All posts for the month April, 2013

R is for Reviews

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You are shopping for a book online. You see the little picture of what it would look like if you could see it. You see the description (which is often not the jackback) the author thought you should know about the book. Still, you are not sure. Where do you turn? The reviews.

Q is for Quality & Quantity

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How often have you heard the argument of quality over quantity? Why is quality a question in the first place? Better still, why are the two considered mutually exclusive? Repetition Have you ever seen an assembly line? The people on the line have specialized tasks, which they do over and over. In that repetition comes […]

P is for Price

In a sea of numbers (ISBN, pages, words), price is the most important number an author assigns to a book. Both ends of the spectrum have the same result: No sales.

O is for OOP

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No, no. There is no misspelling. OOP. It is an official classification. You have to ask yourself, Why would anyone do it?

N is for Next

Let’s have an argument. Authors and publishers have this argument with far more frequency than you might imagine. The question at issue: What do I do next?