Andrew Wiley is an author’s agent.  With the pangs and pains of a new book selling model convulsing the industry, many agents who depend on traditional publishing for their cut of the author’s take are near-panicked. Their slices of pie (the money an author makes for their stories) are dwindling. It’s not complicated.  If authors [...]

Multi-published author Michael Stackpole has put books up for sale from his own store.  He’s simultaneously publishing on Kindle. Crunching the numbers. The few authors who can get advances they count on, are slaves to corporate profit–of which they make a minuscule percentage. If they don’t make the publishers money, their contracts and advances will [...]

Popular sentiment has been against an author posting their novel if they plan to sell it.  Reality has made sentiment wrong. Know this about the publishing industry: 1)  Traditional publishers are mostly owned by huge corporations, thus basically all they care about is money. 2)  The people who run publishing are ruled by the corporate [...]

A fifteen year old, Abigail Gibbs, has gotten 6.5 million reads the online fiction site, Wattpad. Talk about getting the word out! The online fiction sites are ideal for getting your fiction out there. You have to be good enough for people to pay you for your writing, and those sites have traffic that will [...]

I believe my goal for WritersRooms as an affordable and easy hub to set up authors with sites–platforms where they can sell their books directly from their own space is a good idea. But reader traffic is the problem. How is an author going to get the necessary volume of readers to his/her site? Sites [...]

Jeff Walker’s product launched yesterday (nope, never did approve me as an affiliate or answer e-mail). Let’s study how a big time, fancy launch guru does it. He offered free stuff, a video and a mind map. Then, he hand picked affiliates with big lists and well-trafficked web sites to yak it up by giving [...]

How can we measure whether writing is lofty enough to be called art or even any good at all? To me, this is a wholly subjective call. When it’s fancy people with big degrees or importance calling the shot, we tend to take their word for what they deem as worthy or not. ‘Cause they [...]

I really dislike videos. But, they are easy to do and people perceive them as high value. It’s a lot faster to knock out a video than writing clean and compelling copy.  Somebody recently sent me a crap load of Internet Marketing videos.  I especially like Frank Kern.  He’s a cutie and knows what he’s [...]

Some might say they already are, but I’m not getting into that.  My thought was sparked by Laura Miller’s article on Salon, When anybody can get published.   Self publishing is losing its tarnish, starting to look  shiny even to established authors because it’s easy and if done right, doesn’t take a lot of up front [...]

Bitches Be Jockin’ My Style They Be Jackin’ My Swagga For those who need translation, this means folks ripping off your ideas or other intangibles such as your style. A lot of people are afraid to actually try new things even though the maxim of nothing ventured, nothing gained is true. They worry about what [...]