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Circumventing the Gatekeepers: PW Select Talks to Josiah Bancroft
I decided to self-publish Senlin Ascends before I started drafting the novel. I’d spent the previous 10 years sending out queries and mailing blind submissions, and I was just tired of spending most of my time dealing with the gatekeepers. The decision was really liberating because I didn’t have to worry about negotiating with editors, or appealing to trends, or wooing agents. I could just sit down and write the story I wanted to write.
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Why All Self-Publishers Need a Good Editor
In Betty Kelly Sargent's 30 years as an editor in the traditional book publishing world, she's seen skilled editors transform hundreds of manuscripts from ordinary to extraordinary.
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DIY: How to Understand Self-Publishing Acronyms
One of the first challenges of self-publishing is learning the jargon. Authors who manage marketing, distribution, and printing will find that there are far more concepts — and acronyms — they must learn about than if they were working with a traditional publisher.
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Keeping the Faith and Opening Doors: The Story of WestBow Press
Successful self-publishing might be fairly new, but one company can trace its roots back more than 200 years.
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PW Select October 2013: All Our Coverage
A guide to what's new in self-publishing, with full reviews of 27 self-published books, listings for 177 new titles, and more.
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PW Select October 2013: Reviews
Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's self-published titles from this round of PW Select submissions.
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Mystery Title Takes #1 on Smashwords
Romance books again claimed more spots than any other genre on the August list of the top-selling titles published via the Smashwords platform—which are distributed to Amazon, the Apple iBooks store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, and Diesel.
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PW Select October 2013: Colliding with Readers - Gail McHugh
It might seem like pitting readers against a main character could hurt an indie author’s book sales.
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PW Select October 2013: Listings from Self-Publishers
A historical novel by Charles Van Doren and one of a series on harvesting rainwater for sustainable living; fiction about a novelist who becomes a bestseller with a fake self-help book; and a memoir about searching for lost treasure in a boat that sank in 1909 are among the titles booksellers, publishers, and agents are encouraged to take a look at in the following listings of self-published books.
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PW Select October 2013: Jim Carrey Rolls Out His First Children’s Book
Jim Carrey may be best known as a movie star and comedian, but to him, his most meaningful roles are that of father to Jane and grandfather to her son, Jackson.
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PW Select October 2013: Seeing Is Believing
Here are a few eye-opening facts for anyone who has ever wanted to self-publish or who has actually jumped into the ring and self-published a book or two. Did you know that:
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Shifting Sands
Brittany Geragotelis had every mark of the aspiring author: a will to write, six unpublished novels, and nine years’ worth of rejection letters.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestseller List, August, 2013
JD Nixon's Heller series dominated the list of top-selling titles published on the Smashwords platform in August, with Heller's Decision landing in the #1 spot and three other books in the series making the top 25.
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Top Writing Tips for Self-Published Authors
Whether you are a seasoned self-publisher or a first-time indie author, and whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, chances are you agree with Ernest Hemingway, who said, "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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Writers & Artists Launch Self-Publishing Comparison Service
The new service will allow indie authors to filter through a list of providers offering services relevant to their writing project.
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Colliding with Readers
McHugh sold almost a half a million copies of her debut self-published romance, Collide, and has seen the recent follow-up, Pulse, top the list of Amazon bestsellers.
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The World Had Completely Changed: PW Interviews Kevin Bohacz
Kevin Bohacz’s Immortality received a starred review from PW Select. We caught up with Bohacz recently to chat over e-mail about self-publishing and Immortality’s success.
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DIY: How to Self-Publish an E-book
With so many e-book platforms—old, new, and updated—to choose from, which is the right fit for you? Here's a roundup of the major e-book platforms that are available, and what they have to offer self-publishers.
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Charisma House Launches Christian Print on Demand Service
The service offers authors free typesetting, custom cover design, and preparation for electronic publication in formats for Kindle, Nook, iBook, and Kobo.
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Kobo Writing Life: A Year Later
Since the launch of the Kobo Writing Life (KWL) self-publishing platform in the summer of 2012, the service has grown quickly and now generates about 10% of Kobo’s unit sales.
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