All Entries Tagged With: "publicity"

4 Other Ways to Get a Literary Agent

In today’s publishing industry the traditional methods of getting a literary agent is as follow: (1) aspiring writer submits manuscript to literary agent (2) agent either accepts manuscript or rejects it. It’s no real secret, that’s how it usually goes, and the publishing industry today is cutthroat for new authors. This is added to the [...]

15 Ways Science Fiction Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity

In these troubled times publishers can use every advantage to make them one step ahead of their competition. However, with a stressful ever-increasing workload sometimes it’s easy to become jaded into what your readers think about your imprint when you work from the inside of the publishing industry. Fortunately, I’m in the unique position of [...]

Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity II

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Here is part two of my four part series entitled “Five Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity”. For those that haven’t read part one (Click Here) otherwise check out the list below.

1) Highlight Editors Blogs

If there’s something I love more than reading the blogs of my favorite science fiction [...]

Amazon Encore Unveiled

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Now for those of you that are as interested in topics of publishing as I am (which may in fact be very few but I’ll write it anyway)  that Amazon has decided to release its own publishing imprint called Amazon Encore. The site will be designed to give a leg-up to already self-published [...]

5 Ways SF/F Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity I

In these troubled times publishers can use every advantage to make them one step ahead of their competition. However, with a stressful ever-increasing workload sometimes it’s easy to become jaded into what your readers think about your imprint when you work from the inside of the publishing industry. Fortunately, I’m in the unique position of [...]

The Five Biggest Myths of First-Time Authors

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Myth: First-Time Authors Make a lot of Money

In actuality the average sum for a first-time novelist is around $5000. Now keep in mind this is just for the advance from the publisher and doesn’t take into account future sales. And this $5000 isn’t given in one lump sum either, it’s actually cut into [...]

BigIdeaAuthors.com to be Spearheaded by Scalzi

Firstly, let me apologize for not posting this yesterday, I would have but I somehow deleted it at my workplace.

It’s harder than ever to get published today. The fact is not only are less books being published today, but less people are buying books overall (not because they don’t enjoy reading but because people today [...]

If so many SF Authors have blogs, why aren’t they using Twitter?

I like to think that science fiction authors are particularly savvy when it comes to promoting their own material. Not just because science fiction is a notoriously difficult genre to compete in (and in my opinion a market that is shrinking) most are usually early adopters of technology as well. However, one question still eludes [...]