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The Blinders are Still in Place
Ten years. That is approximately how long it’s been since Amazon first allowed the infidels to dip their toes into the sacred waters of publishing. From the beginning, traditional publishing has taken...
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It’s not your ancestor’s Vellum
Brad asked me to fill in for him this morning, so I thought I’d continue the formatting and publishing series I started last month. In this post, I mentioned a Mac-only program a friend used that I’d...
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Reader Expectations: What’s Inside
This popped up at the Passive Voice the other day: https://booklife.com/create/art-design/06/28/2015/top-five-diy-book-layout-mistakes.html Do your books look like books? No, not as in they have...
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Hachette CEO a shining example. . .
of how out-of-touch much of publishing is when it comes to what their customers want. Arnaud Nourry is a walking, talking example of publishing trying to hold to the old model. Not only does he fail to...
View ArticleBut will they learn?
This isn’t the post I was going to write this morning. I had it all planned out. Then I made the mistake of dropping by The Passive Voice and one of the stories there caught my eye. Okay, it did more...
View ArticleThey did What?
Today is one of those days when I couldn’t decide on a topic for a post. No, not because there isn’t anything out there that interested me but because too many things did. So I whittled it down to...
View ArticlePseudo-history and paperbacks
I have managed to get the paperback of Cloud-Castles up (the text is a link on which I get a few pennies of commission. I was going to hold back on announcing it until I had my author copies in hand...
View ArticleAlas, Poor Trad Publishing
The last week or so has been anything but smooth sailing for traditional publishing. You could almost believe the success of Brandon Sanderson’s oh so successful Kickstarter campaign kicked off a time...
View ArticleSave the Dragons
Just over twelve years ago, we were in the throes of emigrating from South Africa to this little island off the coast of Tasmania. It was a nightmarish, expensive bureaucratic process, that was...
View ArticleRe-release me, let me go
I really always thought that was regrease me, let me glow... Today's prompt from wordpress was 'Who do you envy?' My thought at the moment would be people who don't have to play the waiting game for,...
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