Tag: self-publishing
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Mandelbrot and Genre Writing
I’ve been in the post-book-release period of my writing cycle where I don’t know what I’m doing next, and I don’t know what I should be reading, so I start poring over non-fiction, usually some junk science book. Specifically, it’s that James Gleick book Chaos, which is about chaos theory and the butterfly effect. I mostly…
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Goodbye, iUniverse
No, iUniverse isn’t going out of business. (Well, maybe they are – I haven’t checked.) I’ve just decided to pull my books from iUniverse. I’ve done three books with them, and the idea of print on demand radically changed my writing career. I mean, I have not made millions from it, but prior to…
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Self-publishing
I’ve been thinking more about this whole self-publishing thing. Printing copies of Rumored and selling them wouldn’t be much of a paradigm shift over when I printed copies of Xenocide and sold them from my apartment. It would cost about a jillion times more – actually, it wouldn’t cost that much more, since Xenocide 5…