Author Earnings - A Report by Hugh Howey

I know that many of you have seen this report on other forums, but I felt that it was important enough to reblog it here. Hugh Howey's Author Earnings Report has rattled the publishing industry. Posted on his new site, Author Earnings, his report breaks down the self publishing and traditional publishing industry by the numbers. 

Sure, it might have a few flaws, but with the inability to extract exact numbers, this is as close as one could get. I'll be looking for more as they continue to expand the sample size.

Please visit his blog to see the full report ...  http://authorearnings.com/the-report/

Seven Things to Avoid When Self-Publishing

This post received a lot of eyeballs over on Indies Unlimited earlier this week, I thought I would share it in this space as well. Having just published my Christmas novel, So This is Christmas, I’d like to write about some of the things you shouldn’t do when publishing your book. 

Vancouver Workshop Leads Writers Down the Wrong Path

This needs to be read, especially by our friends in the Great White North. The BC Federation of Writers needs to get their act together or they will be losing a lot of quality authors.

Martin Crosbie has a list of credentials including two published books with the first one selling almost 30,000 ebook copies and became a bestseller on Amazon. He speaks at writer’s groups about self-publishing and he's been mentioned in Publisher’s Weekly and Forbes online. Amazon even called him one of their success stories of 2012. And, in Canada, the Globe and Mail did a full page story on him last year.

Here's what they won't print ... 

This post can be found on Indies Unlimited at http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2013/04/02/the-blog-nobody-wanted-to-publish-except-indies-unlimited/