During a discussion with someone else about giving things away that you'd normally charge for, this insight came up: When you take the price tag off something, you deprive most people of the easiest way they have to gauge its value.

I meet a lot of folks at cons who aren't rich, but they've often doing okay and are at the con because they can ( Read more... )

The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) - Charlie's Diary
... if I wanted to spend my time marketing my books I'd have gone into marketing. I'm a writer. Every hour spent on marketing activities is an hour spent not writing. Ditto editing, proofreading, commissioning cover art, and so on. This is what I have publishers for. It's ( Read more... )

The folks at the Fan to Pro blog just posted an interview they conducted with me about self-publishing and the pitfalls therein.

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I was intrigued by your comment over at Jim Hines's journal that you had decided to go the self-publishing route, writing for the audience you had developed, even though you knew the limitations that that route imposes. How did you arrive at that decision?

Kind of a long story-but hey, it's the Internet, it's not like I'm going to run out ( Read more... )

There’s a discussion going on right now in the NaNo forums about bad books that inspired their readers-if only in the sense that if someone could write something this horrible and get it published, then the odds of one of us being able to pull that off should be pretty good, right?
It’s a pretty tempting thing to believe, but there’s one essential ( Read more... )

The None May Say blog, by a fellow who "[spends his] free time searching out POD ("Personal Outlay Developed" or, more traditionally, "Publish On Demand") books, movies and music", has just published a rave review of Summerworld.

With no nudging from me at all, he really nails what I wanted to bring across with the book.

Summerworld ... takes ( Read more... )