I have been fortunate over the last six weeks to work with Lionel Shriver, work-shopping my writing and receiving 1:1 tutorials. In my final tutorial I quizzed her about self-publishing. She has some serious worries about piracy in a digital age and authors having their work stolen. However, she also acknowledged that it is now a viable route to becoming…
Month: May 2014
Indie or traditional publishing for me? Part 2 – the Author Earnings Report
On my second day at LBF I attended the Introduction to Publishing seminar, taken by Patrick Janson-Smith (publisher, Harper Collins); Hellie Ogden (literary agent, (Janklow and Nesbitt); Tim Whiting (editor, Little Brown) and Sheryl Shurville (owner Chorleywood Bookshop). I came away with a good understanding that agents/editors/publishers do a lot! I asked the bookshop owner about stocking indie-published books –…
Indie or traditional publishing for me? Part 1 – the question.
Back in February, for my MA Professional Writing industry analysis, I posed the question: Is self-publishing via the e-publishing route the best option for a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres? In this three-part blog I will discuss my findings to date, with the intention of understanding the best way to get my Wearde World fantasy sequence to…
Hugh Howey, goals and dreams
I met Hugh at London Book Fair a couple of weeks back. I’m a big fan of the Wool trilogy, so it was great to meet someone who is a bit of a hero of mine. I’ve become increasingly interested in the possibilities of indie-publishing and made it the focus of my publishing industry research, in the lead up to…
