RT’s Giant Bookfair
Yesterday was RT’s Giant Bookfair. It was easily the most intense signing I’ve ever been at. Authors rubbed shoulder…
bad indie author no cookie
Traditional versus self publishing: official death match 2014
On twitter the other day, Smart Bitch Sarah remarked that it’s sad that the discussion about ways to publish has turned into an…
A note on historical romance sales in print
Jeannie Lin writes really awesome historical romances. These historical romances are also set in China. I want to commend her publisher…
Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!
One of the kerfuffles that has rolled around lately has to do with a post that Barry Eisler did on J.A. Konrath’s blog, where Barry…
a mea culpa
This is just a brief post. The monster second part will be up soon.
I stated this in the comments to my post last night, but I think this issue…
Changes
The question people consistently asked me over the last days at the RWA National Conference went something like this: “So, Courtney,…
Unpacking assumptions about percentages
One of the most oft-repeated arguments that I see in self-publishing is this notion that you should not give a percentage of your work…
So, that whole “legacy publishing” thing…
You may note that I haven’t used the words “legacy publishing” to talk about traditional publishers.
There’s…