self-publishing

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.

I knew when I got into self-publishing I would have to compete with other authors' words. I did not, however, know that I was going to have to compete with so many sculpted abs!

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot _ and let __m know you__e written it! Then rinse and repeat.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

I__e had situations when I__e actually encouraged authors to self-publish because their book was poor. Now one would conclude that I__ asking them to self-publish because their book was poor and the self-publishing warehouse is where all the poor books belong. But no, it__ because __oor_ is only my opinion, and I__ just one in millions of readers.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the pool boy.The other half are writing reviews of

Remember, we all make our work available in a commercial transaction, the terms of which we, ourselves, dictate. If we give it away for free, that__ our decision, and there is no refuge in the lame defense, __hat do you want for nothing?_ The buyer does not waive his right to express his opi

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur__r APE.

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn__ easy, but it__ fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that__ one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

I have a hardcore attitude: a __elf-published, ghost-written book_ is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. Whenpeople read a book__articularly a self-published one__hey have the right to expect that it__ the person__ writing, not cleaned-up dictation or slapping a name on a book that someone else wrote.

It's a difficult path that we tread, us Indie self-publishers, but we're not alone. How many bands practicing in their dad__ garage have heard of a group from the neighbourhood who got signed by a recording company? Or how many artists who love to paint, but are not really getting anywhere with it hear of someone they went to art school with being offered an exhibition in a gallery? How many chefs who love to get creative around food hear of someone else who__ just landed a job with Marco Pierre White? There__ no difference between us and them. There is, however, a huge difference in how everyone else perceives the writer. And there__ a huge difference between all of us _ the writers, the musicians, the composers, the chefs, the dance choreographers and to a certain extent the tradesmen - and the rest of society in that no one understands us. It__ a wretched dream to hope that our creativity gets recognised while our family thinks we__e wasting our time when the lawn needs mowing, the deck needs painting and the bedroom needs decorating. It__ acceptable to go into the garage to tinker about with a motorbike, but it__ a waste of a good Sunday afternoon if you go into the garage and practice your guitar, or sit in your study attempting to capture words that have been floating around your brain forever.

10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you__e writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.

Check the top 1000 books on Amazon. Most of them have a shirtless guy on the cover, because they're smutty "romance novels" (read: porn for women) about a girl being swept off her feet by one (or more) billionaire alpha-males. There are literally tens of thousands of books out there about shirtless billionaire alpha-male vampires who can't wait to mate with you. Lucky you! And women eat that shit up! Men, not so much. Men prefer to watch actual porn.