A couple of weeks back, my writing friend Val and I were talking in chat. For once it wasn't about abusing characters and all the evil deeds that I plague upon them. Noooo, this time we were chatting about the publicity, marketing and what might be in store for publishing. Boring stuff but important.
One point that came up was the future of eBooks. My thoughts on this, I believe this is where publishing is heading. Not completely. (Even with the invasion of ipods and mp3 players, there are still CDs being sold.) But I think the time is coming quicker than expected. Days past, folks might've gotten a good chuckle at that or ridiculed writers who took an offer from an epublisher. Laugh all you want but now big houses like HarperCollins, Harlequin and others are formatting books for electronic format.
Granted, if you're looking for major deals--like brand new hardcover releases for five dollars--you'll be disappointed. Authors, agents, editors, copy editors and publicists all seem to like eating and keeping a roof over their heads. But still...I think the prices would come down some. Along with the portable eReaders like Kindle, Sony and Bookwise. Who wants to be trapped at their desk all day? Not me.
Anyway, these were just my private musings with a friend on Yahoo but imagine my surprise when I spotted several links about eBook trends this week. The one I found interesting: Barnes and Noble buying Fictionwise.
http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-im-optimistic-about-future-of-books.html
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6641877.html?nid=2286&source=title&rid=
http://www.ebookwise.com/ebookwise/ebookwise1150.htm
http://www.fictionwise.com/bn.htm
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Friday, March 06, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
It's been a long time...
Way too long actually but after my pc sort of caught fire--okay, there were no flames but plenty of smoke--I fell into a deep, gloomy place. Not a pretty place. And this is not something I'm proud to admit to, either. Normally, I don't have these issues. But this hasn't exactly been an ordinary year.
I needed to find some sense of peace in my upside down world. I needed to write. In January, Forward Motion set up the Advanced Writers Board and of course, it has monthly challenges, so I thought I'd jump in with a writing goal. Write ANYTHING.
First couple of weeks didn't go to plan. (Talk about feeling crappier.) Then it came down to tough love--no surfing the net until I wrote in the morning. Yes, that meant no yahoo IM, either. I still had my obligation for FM but that was it.
Every morning, after the last child was out the door, I went upstairs to work on my laptop. (I made sure the wireless was turned off.) I wrote. And wrote. Some days it came to only 900 words, other days I would hit 4000 without thinking. And for the first time in a very long time, I felt centered. I felt happy. Then it happened, on Thursday at 11:50 AM, I finished Brooklyn.
I needed to find some sense of peace in my upside down world. I needed to write. In January, Forward Motion set up the Advanced Writers Board and of course, it has monthly challenges, so I thought I'd jump in with a writing goal. Write ANYTHING.
First couple of weeks didn't go to plan. (Talk about feeling crappier.) Then it came down to tough love--no surfing the net until I wrote in the morning. Yes, that meant no yahoo IM, either. I still had my obligation for FM but that was it.
Every morning, after the last child was out the door, I went upstairs to work on my laptop. (I made sure the wireless was turned off.) I wrote. And wrote. Some days it came to only 900 words, other days I would hit 4000 without thinking. And for the first time in a very long time, I felt centered. I felt happy. Then it happened, on Thursday at 11:50 AM, I finished Brooklyn.
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