Liz Strauss said it better than I ever could.
In summary, publishing is a business. Even if you self-publish, you’ve got to impress your editor and your publisher with a product that can sell. Do your editor and publisher have the skills to know what readers will buy?
The hard part is the marketing. If you aren’t [...]
The Internet has made self publishing a whole lot easier. In many respects that’s a good thing. Were it not for the ease of use of capable technology, financial accessibility of the platform, and the internal drive to pursue it, I would not be able to write and publish this blog. All poetry bloggers owe [...]
OK, indie book publishers. Real term? Well, you could call them self-publishers, but not all indie publishers are necessarily self publishers. Nevertheless, many of them are.
Jim Murdoch recently wrote a brilliant post on his blog about the stigma attached to self publishing. I feel his pain, but there is in some way a deserving stigma [...]
I’ve been busy as you can imagine today. Printing.
This Friday is the first Friday of the month and I’ll be the featured poet at a local monthly reading here in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I am fortunate (or unfortunate if you are counting on gas prices) of being situated, where I live, between Harrisburg, Gettysburg, York, Hanover, [...]