The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing
Tips, Resources, Real Numbers, and What's New in E-Publishing
Grin and share it. Goodreads users have the ability to share what they’re reading, rating, and adding on Goodreads with Facebook friends (and Twitter peeps, too) through an app. Interested in partaking? To arrange all this automated sharing, go to the Goodreads website, and click “edit profile” on the drop-down menu beneath your user image [...]
Before Amazon announced its plans to purchase Goodreads, I noticed the results of a survey on the Goodreads blog that examined what devices members use to read ebooks. Naturally, Goodreads members don’t just read ebooks on Kindles and other devices that are specifically e-readers. The blog points to a New York Times article (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/e-book-reader-tablets-cannibalized/) that [...]
I’ve blogged before about giving away books on Goodreads (http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/goodreads-giveaways-part-one). But I recently heard a couple different authors mention that they’ve been contacted by Goodreads members following a giveaway. The readers, even though they didn’t win the giveaway, are asking for a free book copy. About Goodreads giveaways: The site allows authors to give away [...]
One of my greatest struggles is getting the beginning of a book right. The first sentence and paragraph, that first chapter – I write, rewrite, tweak, revise, scrap, rewrite, revise, repeat…! Unsurprisingly, I’m not alone. In each of the two writing workshops I’ve attended this year, sessions on beginning literary works were held. At the [...]
teens/tweens. She’s successfully written for traditional NYpublishing houses, as well as topped the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists with her indie published works. Her books have been translated into several languages, sold in more than a dozen countries, and have been option for a cable television series. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is constantly fighting her addiction to Starbucks lattes. You can find her online at: www.gemmahalliday.com [Read More…]
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De-constructing Criticism is a Required Skill for Writers
How do you know what criticism to take versus what criticism to politely decline? I’m not talking reviews; I’m talking before-you-publish comments from early readers. You’ve got a manuscript finished. Before you publish it, you have someone – hopefully a few someones – read it and let you know what they think. You’re looking for [...]