Of Amazon, BookSurge, Publishing and Self-publishing

Tracy Cooper-Posey, a fiction writer who blogs at Anchored Authors (anchored, as in anchored to a day job), has an excellent post called: Publishing terms, POD and the Amazon “Thing”

She gives short, pithy and accurate definitions of the various publishing stratgies at least theoretically available to book writers. I say “theoretically” because it’s so darn difficult to get a trade or New York (as Tracy calls them) publisher.

She’s also got a lucid explanation of how Amazon is proposing to change the way they deal with self-publishers.

Since I still would like to get at least one novel written and published, I poked around the rest of her blog. Although I haven’t yet found the magic key that will enable me to plots, there’s valuable stuff there, and not just for fiction writers.

Write well and often,

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