To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish
At the Guardian, Ros Barber explains why she believes self-publishing is not a valid alternative to traditional routes:Traditional publishing is the only way to go for someone who writes literary...
View ArticleReading the Fine Print
Traditional publishers provide many services for authors, including fact-checking and obtaining permission for intellectual property. Self-publishing platforms don’t provide these services, and because...
View ArticleAmazon Unintentionally Rewards Scammers
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited product offers readers an all-you-can-eat model for book subscriptions. The books are mainly self-published titles (and Amazon pays authors by the number of pages read). The...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing Leads to Plagiarism
Self-publishing has never been easier, and that means plagiarism has never been easier. Thieves are using self-publishing services like Amazon to republish back catalog or out-of-print books to sell...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing Vs. Traditional Publishing
Who hasn’t felt that awkward moment between laughing and crying when the question, “do writers make money?” pops up? Unlike movie-makers and musicians, exact figures for authors’ earnings have always...
View ArticleEverything You Ever Wanted to Know about Publishing
At Electric Literature, Lincoln Michel talks about the “taboo” topic of book sales, and offers some advice for writers:Writers should absolutely write with an eye toward art, not markets. Thinking...
View ArticleProfitable Poetry
Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection, Milk and Honey, has sold almost half a million copies since its publication by Andrews McMeel Publishing last year, according to Anisse Gross in Publishers Weekly. While...
View ArticleWeekly Geekery
Are cheetahs sprinting toward extinction? Chinese-American writer Ken Liu brings “silkpunk” to science fiction. Self-publishing coaches—the new sexy in a Fifty Shades world. Under Italian mountains,...
View ArticleScratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
The title appears in gold on a giant fountain pen: Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. Floating around the pen on the pale green cover are a swath of handwritten names—Cheryl...
View ArticleWe Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen
It could be said Elizabeth Ellen is a literary godmother in the indie lit scene. As the deputy editor of Hobart Pulp, she has published countless emerging writers, generously giving of her time to...
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