I've rarely followed such a «textbook case»
of excellent author marketing and blogging best practices.
I know that there are
excellent authors out there working with world class editors to give us books that don't receive half of the attention of this dating book.
Also, remember to check out writing blogs by
excellent authors like Chuck Wendig, Holly Lisle, and Brandon Sanderson.
I agree that traditional publishers have stifled creativity and passed over too
many excellent authors for the sake of the bottom line.
There are thousands of
excellent authors working outside that old system of gatekeepers, agents, and editor - driven production.
But caught up in the great purge are some fine erotica and even erotic romance works
by excellent authors - excellent SELF PUBLISHED authors.
But I can't help but wonder
about excellent authors like Sara Miles who write about faith, but who break a few «Christian» rules while doing so... or about the many great writers of faith who published before there was a «Christian» category.
The success of Mike Rohde's first book, The Sketchnote Handbook, was pretty much a sure thing long before its publication, because of Mike Rohde's
excellent author marketing and monthly updates while he was writing it.
Whatever the case may be there, we're proud of how far self - publishing has come — and that it perhaps poses a legitimate challenge to those systems and structures which have been
gatekeeping excellent authors out of publishing until the rise of self - publishing set them free.
One of the main reasons
why excellent authors get scammed is desperation and you should never get to that point.
They are like the folks in the discussion thread last week who see only the bad in indie and don't recognize that there are a number
of excellent authors out there, more and more of whom are starting to make a living from indie publishing.
I would like to see
this excellent author better address issues on how to manage nursing one's toddler while working either FT or PT, as well as managing / balancing home life - this is reality for so many women.
I wish my ex-colleagues at Pearson, New Zealand, as well as
the excellent authors and freelance editors and designers I worked with regularly, the best.
I think Norton is
an excellent author, and she didn't have to waste words or time to make her characters alive and real.
Or sometimes
an excellent author's first and second books both fall off readers» radar.
The paperback version was published via
the excellent Authors Online a few months later.
William Bernstein (
the excellent author of The Intelligent Asset Allocator, The Four Pillars of Investing, etc.) had a good post on the Permanent Portfolio.
There's no doubt our talented editorial and production staff make a great contribution, but I believe the magic ingredient is the combined wisdom of
our excellent authors and editorial boards.
You are
an excellent author Ross.