The conversation was about the “rules.” Mr. McGrumpypants insisted that he knew what agents and editors wanted, despite having never actually landed an agent, and having only been “edited” by a very, very small press publisher who went out of business shortly thereafter, and many years later by a one-man shop “e-book publisher.” In spite [...]
I was over snooping around some aspiring writers’ site and it hit me. People pay big bucks to get opinions on their work. Back in my Authonomy days, I heard of writers spending hundreds of dollars for “critiques” by professional editing services. One author published her critique, which basically advised her to dumb it down [...]
I put my novella, The Death Trip up on Smashwords for free in November 2009 as my self-publishing “beta.” I put it up separately on Kindle for 99 cents. Since this was an experiment and I was simply hoping to attract readers, not make money, I would have happily put it on Kindle for free [...]
Continue reading about Publishing on Kindle? Read the Fine Print

Recent Comments