From Rick: I’ve been incredibly remiss lately in posting to the blog. It’s been five weeks since the last post. I’ve been focusing on what a writer should focus on: his own writing, and I have several projects ongoing. It’s
Read moreFrom Rick: This week’s post will be a short one from my perspective, but it will provide you with some good reading material and hopefully some good insights. We’re over ten years into indie publishing, and it’s safe to say
Read moreFrom Rick: I had a different post planned for this week, but in the middle of the week, Kris Rusch grabbed me with an excellent her post on her blog. I know I mention her a lot on this blog,
Read moreFrom Rick: This week I’m going to post something different from what I had planned in order to bring your attention to an article that is highly significant for all indie authors out there. It talks about some potentially serious
Read moreFrom Rick: The publishing world has changed over the past few years, mostly in our favor. With the current coronavirus pandemic upon us, the world has changed in unexpected ways. I hope that all of my readers and their families
Read moreFrom Rick: In Part One (link below for your convenience), I talked about some of the wrong thinking indie authors made in the beginning of the new wave of self-publishing that some have called the “self-publishing revolution.” INDIE PUBLISHING: ARE
Read moreFrom Rick: In late 2007, with the advent of Kindle Direct Publishing, the self-publishing landscape forever changed. Many authors embraced this new publishing world and grew with it as it has changed over the years since. Some have been slow
Read moreFrom Rick: Welcome to 2019. This promises to be an interesting and hopefully productive year for me, and I trust it will be for all of you as well. Why will 2019 be an interesting year? Well, for one thing
Read moreFrom Rick: Lately, I’ve been doing occasional posts on what may sound like the seven deadly sins for writers. I did one called “Greed” (July 31, 2018) in which I talked about what can happen when writers get greedy, are
Read more(1) Bookstores, and Barnes & Noble in particular. In case you haven’t heard the news about B&N being up for sale, here’s Kris Rusch’s take on it and on bookstores in general and how they have applied to authors. Once
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