After the full blog post last week... you may
be thinking what more can there be?
Last year the talk of Digital Book World week was Hugh Howey with
his ground breaking Print Only contract. Hugh wasn’t on the panels last week
but he was still making waves with this incredible post speculating what he would do in the first month if he was the new CEO of a ‘New’ Harper Collins.
This list of 13 points was talked about, applauded and then analysed by Porter Anderson who included Hugh’s agent Kristin Nelson’s PS about
what she would add to the new look publishing company.
Every point makes you sit up and go yeah!
Hugh then followed
it up with what he would do in the second month. Nailed It!
Anybody thinking of starting a publishing company… here is
your blueprint. Brilliant stuff.
Recently the publishing bogosphere was talking price points
and how you set prices on your books... Kris Rusch has been writing a series of
articles on the business of writing and she is one savvy lady. Take a look at her latest post, pricing and discoverability, it is a comprehensive master
class in pricing books... ebook, print, series... If you add this info with
Hugh’s that is your brain expander for the month.
Joel Friedlander always has useful tips and here is the blogpost that explains how you pull neat quotes out of your book and make them jpeg graphics...sweet!
Rachel Gardner has a blog post on what you should do if you think your work has been pirated.
In the Craft Section,
Elisabeth S Craig's post on reason's why you kill your characters… has been shared around the blogosphere this week. You may selling your character short when you send them down the river.
Jody Hedlund has 5 top ways to rivet your reader.... and she
uses children’s books as the example.
In the Marketing Section,
Ava Jae has the blog post explaining why you can’t chooseany old 50 pages to send to an agent.
Writer Beware has warnings about Agent Artery, a dodgy
outfit who will send your MS to agents on your behalf. It is a shocker! To
start with they address your prospective agent as ‘Human’... not even Dear
Human....
For those of you who like infographics Media Bistro has a funny one about publishing your book... This could be a good one to share
around to all your author friends.
To Finish,
Anne R Allen has an interesting blog post on whether your writing is your hobby or your profession... or both. This is a nice post
helping you make sense of your creative compulsive drive.
I’ve been painting and scraping in my old cottage today so am
crawling off to bed to dream of a bright new publishing world... or probably
neverending paint stripping... Think of your own picture for this weeks
roundup…hehehe.
maureen
