self-publishing

The Only Constant is Change

Sara Lundberg - June 11, 2013

As the old adage goes, the only thing constant in life is change. Everything in life changes, and people are always left struggling to catch up. The publishing industry is no exception to this rule. With the introduction of electronic books and the rise of self publishing via websites like Create Space, LuLu, and Smashwords, […]

The Brave New Publishing World

Jack Campbell, Jr. - April 1, 2013

We stand on the edge of uncertainty. Publishing is changing, and for writers, that might as well be the apocalypse. The publishing industry as we know it is dissolving. The big publishers are merging, self-publishing and independent publishing have never had easier means of distribution. The writing world has changed. We should have known. It […]

Self-publication for Professionals

Aspen Junge - February 18, 2012

Everything I have ever written for money has been self-published, one way or another, but then the economics of copywriting-for-hire are not nearly the same as commercial fiction. The first book I ever wrote was “published” via a photocopier and a stack of three-ring binders [0]. This was back in the early 1990s, when desktop […]

Paul Swearingen - February 18, 2012

I’ve e-published six YA novels myself so far. I’ve purchased a few printed self-published books and downloaded several e-books. And my thoughts as I read most of the self-published books ran mostly to ‘hasn’t this writer ever heard of editing?’ At the bottom end, many e-books are simply gawdawful (and I’m not talking about 2,000-word […]

Too Vain for Vanity

Eliza Jaquays - February 17, 2012

Growing up, the only form of self-publishing I was aware of was vanity publishing and that only because it was the route my great-grandfather had taken. Up until very recently, whenever I thought of self-publishing my immediate thought was, “You mean I have to pay someone to publish my work?” After all, wasn’t the whole […]