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Marketing Books as an Indie Author

When you’re an independent author, almost every job falls to you as the publisher of your work. There is no Marketing Department, no Public Relations, no Distribution. As a self-published author, all of those jobs fall in my lap.

Endeavour Award Finalists Announced

Four novels and a single-author collection of stories are finalists for the Endeavour Award. The 2015 Award will be the sixteenth year for the Endeavour, which comes with an honorarium of $1,000.00.

In Praise of Rejectomancy

by Kate Heartfield In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was a dabbler in short fiction. I wrote about one story each year. I’d send that story out once, maybe twice if I felt cocky, and then I’d trunk it, figuring that a rejection or two meant a story was no good. Somehow, despite this method […]

Shuffling Stories, Arranging Anthologies

“Put your biggest names first and last, and then load everything else in the middle.”

That was how I learned to format anthologies. It makes sense: when someone’s browsing an anthology, they’re most likely to first look at the front and the back of the book.