Today is World Autism Awareness day. Last year we released a special issue to benefit Autism Speaks. That issue is cram packed with excellent fiction and we’d love it if you’d go get it. As someone whose son falls on the spectrum I know how important it is to make sure that folks know more [...]
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
This issue Includes: Captain’s Chair – Looking Back at the Year Ahead – Zach Ricks Guardian of Xarg – Lance Schonberg Lumberjill – Daniel Ausema Sean and Kitty in Love – Gary Cuba Please Spay Your Tribbles – Laura Nicole The Brisingamen – Hugh O’Donnell Flotsam – Rebecca Schwarz A View From the Poopdeck – [...]
Listen to Flying Island Press interview Keith Hughes and Scott Roche about the E-book Death Match! Guests: Zach Ricks Keith Hughes Scott Roche Mentioned: E-book Death Match!! Audio courtesy of the FreeSound Project: Radio Noise Morse Code
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
Oh FRAK, we got to interview Alan Dean Foster about his new e-book Predators I Have Known. We hope you enjoy listening half as much as we enjoyed talking to him. Link to the interview. Guest: Alan Dean Foster Mentioned: Open Road Media Kindle version of Spellsinger Box of Oxen
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 [...]
In episode four it’s time to tackle self publishing. Should you? What should you do about creating e-pub files? How about cover art? Can you ensure that your text is good enough? We even answered some of these questions! Guests: Zack Ricks JP Losier Timothy Ward David Sobkowiak and Laura Frechette of Scrivener’s Circle and [...]
In episode three we had a biiiig table. The topic of conversation ran form the increasing legitimacy of electronic publishing to how to end a short story and link it to a later novel. Guests: Zack Ricks Jeff Hite Timothy Ward Doc Coleman of the Nifty Tech Blog David Sobkowiak and Laura Frechette of Scrivener’s [...]
Blio, a new reader from Ray Kurtzweil, is something I had been looking forward to. It was released today, and unfortunately isn’t ready for prime time.