by Joel Friedlander | Aug 20, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Author Henning Mankell, writing in the New York Times last year related how he came to live much of the time in Mozambique. Listening to old men sitting on a bench talk, he speculates: It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 19, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
We’re still deep into vacation time, “gone fishing” signs are out, and a lot of people desperately want to cool off. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot going on in the indie publishing scene, and this week there are reports of mob...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 17, 2012 | Guest Posts
by Michele DeFilippo (@1106design) I met Michele online a couple of years ago. She and I share a commitment to educating authors for the challenges of self-publishing great books. As anyone who visits the site of her book design firm 1106Design knows, she is a very...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 15, 2012 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Self-Publishing
If you’ve looked at a lot of self-published books, you already know that authors sometimes go to press before they have really absorbed all the conventions of book making and the advice of publishing professionals. In fact it surprises authors—who...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 13, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Marketing, Self-Publishing
It seems that authors fall into two categories when it comes to author blogging: Authors who are blogging regularly Authors who think they should be blogging regularly If you read blogs you come to the conclusion that there are lots of reasons authors are blogging....
