It’s Awfully Grey in Here (An Update)

by | Jun 12, 2014 | The Book Biz

The Amazon/Hachette negotiations have reached critical mass, it seems. Lots of folks are talking about it now—which is good, in my opinion. Since (and even before) my Monday post about the Amazon /Hachette contract negotiation, I’ve had many interesting discussions...

Amazon vs. Hachette Is Really Amazon vs. You

by | Jun 9, 2014 | The Book Biz

A lot of my friends are in the book biz so we’ve been talking for a few weeks now about what’s going on between Amazon and Hachette (one of the Big Five publishers—think Little, Brown and Company; Hyperion Books; Grand Central Publishing, which is the former Warner...

Short Saturday: What About Self-Publishing?

by | Mar 22, 2014 | The Book Biz

I often read an article and think, Hmmm, that’s good; my peeps would like this. So I put it in my Short Saturday file to save for next week. Or the next week, or the next. Because I come across a lot of interesting, informative articles. Sometimes it’s a long time...

It’s Always Something*

by | Mar 6, 2014 | The Book Biz

I got an inquiry through my website a while back from a writer who said he’d self-published but it had “become apparent” he needed an editor. (The e-book had been available on Amazon for about two years.) The absolute first question that crossed my mind was, Why are...