Prevarication, Evaluation, Publication, & Opportune-ation

This week as the New Year begins, I've been busier than usual whilst learning a new program just for the fun of it, reading another work for a review that I hope to post in the next day or so (check back soon!), and trying to see if I want to use the new blog feature Amazon is beginning to offer authors who are interested in the program's potential--all while trying to (of course) write.

Does it sound like I'm avoiding my work? Well, although on occasion I do have a rather bad tendency to prevaricate the task at hand, at least this time the projects I've been distracted with actually do have something to do with the main event.

But onto the show:


Here's an interesting article by Margaret Jennings titled, "The Power of a Comprehensive Editorial Evaluation." The point of the article is to make one consider what they're actually getting when ordering an editing service based on a per-word fee schedule and also discusses the average going rates for independent copyeditors and roughly how much they can do in an hour or so, depending on the material. Check it out when you get the chance.

LINK: http://blog.selfpublishing.com/?p=81


And I also came across this interesting tidbit titled: "Know do's, don'ts of self-publishing: Outlets offer unknown writers fair shake at cracking the market" by Billy Cox published in Florida Today.

I don't think the title is as appropriate as it should be since it isn't so much a "do or don't" thing, but it starts with the tale of two authors--one who published on his own (self-published) and another who pubbed via PA--and the reasons they chose those directions then continues into some comments about publishing from Joyce Henderson, president of the Space Coast Writers Guild. Also included are some very interesting stats about the average amount of books sold and how many were sold by a recent "best seller."

But what's really interesting are the numbers from Bowker (I love numbers lol) in regards to publishing revenue and readers and what category of books hit an all-time high in 2004. There's also a quote from Andrew Grabois, a consultant for Bowker Books In Print, about self-publishing too that you don't want to miss as well as hint from Henderson of "…how many rejection slips writers should suffer before bailing out…"

Something I think we all really want to know … right?

Anyway, here's the LINK: http://www.floridatoday.com/


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