LB Gschwandtner

[...] is well known. He’s been published for years. Read his blog. If you’re new to Indie pubbing, go back to his blogs in 2009 & 2010 to see how the early adopters started to figure out [...]

[...] by Terri Giuliano makes the case that a) self publishing (referred to by us Indie authors as Indie Pubbing) is growing fast, b) some authors published by traditional houses resent this, c) sales for [...]

[...] that just slipped out of my Mastering The Art of French Cooking and into my cholesterol busting Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible. In her food bible, Paula Deen has some great grits recipes by [...]

[...] year (or maybe late last year) I bought and read The Faith of a Writer Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates. The passage pasted below made so much sense to me that I rewrote it and pasted it on my [...]

[...] and Smashwords and Goodreads and all the other ways you can sell books online, stats are your sales figures and your book rankings and your starred reviews (these last are the most troublesome as the [...]

[...] recent stats say they read more/buy more books. 9. The author gets immediate feedback on sales figures and can have an impact on sales through promotions of all kinds. 10. Publishers keep [...]

[...] with others who won’t be there. It’s a list of the reasons I had for becoming an Indie author. And then a list of the reasons I came up with against becoming an Indie author. Hint: that [...]

[...] It’s been eighteen months since I began my great experiment @ Amazon as an Indie author. In fact, my debut month coincided with the receipt of my first social security check. Both [...]

[...] about being black-balled, dared not self-publish. As a result, talented authors like John Kennedy Toole, whose posthumously published masterpiece, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” won a [...]

[...] , Almighty Me, which became the movie Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrey. Yep, that’s Bob Bausch. Bob has seen the writing and publishing world go through many changes. He’s won [...]

[...] ; Annie Dillard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Simon, Stephen King, Daphne DuMaurier, Pearl Buck, Bob Bausch, and many others. I’ve learned from all of these essays, and come to appreciate [...]

[...] quite respectable. Some who began as Indies signed with agents and got book contracts with traditional houses and there are the rare few who sold in the millions (of books or dollars take your pick) [...]

[...] to by us Indie authors as Indie Pubbing) is growing fast, b) some authors published by traditional houses resent this, c) sales for ebooks are climbing, d) sales of paperback books are declining, [...]

[...] , message board where you can find an answer to just about anything related to Kindle and/or Indie pubbing, writing in general, how Amazon works, and anything you might want to ask. You [...]