Category: Uncategorized
-
Book fair
For all of those who like a good sci-fi fantasy reads, check out this virtual book fair. They work by listing your book for a small fee and then all authors on the list, share the list of books. There are new to established authors, and on a cold night as this, I’m going to…
-
AI and marketing
Chat GPT is getting plenty of press at the moment in writing circles. The feedback from experienced authors is that the results are generic and requires plenty of effort to go in and add a distinctive voice. We get that. Feedback from inexperienced writers is that it is wonderful and a quick way of producing…
-
So you’ve written a book; what now?
We see any number of writers excited by having finished the first draft of a manuscript. And so they should be. This is a massive accomplishment. K J Matthews (one of our authors) has started over 3000 stories and finished a few more than a handful. But what do you do next? Do you rush…
-
What’s the difference between a self-published or an Indie author?
The short answer to this is “not a lot”. For reasons such as distancing themselves from self-published claptrap (because some of it is), some authors decided to call themselves independent publishers. I am sure there is more history to it than that, but a self-published author publishes their work (with or without outsourcing). An Indie…
-
Why be an indie publisher?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE When I started writing, my mother said never to self-publish because“real” authors didn’t self-publish. She wasn’t being harsh; she wasreflecting on the time when print-on-demand publishing wasn’t possible(pre-Amazon!). She had a point. For KJ Matthews to publish a novella would have beenimpossible. Traditional publishers weren’t interested in…