by Joel Friedlander | Apr 23, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
As interest has continued to grow in self-publishing in the past few years, thousands of writers have jumped in to test the waters. Some have had a good experience and sold books, made friends and learned a lot of new things they never knew before about books and the...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 24, 2012 | Self-Publishing
by Marcia Degelman Marcia is one of the authors I’ve met at the monthly meetings of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Group. She impressed me with her persistence and how she kept making her book and her marketing better. I asked her to tell her story, and...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 18, 2012 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
by Lee Foster Today I welcome a friend from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA), travel book author Lee Foster, an energetic practitioner in the ongoing ebook publishing revolution around us. Lee is a veteran and award-winning travel journalist...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 1, 2011 | Editorial, Self-Publishing
by David Carr David Carr is an experienced book editor and friend from the San Francisco Bay Area here in California. We attend BAIPA meetings together sometimes and I have a lot of respect for his skills. I invited David to write an article that would show writers...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 7, 2011 | Self-Publishing
One location where self-publishing is blooming is at the Mechanics’ Institute Library in downtown San Francisco. During the year I was one of many speakers who brought information about new opportunities in publishing to the Self-Publishing Working Group that...