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Resources for Kindle Authors and Publishers, from Steve Windwalker
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Virginia Ripple discusses the art of critique. It’s come to my attention that there are a lot of us who don’t have a clue how to honestly critique. We can tell you we like your story (or hate it), but we leave out the most important part — the why. […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Publetariat interviews author / blogger Sean Platt. Many Publetarians may be familiar with Sean Platt as the Writer Dad, Ghostwriter Dad, or through the Collective Inkwell site. In addition to those endeavors, Sean is also an author. In this interview, I talk to Sean about his many irons in the fire […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, we share this post by Kimberly Hitchens, founder of Booknook.biz, which originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective site on 10/4/11, and was reprinted on Publetariat in its entirety with that site’s permission. For those of you who’ve missed the latest, Amazon initially yanked and wirelessly replaced, and then removed entirely from sale, a […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Savvy Book Marketer Dana Lynn Smith talks author websites. The book! It seems obvious, right? But you’d be amazed at how hard it is to find information about the author’s book on some sites. It’s fine to have other content on your author website or blog, but make sure that it’s […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author M. Louisa Locke discusses the challenges in balancing writing with author platform. I ran across an excerpt of this interesting post entitled “My Book Ate my Blog” by Sophie Perinot on the Passive Voice blog (which if you haven’t discovered the Passive Guy yet, run right over and check him […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and publishing consultant Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. explains how to write a one-page business plan, and why it’s important for self-publishers to do so. This week, we’re pleased to promote another post from member Joseph C. Kunz Jr.‘s Publetariat blog to the front page. Whether you are about to self-publish […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and small publisher Alan Baxter ruminates on the new “crowdfunding” movement. Warning: this post contains some strong language. This is going to be one of those posts where I ramble on without any real direction and hope I discover a point along the way. “How is that different to any […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author, and founder and Editor in Chief of Publetariat April L. Hamilton takes a tongue-in-cheek look at internet trolls. ‘Author Platform’ is the buzzphrase of the moment. If you’re doing a good job of creating and maintaining that all-important communication channel between yourself and the public, it’s only a matter of […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Virginia Ripple talks about how helpful critique groups can be to any author. My husband is a big Star Wars fan. He watches all six movies often, though there’s a couple he watches more often than the rest. He collects the action figures (never call them toys to a “true” […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and digital media maven Piotr Kowalczyk introduces Hashtagstories. It’s almost a year since I started hashtagstories – microstories written with current Twitter hashtags. Sorry? Stories written with what? A year ago this was weird even to me. But it was just so inspiring to combine the world of hashtags into […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Melissa Conway addresses the bias against self-published authors and books. I thought I’d write about some of the issues that led to the creation of my popular video The Indie-Author Lament. By “popular,” I don’t mean viral or anything, I just mean it hit a nerve with a lot of […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Virginia Ripple shares the Critters critique group. My husband is a big Star Wars fan. He watches all six movies often, though there’s a couple he watches more often than the rest. He collects the action figures (never call them toys to a “true” collector). He rushes to the […]