact. Website: Well… Me:...
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This is How I Get It Done: Making a quick ebook with Jutoh
This one’s going to be short, because I’ve kind of been looking at this screen all day. A few days ago, I asked if anyone would be interested in getting all of my NaNoWriMo advice posts pulled together...
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