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#VanityPublishing: Business Model or Author Exploitation?
PublishingNext 2015 roundup. Part 2 Vanity publishing has arrived at publishing conferences and literary festivals, and this should be of great concern because vanity publishing is less about emulating...
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The New Publishing #Juggernaut
Pretty much everyone in the Indian writing and publishing world knows by now that Chikki Sarkar, former publisher at Penguin Random House India, is launching a digital publishing company named...
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Successful Ways to Utilize Mobile Marketing for eBook Promotion: Guest Post
Successful Ways to Utilize Mobile Marketing for eBook Promotion One of the greatest aspects of eBooks in the digital age is that anyone can get published. Without the barrier to entry, anything seems...
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Guest Post: How I Became a #Bestseller in horror on #Amazon India
When I published my debut book via Amazon, something incredible happened. Within a week of its release, it shot to the #1 slot of Amazon India’s New Horror Releases. When Rasana Atreya ma’am approached...
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50 Shades of #FanFiction
When Christine Nolfi, bestselling author and awesome sauce, suggested I write fan fiction for the Lei Crime Series (#LeiCrimeKW), my first reaction was – but I don’t do 50 Shades of Gray! ☺ (If you’re...
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When A Major National Newspaper Decided to Screw Indian Writers Over
I’m reproducing blogger Sid Balachandran‘s post with his permission: Dear TOI Write India team, I am upset. Upset, is perhaps a very loose term to use here. I am frustrated, agitated, pissed off and...
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The Times of India’s Attempt at Rights Grab
Check out Victoria Strauss’s post on Writer Beware on why it is critical that writers read the fine print carefully before they submit their writing to contests or publishers. This is what Victoria...
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Writing and #Publishing in #India / #UK / #US
This is a great overview by Sriram Subramanian. Reposted with permission. This is in response to a post last night, where someone was ranting about the environment abroad for full-time writers being...
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#Querying #Publishers in the US
Here’s an update to the post below by Allison Williams: I’ll add something for authors who wish to query in the USA – literary agent Janet Reid‘s blog is terrifically helpful with query and process...
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I get these same questions so often that I decided to turn this into a blog post: I have a manuscript. How do I self-publish it?Before you self-publish this: * If you have writer friends, get them to...
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