Shooting Themselves in the Foot: A Brief Reconsideration of Traditional and Self-Publishing
Anyone who reads this blog, or has in the past, knows that I am hypercritical of self-publishing. In some respects, the entire industry deserves it, since it is full of shady practices, shady “gurus,” liars, scammers, and so on. In a way, self-publishing is an industry that allows for such problems to grow and fester […]
The Best Liars: Self-publishing and My New Dilemma
I’ve become tainted against self-publishing. That is probably clear to those of you who read this blog, since I’ve written a number of posts about self-publishers (see this label for others), but it has now become clear to me on a different level. I’ve said numerous times in the past that there are good self-publishers […]
Self-publishing Fail: Achieving Weak Goals is Meaningless
I’m still on my anti-self-publishing kick, primarily because there has been a lot of really crazy things popping up on the Internet as of late, such as B&N’s decision to get their hands into the self-publishing pot. One post that bothered me the most recently was The Book Designer’s 26 Ways to Win At Self-Publishing. […]
Self-publishing Lies and Myths: Deception and Unethical Practices
I’ve railed against this idea before in smaller form, but I wanted to address this particular self-publishing issue directly. A whole lot of self-publishers and the people that support them have been advocating the practice of creating individual “imprints” to market one’s book. Sue Collier recently blogged about this very concept, albeit rather briefly, in […]
Self-publishing Lies and Myths: Short Fiction and Poetry
Every couple of months I open a search list on my Tweetdeck for “self-publishing” and let it run for a few weeks before cutting it off again. I do this because it’s difficult to stomach the lies, misinformation, and overly optimistic nonsense that tends to flood that channel. I’m in another one of my phases […]
A Few More Lies For the Ignorant (Part One)
So, having already spoken on the Harlequin mess, wasn’t I surprised to find this article over at Self-Publishing Review with a whole lot of nonsense for the price of zero (the post is a guest post, so I don’t know how well it reflects what the owners of the site wish to portray, since I […]