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
Framing #FutureFoyles in London
From February 19, 2013 An excerpt from my series of Ether for Authors columns on publishing at Publishing Perspectives, appearing Tuesdays. Framing #FutureFoyles in London Here is one thing no one will deny about the events hashtagged #FutureFoyles in London: here was unabashed dedication, enthusiasm, love and hope — loud, rackety, even strident… Read More
What We Leave Behind
From February 5, 2013 An excerpt from my series of Ether for Authors columns on publishing at Publishing Perspectives, appearing Tuesdays. Table of Contents Tick-TOC: Optimism Ahead What We Leave Behind: ‘There Is No Midlist’ But More Optimism: An International Startup Showcase Tick-TOC: One Week To Go It would be enough to know simply that… Read More