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The gods favor us
When I first read the title of Will Gompertz’s entertaining piece on the BBC a couple of weeks ago (‘The “mummy porn” author and the suburban bookshop’), I thought to myself, ‘Mummy porn? I can imagine undead vampire sex but mummies…’ Then I of course realized that I was being an idiot and it was [...]
The sound of your own voice
It had never even occurred to me to have an audiobook version for one, or all, of my books, so when I stumbled across this I was quite surprised. In hindsight I guess I shouldn’t have been so taken aback; since all the other aspects of publication are now open to self-pubbers it only makes [...]
The Writing Game: Part 3
You’ve spent months, nay years, on your book, and you can’t polish it further for fear of going completely insane, yet now you’re unsure about which direction in which to head for publication. After reading part 1 and part 2, let’s assume that you believe your book has commercial potential (although for sure it’s not [...]
The Writing Game: Part 2
As I’m not a celebrity (except in my neighbourhood where all the shopkeepers know what cigarettes this big foreign freak smokes without him asking) and I am not at all interested in popular genre stories, I tend to look at the whole self-pub/trad-pub (© A Oberg) conundrum from the perspective of writers who aren’t necessarily [...]
The Writing Game: Part 1
Whether a project should be self-published or the writer should go the traditional route is one of the key questions all writers grapple with these days. Conventional wisdom decrees that if the project is one of the following (or a combination thereof) then you should probably self-publish: if it is ‘experimental/avant-garde’; if it is aimed at [...]
A publisher’s digital cold-call
Although it used to be unheard-of for a publisher to approach a writer, the chances of that happening are now better than ever. A great many writers are forgoing the traditional route and making their works available either through self-publishing or free ebook distribution services like SmashWords or Kindle Direct Publishing. With profits dwindling rapidly [...]
Route 66
Take a quick look online about self publishing, and you’ll find people splitting hairs over definitions like: vanity press; POD; small press; subsidy; independent press; e-publishing. Now all that to me is just so much warbling. First time writers live in a world where they make one of three main choices: query an agent — [...]
Pushed into it or a chosen route?
Many people end up self-publishing due to a lack of opportunities to follow the traditional route, while others embrace it as a way of avoiding the traditional route. There is a growing trend among writers, musicians, and film-makers, however, to self-produce their work for purely democratic reasons. I’m undecided where I stand on the issue, [...]
Why self-publish?
I think this is one of the most important questions a modern author should ask themselves. To me, it all boils down to what your intentions are for your project, and what your long-term goals are as a writer. Many of the issues you will need to consider before answering this question are of a [...]
Revisiting getting reviewed