Publishing – Page 16 – Jacke Wilson

September 28, 2013

The Author Who Lived Dangerously: A New Model for Publishing

This is a true story: So the author writes a 30,000-word story and finds himself in literary limbo. Even though he’s achieved some success with his previous books, magazines aren’t willing to publish a story this long. They only have so many pages, after all, and adding extra paper will be expensive to print and ship.… Continue reading

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September 27, 2013

Streaming Television and Digital Publishing

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, has an interesting perspective on television viewers and their desire to have control over what they watch. He starts with a historical analogy: “Two hundred years ago, a lot of fiction was written for magazines. It was a serialized format for novels. And then book manufacturing got cheap enough where you… Continue reading

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September 26, 2013

Rise of the Novella?

Some interesting speculation that digital publishing, with its lower overhead costs, will lead to the rise of the novella. And why not? Readers like reading them, authors like writing them, but most importantly: sometimes that’s how long a story should be. It’s the difference between Monty Python ending a scene abruptly vs. SNL stretching one out… Continue reading

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September 25, 2013

Grandma’s Memoirs: A Self-Publishing Thought Experiment

When my grandmother was approaching 90, she decided it was time for her to write her memoirs. Why not? She had lived a full life, spanning nearly the entire twentieth century, from her girlhood in Europe during World War I, through immigration to the United States, all the way to the the end of the… Continue reading

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September 24, 2013

A Good Sign You’re a Candidate for Self-Publishing

…is when you submit your manuscript to agents and find yourself hoping they will reject it, because their acceptance will interfere with the plans you have for running your own shop. Continue reading

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September 23, 2013

Welcome, Beta Readers!

Thanks to everyone who has served as a beta reader, or to those of you who have signed up for more. As always, I hope the process will not be too painful. (Side note: at the first deposition I ever took, the first thing out of my mouth was a reassurance to the witness that… Continue reading

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September 22, 2013

The Mindset of Independent Publishing

Another great post from Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who writes: After thirty years of living like this, it’s really hard to understand that the first three weeks of an indie-published book mean nothing more than three weeks five years after the book’s initial publication. Every week is the same. I still struggle with that mindset. It’s… Continue reading

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September 17, 2013

Mr. Franzen’s Folly

How does someone so seemingly intelligent get things so wrong all the time? Here’s Franzen’s latest: “In my own little corner of the world, which is to say American fiction, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen. Amazon wants a world in which books are… Continue reading

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