Publishing World Acclimating to the Digital Revolution
Like the record industry before it, the publishing industry is changing dramatically. Of the Big Seven publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown ...
What ‘FREE’ Means In Web World Speak
In the last two years that I've been offering free video quick query letter critiques, writers know that I post them sans all identifying information. Why do I offer this service? I'm ...
New York Times: First Review of Self-Published Author!
The author's name is Alan Sepinwall. '..... In“The Revolution Was Televised,” Mr. Sepinwall — who writes the blog “What’s Alan Watching?,” best known for its observant episode-by-episode commentary — analyzes ...
Next Amazon Novel Winners Will be Published by Amazon…Not Penguin
COMING SOON!
If you want to submit your novel to this contest, you need to get it ready for possible publication by Amazon! The inaugurial contest, held in 2012, offered the ...
Opening 2 Pages/Memoir: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop
In this Two Page Tell Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ the 2012 SCWC, the author reads the first two pages of her memoir...or is it? Would you turn ...
Tim Ferriss: Writing Is The Easy Part
Take a look at a day (or week) in the life of a NYT best selling independent author, Tim Ferriss. As I tell writers all the time,writing the book is ...
Entrepreneurial Authors, Can You Do What Book Publicists Do?
Not an endorsement of her services but I did like this Huff Post blog penned by a book marketer and author, Penny C. Sanvevieri. Here's what a traditional publicist does for ...
Simon & Schuster’s New Self Publishing Imprint: Archway Publishing
Yep, Simon & Schuster have joined the other titans of publishing by adding a self publishing arm that caused one commenter on PW to write this: There's a typo in ...
Opening 2 Pages/Zombie Fiction: MarketingtheMuse Video Workshop @ SCWC!
NEW! MarketingtheMuse Workshop filmed by Ninety Degrees Media @ The Southern California Writers Conference, Sept. 2012
Two Page Tell is a new workshop I've added to the MarketingtheMuse tutorials. Since so many writers are bypassing ...
Author Tim Ferriss Defies Traditional Publishing!
'.....Last week, Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust sold roughly 66,000 books through BookScan. If you walk into Barnes & Noble, you will likely see walls of her books, ...