I felt this article was really interesting because it talks about how one writer gets through the plateaus. “Salesmen chase five times the number of leads to bring in the one real sale so it’s all the same. The difference is: writers are selling pieces of themselves. These are our ideas we’re pitching and we’re […]
Tag: self-publishing
[My Guest Post] Difference Between Marketing and Selling Your Books
This month at the How To Write Shop, I talk about the difference between marketing and selling your books. I got the idea for this post after my discussions at WisCon, because a lot of authors are starting to take on more of a retailer role than a marketing one. Internet retail is a whole […]
Need a Little Help from You (My Readers)
Hi, So after being poked and prodded I’m finding I need to come up with a banner ad to promote The Queen of Crows. I feel I’m a little limited because I don’t have Photoshop and I don’t have the patience to learn GIMP. Instead, I use Paint.net. With various plug-ins and whatnot, there’s a […]
The Queen of Crows: a One-Year Retrospective
It’s been a little over a year since I announced the The Queen of Crows debut, so I thought it’d be a good time to take a look back and share with you some of the highlights and low points from releasing it.
The full color edition was first published on DriveThruHorror.com in early March 2010. Released as an e-book, we designed it in a PDF format because that allowed us the flexibility to provide a full color illustration from Leanne Buckley, period artwork, and a magazine-style layout. We did not release a low-res version for the Kindle or the Nook, in part because we had to reformat the entire piece and strip out all the images.
The Price of Innovation
I went back and forth about pursuing the black-and-white, low-res edition, but at the time it felt like an afterthought, so I waited until this Fall to put it out.
Be sure to click through to read the rest of The Queen of Crows: a One-Year Retrospective to find more insight, links to reviews and interviews, and a whole lot more.
Writers: This is Not the Pyramid Scheme You’re Hoping For
I’m a writer. Always have been. Always will be. I’m also a writer who wants to work on a project that will hopefully attract new readers and get paid. Sometimes that works out. Sometimes that doesn’t. Like everyone else, I too dream of “making it big.” But what does that mean, anyway? Let’s say the […]