On Saturday, Gordon, Kid 2, and I snuck into the Armadillocon as regular attendees to see Jessie Mihalik, who was one of the panelists on Impostor Syndrome Panel. Jessie wrote an interesting article about it. She’s right that imposter syndrome doesn’t go away with success. I’ve talked before about the golden carrot. A rider sits
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Overdrive and Libraries: Everything You Wanted To Know
Today we have the honor of hosting Gingko-girl, who is a member of the BDH and a librarian. She is here to talk about Overdrive and libraries. An Overdrive Primer for the Curious and the Frustrated Hello (waves shyly). My name is Gingko-girl and I am a member of the Book Devouring Horde. I am
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Publishing: Expectations vs Reality
This topic is probably better suited to a professional conference, but it made it on the blog question list, so here we go. A recent article in Bookseller found that “debut authors struggle with the lack of support” and the process of publishing a book “negatively affected” their mental health. Also water is wet, snow
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Self-Publishing: Yet More Questions
If you are wondering why we are revisiting this: some questions were raised in the chat during our last zoom when we discussed the publishing plans for our next project If you self-published a book, is there any case where the publisher will pay for a self-published book and promote it more? There are several
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Editing, Unsolicited Submissions, and Other Fun Things (Part 1)
Mod R is still out on a short vacation, so we are all unsupervised. Luckily, I’ve been given a list of your questions. Let’s get to it. I really love your industry and writing-related posts, so it would be awesome if you could share what happens during the editing process (developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading,
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Covers, Costs, and Artists
Happy Monday! Thank you for all of your coffee grinder suggestions. I pulled the trigger on a more pricy conical grinder which should be great for drip coffee and will report on the results. I’d love to hear about HA’s cover design process. What determines whether you use one of your cover artists and whether
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Agent Query and Rejection Follow Up
I’m so glad that several of you found the previous post useful. After reading the latest article on writing, I would like your take on some specific areas in the querying letter process. I do have sales figures on my original book I published in 2003. The genre is Chinese Silk Embroidery, its ancient developmental
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Agent Queries and Rejections
Have you got any good hints for agent query letters, or how to find one? I’ve self-published eight books on Kindle, and with my new series (that isn’t self-published yet), I’d like to try traditional publishing, but all I’m getting are rejections. My self-published books get decent reviews, so I think my quality can’t be
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Signings and Pretty Books
Our power is back on! Muhahaha! And I have tea. My oolong obsession continues. Has Subterranean Press expressed interest in any more IA books? Will you have any more special collection pretty hardbacks at some point? We are delighted to announce that we have not one, but two projects coming for you. Innkeeper Collected edition
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Oh the Horror
I have been talking about what makes something a horror story elsewhere and considered IA stories as examples of stories with terrifying monsters, life threatening and intense scenarios, but they just are not horror. I’m trying to articulate why, and I would be interested in Ilona’s take. What makes something a horror story? Will Hugh’s
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The To Do List
Many updates on random books topics including print, audio, and most importantly status of Tuna.
Small Updates
This has been such a happy but also such a busy week. I was going to just ramble about life, but I actually have some small updates for you. For those of you who missed it, the Frinndays are returning after the holidays. Audio and things Some people accused Mod R of withholding important information
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