Tag: #indiepublishing
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The importance of removing Weasel words
Here’s the thing, just so you know, and then the next thing, these are all fillers—unnecessary words that have to go. “The fox darted between the trees” tells the reader the same thing as “the fast fox darted between the trees.” The nature of the word “darted” tells the reader the action was fast. Weasel…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I’ve been busy
It’s been ages since I posted on my blog, and I have never focused on what’s happening in my life unless it’s through poetry or my fitness journey. The biggest change is that my personal blog is now Fiery Publishing. The last several months have been about setting Fiery Publishing as an indie publishing house…