Publishing Options

Apr 28, 2024 | Business of Writing, Writing

We live in an author’s world. It used to be that authors were dependent on publishers for getting their work out into the world and getting paid for their labors. Publishers were the ones with all the power and authors were completely at their mercy. An author,...

Sequels

Jun 18, 2023 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

It’s my daughter’s birthday today (Friday, as I write this)—she’s turned 27—and she’s given me an hour to get this blog written before I take her out. We’re going to engage in two of her favorite pastimes—sitting at a café with a cup of coffee and a pastry (something...

Are our books etched in stone?

Nov 18, 2021 | Blog, Self-publishing, Writing

It used to be that once a book was published, that was it. It was done. It was as if it had been etched in stone. Once it went to the printer, there was no changing it – unless your book happened to get a second edition, which most works of genre fiction don’t. So you...

IngramSpark or KDP Print?

Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Business of Writing, Self-publishing, Writing

I’ve recently had a client ask me to upload their book to Ingram Spark. Since it’s not a service I use on a regular basis and I knew they’d been doing some upgrading and changing of their interface, I decided to pop over and upload a book of mine so that I’d know what...