eBook and Twitter classes for beginners!
Let’s make 2012 the year of the rich connection. In February, I’m teaching two eBook Publishing classes and two Twitter classes to get you started. The beginning classes are fun and informative, and will give you a foothold on these tools. In the intermediate sessions we’ll take it to the next level, keeping it brain-friendly [...]
Bridge over the river Kindle
Authors publishing on Kindle are growing ever more savvy about how and when to build their readership. (This is a major element of the massive transition from old publishing models to an indie-dominant new world for authors). How do we bring readers across the bridge? On #epubchat, the Friday 3 pm PST chat on Twitter, [...]
KDP Select, Authors and Giants
Within a few hours of receiving the email from Amazon about KDP Select, I had a dozen more emails from clients and associates. Not the first time we’re startled by the stark light coming from O Most Powerful Amazon. So off we march into two general camps. Camp 1. Amazon-Centric Authors You’ll find me here. [...]
Episodic Micronovel, you say?
The episodic micronovel. What the heck is that? In a discussion on Twitter with #OTable folks, Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu and I came to prefer the term “micronovel” for short novels being prepared for digital readers. I write to a Kindle audience and secondarily to all the other e-readers. After publishing a few non-fiction ebooks, I’m [...]
A Royalty of One’s Own
Writers may now begin to inform the publishing industry. Do we want to do that? Writers who have stabilized their income through digital publishing can start telling publishers and the pool of professionals contained in that industry how to work with writers. We can ask for what we want. As part of that new conversation, [...]
ePub Takes Another Leap
Kindle announced amazon.fr this week. Huzzah!! Go read about it on Amazon. Get your ebooks ready, Kindle is selling! Follow #epubchat on Twitter. Use Tweetchat.com to make it easier.
Take a rest in your imagination
Escaping the editor Today on the Twitter chat called #writechat, we were talking about different tools that spur our writing along. I referred to the “wild mind” technique given to us by author Natalie Goldberg in her book by the same name. I’ve used this tool for 20 years and it always does something good [...]
Epubchat is ready for your new books
Snug right up to your readers — they want to know about your books. #EPubChat on Twitter is every Friday now, so that’s twice as many days you can come announce your new books and give us links we can share. Like everything ePub Clubs are about, we are using these tools to collaborate and [...]
Tracking the Familiar
Characters: Global Brain Human Brain Google+ #OTable The global brain is our playground, fueling a growing structure of community and commerce. This article asks the question: “Have we overshot the limits of social expansion?” The subquestion might be: “What does it mean that we seek the familiar in our online interactions?” Global brain In the [...]
Amazon keeps Kindle burning bright
Thank goodness for our many reporters of Amazon news. I rely a lot on Steven Lewis, who is @Rule17 on Twitter and the creator of several excellent tools for writer/publishers using Kindle. His blog, Taleist, covered the most recent Amazon developments so I don’t need to do that here. The gist of these latest shiny [...]