Author Shanna Swendson’s series was dropped by her US publisher, picked up by her Japanese publisher, and then finished in the States — being her own publisher, having been “hit upside the head with the clue stick” by her agent. Read More
Sir Hugh and the Snail
This champion of self-publishing is signing a new contract, a traditional deal, with Random House UK’s Century imprint for SAND as he did for the WOOL trilogy. Guess what: This is not about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing. Read More
Earning the Authors a Say
It’s the second AuthorEarnings.com report, with some 54,000 Amazon ebook titles — Hugh Howey’s new initiative to demonstrate parity in the potential earnings for self-publishing authors unveils its second set of calculations. Read More
Do Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings Add Up?
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Issues on the Ether: Do Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings Add Up? Do Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings Add Up? In Publishing Perspectives’ Issues on the Ehter, Porter Anderson preps an #EtherIssue live debate on Hugh Howey’s new AuthorEarnings.com initiative. Read the full post: PublishingPerspectives.com Google+ Join our Headliners at BEA’s uPublishU AUTHOR… Read More
The Literary Elitism Question
As Laura Miller at Salon opens her own reflection on this, “Is the Literary World Elitist?”, she rightly explains that Eleanor Catton—responding to an instance of reader indignation at writer’s use of a 50-cents word—”treats the reader’s ire as a symptom of the creeping consumerist attitude in our response to literature.” Read More
Writing on the Ether | JaneFriedman.com
Our initial sponsor is L.L. Barkat, author of Rumors of Water, as well as the managing editor behind Tweetspeak Poetry. Jane and I are grateful to Laura for offering her support of this weekly feature, which takes considerable time and effort to deliver. Thank you! Read More