What Makes a Best Seller Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll I read a really good blog about what makes a “Best Seller”. Rather than research and write my own, go read it. It’s really interesting. Have fun. http://allonbooks-thekingdomofallon.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-makes-book-bestseller.html#comment-form
In Galley Table 47 we talk publishing and promotion. On the ‘cast: Laura Nicole JP Losier Scott Roche “Doc” Coleman Allison Duncan – AuthorOutbreak.com Brand Gamblin – Author of Tumbler, Hidden Institute (Bear Polo!), and short stories included in FlagShip 1 and 4 and in his own short story collection. Enjoy! Amazon.com Widgets
Today’s guest post is brought to us by Allison Duncan aka @svallie. You can find her blog at http://allisondduncan.com/ where she… Well, we’ll let her tell you. Today she let’s us know how to improve our author blogs and truthfully, even if you’re not an author, if you have a blog there some good advice [...]
In episode twenty-eight we tackle e-book pricing. Guests: Zach Ricks Veronica Giguerre Jeff Hite Doc Coleman Scott Roche Mentioned: Zach vs Nate The Secret World Chronicle Baen Free Library E-book Pricing vs. Revenue MegaCon The Keepers A Midsummer Night’s Dream Pre-order Ginnie Dare! Trailer:The Hidden Institute
The circles I travel in seem to be awash with people who are self publishing. We’re all doing it for different reasons I suppose and the approaches to getting your work done and published and getting the word out are all different as well. In this post I want to talk about the “getting it [...]
Today, I want to offer you a little peek inside my mind. If I showed you more than that it would probably drive you insane so we will keep it down to a little peek. Flying Island Press is still a small company. We all wear many hats and when I wrote this I was [...]
In episode thirteen where we talk about Google Ebooks, e-book pricing, and what we want for Christmas. Guests: Zack Ricks Jeff Hite Laura Frechette Mike Plested Chris Moody Mentioned: Google Ebooks Paul Cooley / Tattoo Tracy Hickman’s workshop Baen’s free library Baen’s webscriptions The Baen cd’s Pan Digital Novel Scott Roche’s Smashwords Library Zombie Project [...]
Seriously. Who are you? If you’re a reader of FlagShip, who are you? Here’s what I think… If you’re a reader of FlagShip, you’re more technically savvy than your average person. You’re familiar with handling files, installing them on your e-reader or phone. You may not be totally familiar with the different e-text formats, but [...]
I’ve been looking over submissions for issue two, which have been trucking right along, thank you very much. I’ve been looking at some of the commentary we’ve been getting, which has on the whole been very positive, thank you also. One of the stated missions of Flying Island Press is to develop writers. Let me [...]
Most of us artistic types, I think it’s fair to say, don’t fully understand things like contracts and anything else that has to do with the business side of the house. Thankfully there are some people who can help you with that and we’d like to point you in the right direction. First you need [...]