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Sometimes you just have to take things into your own hands.
I just published my newest novel, The Rectory, on Amazon. In a few months, I’ll publish it through Smashwords so it’s available for other platforms. I’ve joined the e-generation.
I had hoped, naïvely, to sell it to… Read more 
GUILDHALL PRESS in association with the Arts Council of N Ireland & Derry Central Library are delighted to invite you & guests to the book launch of THE DANGEROUS EDGE OF THINGS A Debut Collection of Short Stories by FREYA MCCLEMENTS Central Library, Foyle Street, Derry Thursday 26 July 2012 @ 7pm with Guest Speaker: read more »
A big bio about Joe Paterno, due to be published in a few weeks, has been the victim of controversy. Simon and Schuster’s Paterno, by Joe Posnanski, is suffering from bad timing.
The publisher has cancelled a tour, and marketing is going to be difficult, now that the late coach’s… Read more 
If you had decided to self-publish your book, then you were approached by a publisher, would you sign?
It might mean giving up some control. But it also might mean a level of prestige, or at least the acknowledgement that some third party considers your work to have merit.
Of… Read more 
In case you hadn’t noticed, digital books are now the dominant format for adult fiction.
Nonfiction is surely to follow. Eventually, even more business books, as a category within nonfiction, will likely be released digitally. For now, most business books are published traditionally, that is, on paper.
But digital is… Read more 
The demand for books is still there. It’s just moved to the e-universe.
You knew that.
But you should know, too, that you will want to be able to populate that universe with as many e-books as you can, to build your brand and expand your platform. That’s… Read more 
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Communications are shorter, but are people still reading longer?
This matters if you’re writing a book.
A technology columnist posted in The New York Times that he’s decided to give up email, since it’s become outmoded in today’s world of texting and instant messaging through a variety of… Read more 
The old saying that we “treasure what we measure”—and vice versa—turns out to be highly relevant in networking.
I created a survey of 12,000 men and women for one of my most recent books. As my co-authors and I explored the extent to which survey respondents correlated success and networking,… Read more Have you ever looked everywhere for something but all along it was right THERE next to you?The series carries on, Today we look at 7 Things You Should Know About Pinterest.
Another self-published author has landed a book deal.
Is this good news?
Yes, if you still feel being published by a big publisher is the key to making your name.
No, if you feel that self-publishing and building a following on your own are more important than being distributed by… Read more As previously promised, here is part 3 of the series about social web development and element of self publishing. 
It’s time for the 2012 Comic-Con International convention in San Diego!
You’ll find Orbit Books at booth #1118. Mira Grant, Gail Carriger and N.K. Jemisin will also be in attendance this year. See below for a full list of …
Time for questions without answers.
How many books are sitting around your home unread?
Or, these books having been read, how many lie there simply collecting dust?
Are you a book-as-furnishings kind of person or a book-as-content one?
If you’re the kind of person who laments the rise of… Read more 
The History Press Ireland has just published a book with well-known economist Peter Bacon. Although Bacon is best known as an economist, he authored several reports on the Housing Market during the bubble and is considered the architect of NAMA, Land Lust & Gunsmoke is not an economic tome. In fact the book deals with read more »
Another stunning week for the Fifty Shade Trilogy which cleared just shy of 20,000 units over three titles. Amazingly, two authors are responsible for six of the top ten titles, surely an odd occurrence in any top ten chart. Perhaps most remarkable of all is just how many more copies than the rest Fifty Shades is read more »
Blackstaff Press has announced the acquisition of a new title by Tony Macaulay, the bestselling author of Paperboy! Senior Editor Helen Wright bought world rights in Breadboy which will be published in paperback in Spring 2013. Helen said: ‘We’re all great fans of Paperboy and so we’re thrilled to be publishing its sequel Breadboy – read more »