Links to recent items relevant to self-publishing. Lots of ideas here worth considering. <\/p>\n
Dialog between Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath<\/a> on their decision to self-publish.<\/p>\n Literary agent Ted Weinstein interviews<\/a> Eisler and Amanda Hocking on “Traditional vs. Self-publishing.<\/p>\n Dean Wesley Smith has a tremendous amount of information on his blog for both traditional and self-publishers. Here is a discussion he has<\/a> with Eisler and Konrath on paying for self-publishing help. I also appreciated his thoughts in this post<\/a> which explains why he believes self-publishing is no longer a bad idea.<\/p>\n And finally I read this set of posts, first by Roxane Gay at HTMLGiant responding to<\/a> the original discussion between Eisler and Konrath. She has been generally disappointed with the quality of writing in the self-published ebooks she’s sampled. But Henry Baum at Self-Publishing Review replies that “Bad Writing Doesn’t Matter Anymore”<\/a>, which is a view that certainly challenges mainstream thinking on the subject of ebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Links to recent items relevant to self-publishing. Lots of ideas here worth considering. Dialog between Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath on their decision to self-publish. Literary agent Ted Weinstein interviews Eisler and Amanda Hocking on “Traditional vs. Self-publishing. Dean Wesley …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x1Kd-7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}