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Don’t Assume Malice: Giving a Bit of Grace

Let’s talk about books and copyrights for a second. I recently came across a reel where a fellow author calls out a very specific section of licensing notes in a printed edition of an Indie book, and I have thoughts.  Before I get into that, though, I want to make clear that this is in no way intended to criticize this particular content creator, or what they said, which is why I’m not sharing the reel, or naming the creator. They were partly correct, and I’m not disputing that. But the first thing I thought when I saw it was, “What was the purpose behind sharing this information?” And maybe this is my own experience as an Indie coloring my… Read More »Don’t Assume Malice: Giving a Bit of Grace

The thorn on the rose (and in my side)

I write this post for authors. Forgive me, dear readers, for pulling back the curtain behind which you may or may not want to see. I don’t do it to garner sympathy–I don’t do that–I just think better on paper, so to speak, so this is my way of trying to work through an issue I know other writers share. Maybe someone out there knows of a solution I haven’t thought of yet. Never hurts to ask, right?

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Self-Publishing: The New Gold Rush

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On January 24, 1848, one lucky fellow named James W. Marshall found gold in California. For the next seven years, hordes of hopefuls flocked to the West Coast state in hopes of striking it rich with a pickaxe and just a bit of luck. For the vast majority of them, that never happened. What did happen was thousands of opportunistic entrepreneurs making a fortune selling gold seekers the tools they needed for forty times the actual price.

While self-publishing is by no means a new idea, it follows a similar trend. According to Wikipedia (so take the info with a grain of salt), in 2008, there were more books self-published than published by traditional means for the first time in history. For those who got into the eBook publishing game that early, the following handful of years were truly fruitful. The eBook market expanded rapidly as people not only accepted digital books, but embraced them with amazing enthusiasm. Those authors made tidy little fortunes, some even went full-time or built up enough status to rival traditionally published bestsellers, and like James W. Marshall, those early success stories had budding authors all over the world flocking to self-publishing in droves.

But that growth stage of endless opportunity is over now.

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