As many of you already know (if you signed up for the author alert), e-reader maker and e-book distributer Kobo has just finished beta-testing its self-publishing platform, Writing Life and released it upon a suspecting world.
I interrupt the second Tip Tuesday to talk about something that will have vastly more impact on your writing career than eliminating adverbs or what back matter to put in your books.
Back in early June, eReader company Kobo announced its launch of Writing Life, a platform for independent authors to self-publish their works. I came a little late to this game, but with some persistence emailing the Kobo Support Team, I was able to glean a few details that I’m not sure are publicly, or at least widely, available yet.
Interesting take on online reviewers taking the place of professional book critics…and being just as accurate in their assessments.
My sister is a voracious reader and book-aholic. I have her and my mother to thank for the reading–and, later, the writing–bug that bit me early.
Reading, along with horses and dogs, is an absolute passion for her. She routinely buys whole series of authors she likes, often multiple times (her dogs think of them as chew toys), often in hard cover, often in the Kindle edition.
One of the authors she would follow anywhere on the planet, if asked, is Charlaine Harris. She specifically loves the Sookie Stackhouse series and would trade pints of blood for them if that were the going currency.
But not this time. When the latest Sookie Stackhouse book came out in Kindle format just 16 cents less than the hard cover, she lost it.
I’ll let her tell the story in her blog post, Hey Penguin, Bite Me.
As usual, David Gaughran has one of the better analyses of the publishing and e-publishing industry. Check out his blog on the recent Department of Justice announcements regarding their case against Apple and Big Publishing. A must-read if you’re an indie or would-be indie author.