Tag: SelfPublishing

James L. Wilber

James L. Wilber

Author of Matchmaker, My Babylon – Book Two, My Babylon – Book One, Of Little Faith, My Babylon – Book Five, My Babylon – Book Four, My Babylon – Book Three, Buffy, and Goblin Markets

Goodreads is a social network for people who love to read. It helps you keep track of what you’ve read, find new books to read, and connect you with other readers. 

Check out my profile. The great thing about Goodreads is, you can rate a book without writing a review. I wouldn’t mind if you rated all my books. (A review would help too). More than one website, including Kobo, gets all their reviews from Goodreads. It would help me out tremendously. 

Thank you so much for your kind words. It’s stuff like this that keeps me going.

I listen to a show called the Self-Publishing Podcast. One thing they pointed out recently is that publishing has always been about hard work and dedication, but before it was still a lottery. You could do all that work and still never get noticed by agents or publishers.

Now, your hard work can be directly proportionate to how successful you are. It’s still a bitch, but now at least you don’t have to rely on arbitrary gatekeepers that are only looking for the next bestseller.

NEED BETA READERS

So my current crop of beta readers have kind of crapped out on me. I need some more serious critique of my work before it’s ready to publish. If you’re interested, have a decent grasp of the English language, and have the time to read and critique 20,000 words every two weeks, please let me know. 

Throwing myself into self-publishing means I need my work to be the very best. I can’t afford professional editors at this point, and I know I’m no where near perfect. 

If you’re interested, please drop your email in my ask box. I would appreciate it more than I can say here.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. – F.S. Fitzgerald

In honor of NaNoWriMo, I started a new novel. I am seriously considering self-publishing electronically. The stigma is fading, and the publishing industry is changing the way the music industry did. Like it or not, itunes sells 64% of the music. They say by the end of 2012, Amazon will sell 50% of all books. I don’t like it, but I accept it as the current reality (which we all should work on changing). Ebooks account for 31% of all books sold and that number is growing exponentially. 

Amazon is a corporation that exists to make money and is therefore destructive by nature. But there are positive side-effects of their current business plan. They don’t give a shit about publishers and agents. They would much rather get material straight from the author and share a bigger percentage with them.

The biggest bonus though, is that it frees me from worrying about the artificial constraints put in place by publishers – genre books should be 90,000 words, fantasy should not have profanity, you can’t mix sex with serious plots and characters, etc….

The downside, I have to pimp myself and my wares. Alas, dear tumblr follower, I intend to do that here. Don’t unfollow yet. My current book centers on matters esoteric in nature. 

I used to run a separate blog for writing, and will probably go back to that, but for now I’ll use this blog, and expand the themes to magick, change, and writing. I do this in hopes just a few of my current 281 followers might enjoy and spread the word. Would you read a book about a magician that actually used some real world magick theory?