It's not that I don't
value fiction writing, but the price you pay for entertainment has to be representative vs the price you pay for actionable content.
Not exact matches
I am very honest, extremely affectionate, laid back, very happy guy that loves to exercise.I am adventurous, have strong Christian
values, loves music, loves movies, loves song
writing, and
fiction writing.
I especially
value her perspective because she has experience in both the non-
fiction and
fiction worlds (in addition to
writing, blogging, and podcasting about indy publishing, she also authors the ARKANE action adventure thriller series and the London Psychic crime thrillers).
I'm not really into short
fiction but can see the
value in
writing them and cutting those words down.
If it is all about our audience and the
value they receive from our books (I
write fiction so my goal is to provide entertainment) then giving them a lower price thanks to sponsors should work great.
Short
fiction may be best viewed as an exercise to add to your
writing regimen, but it does have a number of ways to add
value to your author brand.
As far as the ongoing need or demand for traditional publishers, it's tough to imagine their demise when it comes to non-commodity authors, though I do worry that if publishers have been playing at the commodity publishing game all along (which they have), and their existing corporate parents expect growing profits, should we expect their fortunes to fall if / when the genre
fiction authors increasingly go - it - alone -LCB--LCB- 3 -RCB--RCB--LSB-[3]-RSB- I've also
written about my concern that traditional publishers may not evolve to offer sufficient
value for authors.