Carla King interview with Christopher Locke, Membership Liaison, IBPA Subjects covered The main subject of this episode is book reviews. IBPA prefers the term “author-publisher” because term “self-published” makes it sound as though au author do it all themselves; but, if they’re doing it right, they’re hiring people to help with the process. Trade reviews
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We are San Francisco’s writers conference. It is in our bones to embrace & elevate diverse voices.
We are San Francisco’s writers conference and as such it is part of our cultural identity to embrace and elevate diverse voices. This is challenging in an industry where white privilege is heavily entrenched, but we have always embraced this challenge. It’s part of why we embrace disruptive trends like self-publishing. It’s why we work
Read MoreEmpowering Authors with Direct Marketing and Presales
Carla King interviews Smashwords, Mark Coker Subjects covered The biggest imperative for authors in 2020 is to build and own a marketing platform that they control. Retailers and social media platforms mediate the author/reader relationship, preventing direct interaction. A mailing list is essential for authors to have a direct relationship with their readers. While direct
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Podcast-Direct Sales: Benefits for Authors Chelsea Bennet
Carla King interview with Chelsea Bennet of Lulu.com Direct sales allows authors more control, enabling them to own the customer journey, including gathering data unavailable through traditional sales channels such as Amazon. Having an author website is critical, so that readers have a hub to visit—and because it can act as a platform for direct
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Sentence Starts – Journaling for Insight and Solutions
Monday Motivation By B. Lynn Goodwin Since our bodies are confined but our minds are not, I’d like to share these sentence starts with you in case you could use a writing nudge as we shelter in place. I’ve been creating these writing prompts since 2004, then writing about them with my free-writing group. I’ve
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Walter Mosley speaks on not picking a lane, fomenting change, and the publishing industry
Podcast Interview by Joey Garcia with guest Walter Mosley. When questioned about his thoughts on writers sometimes being told to “pick a lane and stay in it,” i.e., choose fiction or nonfiction—but not both—Mosley explained that notion is inherently a capitalist one. He added that even when artists are told that what they are working
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