Nothing really to do with self-publishing… Heard of “Earth Hour”?

I’m probably coming ‘late to the party’ as the saying goes, but I just became aware of a movement called Earth Hour – which bills itself as… “…the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to [...]

Clean Up!

While spring is a common time to clean up the house or office, I’m also going to use it to approach a topic that can be challenging within the realm of self-publishing… copyediting. I suggest that authors considering self-publishing approach their spring cleaning as an opportunity to perform a different kind of cleaning: one that [...]

Using Amazon Connect as book promotion for the self publishing author

(we are getting this question quite a bit – so I’m posting a reprint of an article on Amazon Connect from the Dog Ear Publishing web site) What is Amazon Connect …  and why is it important to a self published author? AmazonConnect is a highly targeted blog within Amazon.com where authors can do a [...]

An Interview with F. X. Mathews

F. X. Mathews is a man who has seen it all–at least as far as publishing and self-publishing is concerned. Recently it came to my attention that Mathews, one of our self-published authors, has also had some success in the traditional publishing world. He is the author of the self-published The Garden of the Whale-Fishes, [...]

Writer’s Digest – Everything You Need to Know About Self Publishing

This edition of Writer’s Digest (the March / April 2009 edition) has an amazing selection of articles on self-publishing – and actually does an amazing job of covering, literally, just about everything you actually need to know to get started self publishing your book. In the interest of full disclosure, as most of you know [...]

Self publishing & the e-book: B&N buys an e-book retailer

I’ll step in to what might be controversy here, but what the heck. Typically, e-books have not been a large source of revenue for self-published authors. At Dog Ear Publishing, our self published authors have almost never seen sales from an e-book amount to even 1% of their print product. So, it was with interest [...]

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