OK, so literary agents are having a hard time these days. Ebooks are cutting out the middle man, so the story goes. As I see it, opportunities have never been greater.
The Internet is flooded with ebooks. But it is hard to sort through the dreck to find something worth reading. I am not yet aware if the successful business model has emerged that will assist the reader to separate the sheep from the goats. That is something we want to explore at "Get Your Novel Published."
We have a few ideas in the embryonic stage. Look to these pages for updates. This is an exciting time to be a publisher or an agent or a writer.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Amanda Hocking: Our Heroine
Amanda Hocking has opened the ebook flodgates. She is an inspiration for all writers, especially ebook authors. From Wikipedia:
Hocking lives in Austin, Minnesota. Employed as an assisted living worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her spare time.[3] In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books.[1] By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, something previously unheard of for self-published authors.[4] In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.[2]
Her blog
http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
Hocking lives in Austin, Minnesota. Employed as an assisted living worker until 2010, she wrote 17 novels in her spare time.[3] In April 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books.[1] By March 2011, she had sold over a million copies of nine books and earned two million dollars from sales, something previously unheard of for self-published authors.[4] In early 2011, Hocking averaged 9,000 book sales each day.[2]
Her blog
http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Our Hero: John Locke (The More Recent One)
John Locke has now sold over one million ebooks on Kindle
Note: DO READ THE COMMENTS THAT REFUTE THE ARTICLE'S FIGUREShttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/06/independent-author-john-locke-amazon-million-kindle-seller-cost.html
A John Locke interview:
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/guest-post-by-john-locke.html
Finally, we link directly to John Locke's blog
http://lethalbooks.com/
Let the Age of Enlightenment begin anew!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
A New Approach (Updated 11/13/11)
I EFFECTIVELY REWROTE THE NOVEL AS I RECORDED THE AUDIO VERSION. I THEN UNPOSTED THE OLD KINDLE VERSION AND POSTED THE NEW IMPROVED VERSION TO AMAZON.
It took me a couple of days but I converted my book to ebook format, devised a virtual dust jacket and I now have my first ever, Kindle-ready ebook.
Lots of glitches of course. Copyright being one of them. But that had a happy ending. The virtual dust jacket took longer than expected. I used to be good at computer graphics but I have not done it in a while and my skills were rusty. Also, using Open Office is slightly different than Word or Publisher or Quark. Similar, but different.
No more queries to editors or agents or publishers. I did not go the ebook route before because I thought the e-reader just would not catch on. I was delightfully wrong. Ebook here I come!
It took me a couple of days but I converted my book to ebook format, devised a virtual dust jacket and I now have my first ever, Kindle-ready ebook.
Lots of glitches of course. Copyright being one of them. But that had a happy ending. The virtual dust jacket took longer than expected. I used to be good at computer graphics but I have not done it in a while and my skills were rusty. Also, using Open Office is slightly different than Word or Publisher or Quark. Similar, but different.
No more queries to editors or agents or publishers. I did not go the ebook route before because I thought the e-reader just would not catch on. I was delightfully wrong. Ebook here I come!
Wish me well.
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