Being a micro-publisher has its own caveats and hurdles, one of them being the ability to integrate your titles and business into the distribution stream, which is far more complex than one would expect. I’m not sure I fully understand the system as yet. Here’s what I’ve discovered so far. You need to get your titles listed with Ingram in order for your book data to be picked up by most online book retailers, and…
The following came to my attention on the SF-Canada list, and is of such import I felt compelled to post this to the blog with the hope other writers and writers’ organizations will add their voices in protest of this erosion of our rights. It’s hard enough to eek out an existence as a writer, without publishers and media clawing back our earning potential, little say our claim to work we’ve produced. Dear members of…
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I’ve posted the Afterword from Shadow Song here for you to give you some idea of the background and research that went into the novel. Author: Lorina Stephens Format: Trade PaperbackPublished: August 1, 2008Dimensions: 216 Pages, 6 x 9 Publisher: Five Rivers ChapmanryISBN: 9780973927818 Print: $18.95US & direct from publisher, $27.50CDN eBook: $9.95US Available through online booksellers worldwide and direct from Five Rivers. The research that went into the writing of this book spanned several…
Pale HorsemanBernard Cornwell Trade Paperback Harpercollins Uk ISBN: 9780007210466 Format:Trade PaperbackPublished:October 13, 2005Dimensions:400 Pages, 6 x 9.2 in$24.95 Not Up to Cornwell’s Usual Standard The prose in The Pale Horseman is hurried, rambling, with historical inaccuracies and cardboard characters, all of it in need of an editor. Agreed there is little historical record of England’s Alfred the Great; however, it is known he overcame a Danish invasion against staggering odds, unifying the squabbling tribes of…