A couple of weeks ago an editor asked on Twitter what people wanted to find when they visited publishers’ websites. You can guess what I said: my books, in prime position. But that was no help to the editor concerned who has more to consider than my ego, like attracting new customers, selling more books,…
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How I Got Published: Nik Perring
We all know Nik Perring. He’s a good friend and an even better writer, and I’m thrilled to be able to hand my blog over to him for today. First off, I’ll apologise in advance if this is either boring or unhelpful or both. But my route to publication was, compared with the routes of…
Mainstream Publishing Is Not Scared of Self-Publishing
(Not even when it jumps out from behind the literary sofa and shouts BOO!) A couple of weeks ago on the social whirl that is Twitter, someone suggested to me that the reason that commercial publishers are so dismissive of self- and vanity-publishers is that they are either scared of them, or in denial over…
They Had It Coming Indeed: Part V
This is the last in a short series of posts in which I analyse an article written by David Rozansky, publisher of Flying Pen Press, regarding literary agent Andrew Wylie’s decision to set up his own publishing house in order to publish some of his clients’ works exclusively in Amazon’s Kindle format. You can read…
Mainstream, Vanity And Self-Publishing: What Are The Differences?
There are three different ways writers can get published: but I’d only recommend two of them. Guess which ones. Mainstream or commercial publishing, which pays advances and royalties, relies on editorial selection to find the best or most appropriate books for the market, and puts a considerable amount of professional expertise into producing the best…
They Had It Coming Indeed: Part II
This blog post is the second in a series in which I analyse an article written by David Rozansky, publisher of Flying Pen Press, regarding the recent decision by literary agent Andrew Wylie to set up his own publishing house and license e-book rights to some of his clients’ works exclusively to Amazon. You can…
Publishing: Broken Or Not?
Is publishing broken? It depends on your point of view. Publishing funds itself by selling books to readers. Everything it does is designed to maximise those sales because, like supermarkets and bakers and butchers and car manufacturers and shoe-makers and furniture makers and hat-makers, publishing is a business. It has to make lots of sales…