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… I’ve been that busy lately.
I am *knock-on-wood* 300 pages from being completely caught up. I was 100 pages from it, but then I dug out the re-edits for TNBP and while that’s not technically editing, it’s formatting, so it counts. No really, it does.
Fine, be that way. Realistically, in the edits department, I’m about 150 pages from being caught up.
It feels good.
In January, Belfire released The Light Side of Dark, by Voni Ryan. It was really hard to classify this collection by two wonderful ladies (Voni Ryan …
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I’ve been reading some interesting takes on what self-publishing, vanity publishing, and POD publishing really are.
Apparently*:
…starting your own company to self-publish your own work using whichever form of small-run printing and distribution is fine. That’s ‘real’ publishing with a publisher.
…starting your own company to publish others and using POD formats is subsidy publishing.
…using POD and e-book services such as the entity formerly known as BookSurge (aka Createspace), LSI, Lulu, Smashwords and KDP to self-publish or publish others is vanity publishing.
* NOT my opinions.
These are mine:
First of all, said opinionated …
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One of the two spots that I have available for full packages (January to April) is now available at 25% off!
A full package includes: substantive edit to 85k words*, follow-up proof*, format for self-pub or submission, full wrap cover, 2 banner ads and a trailer.
Individually these items would total $620, but I offer the full package at $500, and the spot available is discounted a further 25% for the holiday season. So, a $620 value for $375!
The other package remains at 10% off, a $620 value for $450.
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