What’s the Real Value of Literary Prizes?
But, now for the article that got me writing this post.
It’s by the fiction and non-fiction writer, critic, and multiple literary prize winner, Amit Chaudhuri, and is titled, My Fellow Authors Are Too Busy Chasing Prizes to Write About What Matters.
What are Your thoughts and feelings about Literary Prizes…?
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The Most Helpful Book I’ve Ever Read About Self-Publishing . . .
It sure can seem like a lot of the info on self-publishing is generated primarily to make money, not to help folks really learn what they need to know.
In fact, many sources of “expertise” are misleading and aimed right at our bank accounts.
It’s also my 31st post featuring Joel Friedlander—usually about posts on his blog, The Book Designer.
I just finished reading his book A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish.
I should add that he gives an even-hand to fiction and non-fiction writers.
This is an extremely valuable book, written in a voice that makes consistent sense, based on hard-earned experience.
Two Kinds of Self-Publishers ~ Which One Are You?
What Does It Take to Make a Publishing Company?
Is It Time to Kill “Jerry”?
Top 10 Worst Self-Publishing Mistakes ~ Explained!
Is the Paradise We’ve Lost the Beautiful Page?
The dance routine for pursuing traditional publishing can take a seeming eternity to produce a book. Self-publishing can be done swiftly.
Even with all the gatekeeping rituals of traditional publishing, lousy books are produced. Self-publishing can create books as good as any big house.
In June, I wrote The Complexities of Publishing and featured a post by Joel Friedlander that touts traditional publishing’s strong points.
Today, I want to feature the ideas of Seth Godin.
Long before I began writing Notes from An Alien, I’d read a copy of Seth Godin’s book, Unleashing The Idea Virus.
Seth is a modern-day genius in marketing, computer-awareness, book promotion, tribe-building, and providing creatively simple and profoundly practical advice.