Interview with Scott Nicholson

[jimhines]

I met Scott Nicholson in 1999. We were both first place Writers of the Future winners that year, but Scott snatched the grand prize with his tale of a vampire shortstop. Scott was also the first of our WotF group to “make it big,” landing a deal with Kensington for his novel The Red Church  [Amazon | B&N]. Yes, I had much envy

Comments

[kmarkhoover]

this was a cool interview and it helped me understand some things

thanks! :)

[lenora_rose]

Good interview, and I liked the way he talked (I am personally bad enough at marketing that i would rather go via traditional publishing for now, but not out of any dislike or disdain for self-publishing. I know what I'm good at, and sales has always been a severe weakness.)

One nitpick: Vanity publishing IS a whole different thing from self-publishing. Vanity publishing is the thing where you pay someone else to pretend to be a real publisher for you, and they steal your money and sell nothing. Self-publishing is that thing where you do the work yourself, and sell something.

[rymrytr]

At this point, I don’t care what anyone thinks except my readers, who are my only customers.

Listen to readers. - The only labels they care about are “good” and “crap.”

I'm having this tattooed on the back of my hands, on on the left, one on the right. Every time I set fingers to keyboard, I'll be reminded! :o)

[margaret_y]

Interesting interview! It's so refreshing to hear from someone who doesn't have an "us" vs. "them" attitude. Self publishing ebooks is just a new great option for writers, that's all.

Off to buy Scott's book now!

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[ext_520462]

Thanks, Margaret! Yes, I am over the whole combative thing. I want EVERYONE to succeed. It's a better world for all of us when we all get to do what we want without knocking someone else down.

Scott