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April 2010

Unleash Your Creativity Now: How to Freewrite

April 20, 2010 31 comments

I started writing as a freshman at SUNY Buffalo quite a while ago. The coolest kids I knew were in English, and the coolest of them all seemed to be writers. That’s where I wanted to be. But once I went to work I wrote only insitutional copy for many years. Instructional manuals, sales letters, [...]

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What Does Self-Publishing Cost: DIY

April 19, 2010 41 comments

In my earlier article I looked at a framework to determine what it costs to self-publish. I described 9 cost categories and three paths to publication as a way to organize the costs for different kinds of self-publishers. After all, not everyone wants the same kind of book, nor do people publish for all the [...]

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This Week in the Blogs: April 11 – 17, 2010

April 18, 2010 5 comments

Spring is in the air, along with tons of volcanic ash, so it might be a good weekend to stay home and read some blogs. In between your other activities, of course. Today we’ve got book marketing advice, an appraisal of the iPad vs the Kindle, a new book marketing tool, advice from a librarian, [...]

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The Design Process: Choice

April 17, 2010 0 comments

Years ago I set up my first company in a double-wide trailer beside some oaks and manzanita in an out-of-the-way spot on the far side of the Central Valley. With the help of my talented friend Michael, I started doing graphic design jobs for people in the Sacramento area, the closest city. I called it [...]

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Book Publishing Numbers That Tell A Story

April 16, 2010 7 comments

This was the headline in a news report by Jim Milliot in Publishers Weekly yesterday: Self-Published Titles Topped 764,000 in 2009 as Traditional Output Dipped Here’s the intro to the story: A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker. The number [...]

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