Tag: self-publishing
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War for Your Mind: Information in 2016
Today’s Guest Post comes from Cassie Phillips of Culture Coverage: There’s a war for your mind. While this statement can be cast aside as hyperbolic fearmongering, there is no denial that media, art, words and publishing have had a massive impact in molding our social mindset throughout history. From the playwrights of ancient Greece to our modern…
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Regular Writing Assignments — The Dark and The Light
Chapter eight in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Once the rejections slow down and you’ve found a bit of success (or, possibly,…
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Art Business Logic Sold Me on Self-Publishing :: Intro and Chapters
or Book and Art Business 101: How the Good Business Sense of Self-Publishing Finally Won Me Over I am not one to easily say I was wrong, but, my friends, I was terribly, horribly wrong. Wrong for the past ten years or more concerning a very important part of the publishing industry and art business.…
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Your First 1000 Copies
Several of you have asked what I think about self-publishing and whether I would recommend any resources for selling your first 1000 copies. I have strong opinions concerning self-publishing that I’ll withhold for now and defer instead to some outside resources like Tim Grahl’s book. Your First 1000 Copies sounds like an audacious title. But…
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040: Why We Will Never Make Artificial Intelligence
Watch me work: I’m going to make a statue from created things. See there? Made it. I’m going to make three statues out of clay marble steel. See there? Made it. I’m going to make a statue of an older me making three statues of clay marble steel. See there? Made it. I’m going to…
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036: Making Noise or “The Self-Replicating Nanobot that Consumes Everything While Replicating itself, Leaving the Entire World in an Amorphous Blob of Grey-Goo”
I am going to write 1,000 words. Ready? This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is…