Review Meta Fail

Review Meta Fail

Self-publishing guru David Gaughran may have shed some light on the recent review purge by Amazon. There’s an article doing the rounds at the moment from the Washington Post suggesting that the Amazon is undergoing some kind of fake review crisis. There are problems with Amazon reviews, of course, but…
April 30, 20186 Comments
Trad Pub Is Dead

Trad Pub Is Dead

AAA video game designer Mark Kern recently took to Twitter seeking publishing advice, and luckily for him Galaxy's Edge co-author Nick Cole answered. That was quite an enlightening barrage of truth bombs Nick dropped there. I'm also sure he's earned another satisfied customer. Sadly, a nasty case of tradpub Stockholm syndrome…
April 23, 201811 Comments

Pacific Rim Uprising

Join Daddy Warpig, Dorrinal, and best selling Galaxy's Edge author Jason Anspach for the latest installment of Geek Gab. Learn the secrets of the sci-fi indie pub champs. And in keeping with the #AGundamForUs theme, our hosts and their special guest also review Pacific Rim Uprising. This is sure to…
March 26, 2018
Red Pill Religion

Red Pill Religion

Last night I had the pleasure of joining Dragon Award-nominated author Declan Finn and the Red Pill Religion crew for a discussion of human spirituality in science fiction. We also digressed onto the issue of indie pub marketing. This is the second time I've joined host Dean Esmay for a…
March 23, 201810 Comments
#AGundamForUs

#AGundamForUs

This could be your Gundam, even though it's not technically a Gundam. Writer Bradford Walker concurs with yesterday's post on the need for a Western answer to the moribund Japanese mecha franchises and adds his own rallying cry. Left unsaid is this: fixing the issues is on us. We have…
March 22, 201827 Comments
How Publishing Companies Die

How Publishing Companies Die

Over at Jeffro's blog, veteran author, editor, and publisher Jeff Duntemann delivers his own Blood in the Streets prediction for the Big Five New York publishing houses. Ebooks have *not* plateaued. Perhaps ebooks published with an ISBN–something of less and less usefulness as time goes on–but you can sell ebooks…
March 6, 201819 Comments
Digital Manga Outsells Print

Digital Manga Outsells Print

But eBooks are just a passing fad, right? Reports by both The Huffington Post on Monday and the NHK World on Tuesday noted that annual sales of digital manga volume sales overtook sales of physical manga volumes for the first time in 2017. The reports, citing the Research Institute for…
March 2, 20189 Comments
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B&N’s Bloody Monday

Barnes and Noble, biggest of the few remaining big book stores, is on its last legs if these independent sources cited by The Digital Reader are correct. Yesterday Barnes & Noble shook the business world when they fired an unknown number of experienced employees. The initial report said B&N had…
February 15, 201811 Comments
Adam Smith on Self-Publishing

Adam Smith on Self-Publishing

This past weekend, indie author Adam Smith sat down to chat about his new adventure novel Making Peace with Daddy Warpig and Dorrinal on Geek Gab. Check it out! I'm delighted to see that Adam's first novel has met with such extraordinary success, and not just because I edited it. We need…
February 5, 2018
Nick Cole and the New Pulp Age

Nick Cole and the New Pulp Age

This past Saturday marked author Nick Cole's triumphant return to Geek Gab. It's a take-no-prisoners episode in which Daddy Warpig and Dorrinal get Nick to spill all of his secrets for making Galaxy's Edge a smash indie success. My takeaways from the episode: Publishers are screwed. Not just the Big…
January 29, 20188 Comments