Category Archives: Business of Writing

Authors aren’t ronins, they’re masters

Mur Lafferty, one of the pioneers of podcast fiction, has posted on her blog about her decision to go indie and not seek another agent after the one she had decided they should no longer work together. She likens it … Continue reading

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Take the five percent challenge!

If you could get a professional opinion on the first five percent of your fiction piece for no charge other than filling out a questionnaire, would you dare to send it in? Do you have the confidence in your writing … Continue reading

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Is 99 cents clear cutting your ebook sales?

Switch11 over at Kindle Review has an interesting article up about why you don’t have to be Amanda Hocking or John Locke to be a successful indie author. He lays out three levels of success, with the bottom being “solid … Continue reading

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The power of impulse pricing

I had a really interesting conversation this morning on the Twitter machine with Lilith Saintcrow, an urban fantasy novelist I’ve liked for a few years now. Lili was linking to another post on Nathan Bransford’s site, this one explaining why, … Continue reading

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Call me indie

We are living in a renaissance of creativity. A lot of people don’t appreciate it. But I think it’s fitting in the wake of what’s going on in North Africa and the Middle East that we think about the effect … Continue reading

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