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- August 9th, 2015, 6:36 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Small Published Author, ebook Question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2361
Re: Small Published Author, ebook Question
Contacting the publisher is a best advised course. Publishing contracts anymore include definition of rights assignment. If the publisher bought the electronic rights, then an independent publication could be an infringement of those rights. However, if the publisher bought those rights and has not ...
- July 2nd, 2015, 11:52 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Optioning our novels
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10080
Re: Optioning our novels
A gmail e-mail account is problematic, says the firm is an amateur operation. Consider a professional domain, like options <at> indiebookblast <dot> com. The text of the website home page leaves me less than enthused, reads like a television commercial for a used car dealership or a "must-have&...
- June 30th, 2015, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Fiction Writer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 24021
Re: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Fiction Writer
The ironic if sarcastic or satirical point of these types of composition exercises is reverse psychology. Conquer your writing vices through giving them a full run of imagination. This is a kind of free-association, stream-of-consciousness activity. Let temptation flow wild and unfettered, so to spe...
- May 6th, 2015, 11:09 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writing from the POV of a god (concealing godliness)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9937
Re: Writing from the POV of a god (concealing godliness)
One of the more certain "laws" of writing is thou shalt not withhold information known to characters from readers. A reasonably firm guidance compared to many so-labeled writing "rules," do not withhold" is open to interpretation, at least for strategies' sakes. Or not, depe...
- April 17th, 2015, 3:05 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Word Frequency Count Software
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5322
Re: Word Frequency Count Software
Wordprocessor apps label the process different names though is a feature of Word, WordPerfect, and similar publishing programs. Wordlist, list, index, conformance, are some of the names. They are usually adjacent to table of contents, reference, and similar tools apps. They can be set to list every ...
- April 2nd, 2015, 2:16 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Funding My Book Through KickStarter; Any Tips?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11985
Re: Funding My Book Through KickStarter; Any Tips?
My stock answer: Marketing's four corners are, packaging, advertising, promotion, and publicity. Kickstarter and any cloud funding service manages the latter three and are usually or exclusively the primary emphasis for marketing campaigns, institutional and self-publication. Packaging usually only ...
- March 29th, 2015, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: CF campaigns by unknown, foreign names?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1940
Re: CF campaigns by unknown, foreign names?
Regardless of language, readers approve of and are attracted to inevitable surprises, features that are inevitable and surprising. Successful debut writers and narratives from abroad, again, regardless of native country, appeal to native and foreigner alike through those inevitable surprises. The In...
- March 28th, 2015, 3:14 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Where do You Hear about New e-Books?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2349
Re: Where do You Hear about New e-Books?
A random, non-scientific survey with statistical anomalies deserves a healthy dose of skepticism. A survey that precludes results and begs the question -- uses the circular logic of a precluded claim assertion and presupposes its conclusions, which this one does -- is as useful as an off-the-cuff op...
- March 7th, 2015, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Publishing Without Amazon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4369
Re: Publishing Without Amazon
A word to the wise: a publisher who publishes the publisher's own works, publishes family's works, and/or publishes personal acquaintances' works lacks professional objectivity, though not proscribed by law, is a conflict of interest, and is a vanity press.
- March 6th, 2015, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Publishing Without Amazon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4369
Re: Publishing Without Amazon
I explored the websites. What is unique about the services offered? Is literature culture advanced by these services' offerings? I see services that are mechanistic and oriented, like so much of publication culture anymore, on toxic caretaker exploitation of self-gratification's vanities. The offeri...
- March 2nd, 2015, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: The Top 10 Things All Authors Should Know About Amazon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3892
Re: The Top 10 Things All Authors Should Know About Amazon
Ingram is a print distribution company, the U.S. print distribution industry leader, as a matter of fact. Ingram deals in volume sales to brick-and-mortar bookstore middleman distributors, to library markets, and institutional outlets, like university bookstores. However, brick-and-mortar bookstore ...
- March 1st, 2015, 4:14 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Transitional Words and Phrases
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13685
Re: Transitional Words and Phrases
But, how on earth do you continually do that for 100,000 words and more? Rhetoric. Figures of speech number thousands of trope and scheme possibilities. More than only the comparatively easy metaphor and allegory, and easiest simile: metalepsis, synchrisis, triciolon, synecdoche, metonymy, syndeton...
- February 27th, 2015, 10:34 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Transitional Words and Phrases
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13685
Re: Transitional Words and Phrases
Transitional terms are a composition method used for formal writing to connect phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs, etc., -- ideas -- together. They persuade readers to continue reading and tie related or contrasted ideas together through a smooth flow. Their use may not be a best practice f...
- February 17th, 2015, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: seeking advice
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4595
Re: seeking advice
Lulu offers distribution packages similar to CreateSpace's options, as does Xlibris: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, Nook, regional, national, and international, and Ingrams, and Lulu's own distribution channel, which is only available through Lulu. Several Lulu features recommend their services o...
- February 17th, 2015, 12:41 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: What're the challenges facing in the Self-Publisher's world?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5491
Re: What're the challenges facing in the Self-Publisher's world?
Unnecessary, unprofessional, and fair-weather profiteers' goods and services scavenging off gullible self-publishing consumers' vanity An ever exponentially expanding plague of narcissistic daydream writing that is static -- the white-noise hiss of a corrupted transmission signal Lack of blunt and ...