Self publishing requires a strong First Amendment – support 1 for All

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Ray Robinson

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“ It seems so easy to understand, yet I doubt any [...]

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Publishing Trolls – Breaking Down Authors One Page at a Time

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Ray Robinson

Scenario:  You have been writing your book for some time, and it is finally completed.  After all of the work and effort you put into it, you are genuinely proud of your creation.  People may frequently look down on you because you are an author (and authors are supposed to be broke and unsuccessful), but [...]

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

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Ray Robinson

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 [...]

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Is publishing ‘recession-proof’? How about self publishing?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Ray Robinson

“American Adults Reading More Literature” is the heading of a recent article in Book Business (a web site dedicated to the business of, well, books…) about a report produced by the National Endowment for the Arts that shows readership among American adults grew significantly since 2002. The time frame (6 years) seems to be rather [...]

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Lesson of missed opportunity in self publishing…

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Ray Robinson

You know that saying about when opportunity knocks, all you need to do is open the door? Well, I got a good lesson in that today – and it brings to light how opportunities abound for promoting you, your book, your web site… pretty much anything that you’d like to display to the world. One [...]

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“Are You Really SELF Publishing?” and arguing semantics

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Ray Robinson

A ‘red-letter’ day … two posts, primarily because I couldn’t resist… A continuing argument within the world of self publishing is creating a definition of what exactly self publishing means… I received an email newsletter today that used the Wikipedia definition. The newsletter made the statement, “Wikipedia defines self publishing as ” the publishing of [...]

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Ten Things Editors and Agents Hate – applied to Self Publishing

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Ray Robinson

Joe Wikert’s blog – Publishing2020 – has a post referencing a blog that lists the top 10 items publishing editors and book agents dislike. Joe applied comments that referenced the traditional publishing world – but it’s a list that has application for everyone interested in self publishing – not so much because some editor or [...]

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