India is waking up to the realm of digital publishing and digital books with both being the focus of the ongoing Delhi Book Expo this year. E-books and e-publishing both has their obvious advantages though authors in India have only just begun to realize the immense benefits digital technology can be of in this field. Also, with the country being the third biggest publisher -- … [Read more...] about Delhi Book Expo: E-Books and E-Publishing Get The Big Push
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Marketing Your Writing Through Your Writing
 All writers who have taken on the incredible responsibility for getting their work in front of the public, whether through self-publishing or strictly digital publishing, must know the importance of marketing oneself and maintaining an online presence. Without this valuable step, publishing one’s own work is akin to scribbling it on the wall of a very dark cave. But … [Read more...] about Marketing Your Writing Through Your Writing
The Middle Ground Between Traditional and Self-Publishing
As more and more authors discover that they can cut out the middle man through many of the self-publishing services cropping up, a whole new breed of small-scale publisher is emerging, both in the U.S. and in Europe. Open Books is reaching out to authors who are not interested in clawing their way to the top of the slush pile. While still following the same model as larger … [Read more...] about The Middle Ground Between Traditional and Self-Publishing
Indie Writers Struggle to Balance Work and Life
For YA steampunk writer Alison DeLuca, author of the The Nightwatchman Express (available from Amazon and soon-to-be in print from Fantasy Island Book Publishing), coming up with a story to tell was nothing new. Her childhood summers spent on a television-less Dublin farm with plenty of siblings and cousins on hand meant some story or another being created and enacted at all … [Read more...] about Indie Writers Struggle to Balance Work and Life
The Light at the End of a Very Long Tunnel with Dwight Okita
When poet and playwright Dwight Okita decided to try his creative hand at novel writing after traditionally publishing a collection of poetry and several of his plays, he realized the writing style wouldn’t be the only thing that would be different about this work. “Self-publishing used to be a last resort for writers, but more and more authors are finding it to be a … [Read more...] about The Light at the End of a Very Long Tunnel with Dwight Okita
Smashwords Mission is to Reach All Authors
There are undoubtedly a large number of companies available to authors who wish to self-publish or digitally publish their works, each offering its own unique features for writers. Smashwords founder Mark Coker, who co-wrote a novel Boob Tube, with his wife, was fortunate enough to find a literary agent from a very well-known New York agency, but after two years of … [Read more...] about Smashwords Mission is to Reach All Authors
Authors Use e-Publishing to Reach a Wider Audience
Gordon Bonnet is a science teacher by day, novelist by night. He quickly learned that writing the book might have been the easy part, because the process of finding an agent, working with editors, and meeting publishers’ deadlines is a full time job in and of itself. Self-publishing seemed like the obvious answer, but he soon discovered that it can be extremely difficult to … [Read more...] about Authors Use e-Publishing to Reach a Wider Audience
Publishers Benefit from Reaching Out to the Online Writing Community
Only two years ago, a veritable lifetime in the world of computers and technology, Penguin was reported by Reuters as being the first publisher to sign a deal allowing access to English-language e-books in China. In the first quarter data for 2009, Penguin’s e-book sales were up seven times over that same period from the year before. Fast forward to first quarter earnings for … [Read more...] about Publishers Benefit from Reaching Out to the Online Writing Community