Another post on self-publishing

| June 25, 2009

Today the #followreader conversation on Twitter covers self-publishing, and I just wrote this post to the Utah Children’s Writers list in answer to a similar question, so I’m reproducing it here for a wider audience: I think you could pretty much group everyone’s comments on what someone who self-publishes has to do under the umbrella [...]

Guest interview: Sandra Tayler on self-publishing

| November 13, 2008

From time to time on this blog, we’ve discussed self-publishing, and from those posts you would probably know that in general I’m against it, if you’re looking to make a living as a writer. The Eragons are far outweighed by the thousands of books every year that don’t break even, I’ve argued. But I also pointed out [...]

On self publishing vs. trade publishing

| February 21, 2008

I’ve had conversations with a few friends outside the publishing industry lately who tell me that they think self publishing is the way to go for their fiction. They’ve got a lot of reasons for it, but the one that stands out is that they think they can make more money by self-publishing, because writers [...]