Archive for the ‘Self-Publishing & Print On Demand’ Category
Sunday, September 9th, 2012
The Toronto chapter of the Editors' Association of Canada is sponsoring two of my workshops this fall: How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days and How to Self-publish and Market your Print on Demand and e-Book. Information on the Print on Demand workshop is below.
This self-publishing workshop ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
Over the last year, I've converted 10 of my 15 books to Kindles and 8 of them to ePubs. It's been a challenging learning experience, but it's also been absolutely well worth it. For most of my books, my monthly e-book sales now equal, and often exceed, my print book ...
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
In this blog post, I respond to "Why social media isn't the magic bullet for self-epublished authors", an article published recently in the Guardian.
I can't speak for other writers, but I wouldn't want to spend 100% of my time as a writer (based on the last line in the article). ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
By Heather Grace Stewart
I’m a poet. Okay, I trained as a journalist and have worked as an associate editor for four national magazines. I’ve heard all the jokes and stereotypes about poets, so I didn’t have the courage to call myself one until I was 33. I was a ...
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Saturday, May 26th, 2012
A friend of mine told me he was starting to write a non-fiction book. I congratulated him and asked, “Have you answered your who, what, where, when and why yet?”
“I’m writing a book,” he said, “not a news article. I don’t need to answer the W5.”
I suggested that he take ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
“Publishing used to be an industry. Now it’s a button.”
That aphorism by NYU professor Clay Shirky overstates the case, but only a little.
I signed up to write my sixth book back in the olden days of 2005. Seems like only yesterday, right?
But from a writer’s point of view, 2005 might ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
A Tale of Self-Publishing
From an article written for the Writers' Union of Canada
By Paul Lima
In 2009, 76% of all books released were self-published, according to Publishers Weekly. Since then, the industry has all but stopped keeping stats. The number of self-published print and e-books continue to grow exponentially while the ...
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
In "20 months Hocking has sold 1.5m books and made $2.5m" ... all through self-publishing! - Disbelief! But true...
Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
If you are interested in learning a bit more (non-technical) information about self publishing, you might want to read my blog posts on POD (print on demand) and e-books:
- Print on demand: Self-publishing getting started primer
- POD authors go Kindle, ePub: Here’s a bit of a primer
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
I can't believe how How To Write A Non-fiction Book In 60 Days and several other of my books on writing and freelance writing continue to sell well on Amazon - in the US and the UK, especially as Kindles. I am doing no promotion, other than the odd tweet ...
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