The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2021–2022
by Jane Friedman, reprinted with permission. Since 2013, I have regularly updated this informational chart about the key book-publishing paths. It is available as a PDF download, ideal for photocopying…
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Factor Others into Your Book-Promotion Success
by Penny Sansevieri To many authors, book promotion is a necessary evil. When I put my author hat on, I totally get this. Why can’t you just spend all day…
About Dialogue
by Bobbie Christmas Q: I am a statistician. Much of the software I work on is related to communications and statistics. Your comment that 70 percent of novels should be…
Editor’s Choice March 2021
Amazon E-book Case Sprawls, Lawyers Propose Consolidation: Amazon and its co-conspirators’ anti-competitive agreements causes consumers to be overcharged for e-books purchased through retailers that compete with Amazon. Bookstore Sales Fell…
Editor’s Choice February 2021
Jeffrey Archer left St. Martin’s Press to publish with HarperCollins. A three-book, world English rights agreement was negotiated between HC UK’s Charlie Redmayne, Kate Elton, and Kimberley Young and Archer’s…
Otherworld Grumpuss Commemorative
A 2020 E2 Media Award for Best Independent Book, DVD, and CD Publishing Company promotes Otherworld‘s catalogue and inspires its 2021 Grumpuss Commemorative. The award is unique in that it…
About Front Matter
by Bobbie Christmas Q: What’s the difference between a foreword, an introduction, a preface, a prologue, and an epilogue? A: With the exception of the epilogue, all those items will…
Five Reasons Being an Indie Author Makes You a Small Business
by Penny C. Sansevieri Being an indie author means more than just fulfilling your dream of publishing the novel that’s been rattling around in your head for years! Deciding to…
My Writing Life: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
by Patricia Fry In honor of Valentine’s Day I’ll attempt to capture the elements of my career, which has kept me happily writing for forty-eight years. In 1973 I began…
More Impact for WPN Changemaker Authors!
Changemaker Collaboration Circle Unites Authors, Speakers, Leaders, Experts, Coaches, Filmmakers & Entrepreneurs in a Facebook Group to Foster Interaction, Client Attraction, Mutual Support and Goodwill by Jackie Lapin Changemakers who…