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"The world's first independent global survey of 2000+ authors has found that self-publishing authors earn more than writers with publishers"
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I was wrong. There is a magical quality required to be a writer: courage. To create, in the face of derision and ridicule, and sometimes even hate. Salman Rushdie continued to create where many of us would falter; was defiant, in the face of barbarism.
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Crowd-funding to help preserve Ukraine's film archives, with a collection going back to the 1920s: gofundme.com/f/vufku-100-hel…
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Now a top 50 best selling Literary Graphic Novel on the Amazon charts, what day! @WhiteFacedLies mybook.to/whitefacedlies #china
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Ha! When you discover an ironic and jaded line of movie dialogue you wrote 20 odd years ago is now being used in a list of inspirational quotes: free-to-live.com/keep-your-h…
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Reviews matter because word-of-mouth matters, especially for little-known authors, like me. But sometimes reviews matter because they let you know your words really meant something to someone you’ve never met.
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Always curious to see how a film travels then has a life of its own. @kingofpeking included on Brazil's @revistabula list of "10 New Movies on Netflix to Forget Your Troubles and Warm Your Heart in 2021”: revistabula.com/40646-10-fil…
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The Book Designer Blog Has Been Sold
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Wow, Joel's site has been going since I got started ten years ago. I used to submit blog posts to the Carnival of the Indies.
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New! —> The 2021-2022 Key Book Publishing Paths chart. To be honest, little has changed since last year, but people like reassurance it’s up to date. It is. Soon, I expect to change “Big Five” to “Big Four” if PRH’s acquisition of S&S is approved. janefriedman.com/key-book-pu…
ALT 2021-2022 Key Book Publishing Paths
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Amazon Publishing in Talks to Offer E-books to Public Libraries
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More than Two Million Backers Have Pledged $200 Million to Publishing Projects
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Have you ever backed people on Kickstarter?
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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers needs $2300 in the next 24 hours! Home stretch! Come on, let’s make this #Latinx anthology happen! #RepresentationMatters kickstarter.com/projects/for…
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"Everyone Wants Barnes & Noble to Survive. Can It?"
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Okay, but how can I do this with ebooks online... 🤔
How to Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper
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“We live in a binge consumption culture and the best-loved stories are often those that allow a deeper experience of character and world” buff.ly/3jj1vXX Writing a series w/ @GoblinWriter
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"But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different." 2013 talk by Neil Gaiman, very much worth a read: theguardian.com/books/2013/o…