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After earning an M.A. in Film Theory from the University of British Columbia and all the career opportunities that began presenting themselves, Deborah Peraya had a reality check. “Working at Starbucks was not what I had in mind,” she quickly realized. So, she began teaching in various film programs, and eventually managed to segue to [...]
E-book sales, especially in the thriving romance genre, gave the book business a lift in 2012, according to a survey of publishers released Wednesday. In a year that was monopolized by the ‘Fifty Shades’ erotic novels and their various knockoffs, e-book sales in fiction rose 42 percent over the year before, to $1.8 billion. Growth [...]
Award-winning book designer Joel Friedlander has helped launch the careers of self-publishers since 1994 and writes the popular blog, The Book Designer. Drawing from some of the most useful and informative of his blog posts, Joel published A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, which has been very well-received and highly regarded [...]
Ebooks have been marketed as consumer products, but sales have also been driven by schools… Other publications, including The New York Times, are marketing ebooks as educational resources. ‘Education companies as well as school districts are looking for reality-based content,’ Vice President of News Services Alice Ting said by phone. ‘There’s nothing more reality-based than the [...]
According to documents obtained by TechCrunch, Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion for Nook and will discontinue the Nook tablet business by the end of 2014. The acquisition would give Microsoft control of the device and content business but not the college bookstore business, according to the documents. Should the deal go through, the [...]
Brad Whittington is a Texan, born in Fort Worth “on James Taylor’s eighth birthday and Jack Kerouac’s thirty-fourth,” making Brad “old enough to know better.” Now an Austin resident, he’s lived in Hawaii, Ohio, South Carolina, Arizona and Colorado, doing an even longer list of jobs: janitor, math teacher, field hand, computer programmer, brickyard worker, editor, [...]
If you are contracted with a traditional publisher, you may have restrictions on your ability to self-publish ‘on the side.’ And this is not because publishers are overly possessive, or ‘dinosaurs,’ or ‘just don’t get it.’ It’s because they have an investment to protect, and it’s their responsibility to ensure nothing you do will interfere [...]
Talk to enough authors, and you’ll learn the axiom that anybody can call themselves an agent. It’s easy. Just call yourself one, and boom, you are one. It’s not just agents anymore. With today’s technology, anyone can call themselves a ‘publisher’ or ‘publishing house’ with nothing more than a computer in a home office. This [...]
With a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University, Jackie Pilossoph is a freelance newspaper reporter and weekly columnist for Pioneer Press. She’s also busy freelancing for online magazines and corporations, and writing novels — she’s the author of the rom-coms Free Gift With Purchase, Jackpot!, and Hook, Line and Sink Him — and screenplays. She [...]
Native New Yorker Lara Reznik was ambidextrous at birth, and largely preferred doing stuff with her right-brain creative side. Her left-brain skills, however, made it easier to make a living, so in 1985 she pursued a career in IT. But she also wrote and finished her first novel then. Despite what looked like possible interest [...]
If you’re going to digitally publish, I believe you should own an e-reader, even if just to test how your book looks. They aren’t expensive anymore so there is no excuse. It’s also important to understand how ebook readers shop, because they are the high-volume readers, the ones who will make up the bulk of [...]
Abigail Keam is an award-winning beekeeper, with sixteen Kentucky State Fair honey awards. She also got the Barbara Horn Award, given to beekeepers at the fair who rate a perfect 100 in a honey competition. A metal house by the Kentucky River is what she calls home, where she lives with her husband and “various [...]
Karen Luellen — author of the YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Winter’s Saga series — grew up the middle child, the only girl between two brothers, each with distinctly different personalities. Although she was able to adjust to each brother’s interests and preferences if she wanted a playmate, she still had more than enough time left over by [...]
Born and raised in Cajun country, Lee Stephen literally spent his youth “catching bullfrogs to eat and playing alligators in the bathtub.” Every little boy’s dream, in other words. But he does have a point when he says that it probably is “not the place most people expect to find sci-fi writers.” Yup, Crocodile Dundee, [...]
Novelist David Bishop was born in Washington, D.C., his father a Navy man posted there, and he supposes his early years probably didn’t differ much from many of his own readers’ lives. “We moved around. I got some education. Played some sports, and got some more education,” he says. He was even a financial analyst, [...]
When she was a child growing up in Chicago, Michelle Muto’s favorite stories had monsters and things that lurked in the dark. And she loved storytelling. So she frightened her classmates with stories of monsters and things that lurked in the dark. Which, of course, got her into a lot of trouble with her teachers. [...]
Tara West — best-selling author of the YA paranormal Whispers Series: Sophie’s Secret, Don’t Tell Mother, Krysta’s Curse and Visions of the Witch – is a former high school teacher in Texas who also coached the school’s writing team and ran its publications. She took a break to raise her baby girl, but doing well as [...]
From his nineteen years of experience in the security industry, Australian Luke Romyn must have some really interesting real-life stories to tell. He has, after all, worked in “Australia’s roughest pubs and clubs to protecting Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew from the overzealous jaws of tenacious toddlers.” He’s worked in the field internationally as [...]
After graduating from California State University Hayward with a BA in Philosophy, international bestselling author Susan Hatler found herself going through several “real” jobs in the legal and insurance fields. Then she figured out that her “real” job is “the job she makes real” (and why, she wonders, didn’t anyone tell her before). So now [...]
