Your friend is a writer. You love your friend and you want to support their interests, but you don’t know what their specific plans are. After all, a gift subscription to Writer’s Market only works if they are planning to look for an agent and maybe your friend wants to self-publish. In the same vein, [...]
26May09
I would’ve prefered my book hadn’t been selected for listing on Amazon.com’s Marketplace, Lulu
In the musical The Producers, there is a very funny part when a choir of obnoxious sounding old ladies start to sing over-the-top back up to what Nathan Lane is singing and he turns to them in despair and pleas as only Nathan Lane can, “Don’t help me.”
That is exactly how I felt when [...]
10Mar09
Publishing on Amazon’s Kindle: Author Gregory Bernard Banks shares his insights & experience
As regular readers of The Whine Seller know, I like to write from personal experience. So, with publishing on Amazon’s Kindle getting a lot of attention lately, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to give this topic the attention it deserved since I have not yet published anything on the platform. Instead, I [...]
There is a lot to love in the new contest Lulu just announced. Instead of judging a contest based on content (which never fully allows for huge variety of POD books out there) this contest is based solely on how well your book sells.
The book that sells the most copies in March gets $1500! Second [...]
