Christine Rose

Category: Writing & Reviews

  • Amazon Joins Big Publishing

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    Big news in New York Big Boy (NYBB) publishing. Whereas up until recently they’ve been known as the “Big 6,” they are now the “Big 7.” Amazon joins the traditional publishing world in a big way, with new imprints and an aggressive move to acquire new and established, best-selling authors. They are the new player…

  • New York Big Boys (Podcast)

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    Listen to the realities of going with a New York Big Boy publisher for your book, both the pros and cons. Learn how to get a New York Publisher and how long it is likely to take. Understand royalties and advances, and see how the industry is changing. Publishing & Marketing Realities: Episode 2, New…

  • Managing Social Networks (& Still Have Time to Write)

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    Social networking is a huge time-suck, or at least it can be until you learn how to manage it. Perhaps I’m not the best person to write about this, as the allure of Twitter and Facebook is far too tempting. Many of you who follow me under @christinerose or @omgrey know just how prolific my…

  • Questionable eBook Royalties

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    And the fun keeps on coming. Thanks to Scott White, husband and manager of author Skyler White, who linked me to this post by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, I have something very important to discuss today. As I mention in my book, New York publishers are working on a century-old business model, and it’s starting to…

  • Publishing & Marketing Realities, the Podcast

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    This is the first podcast in a series named after my book Publishing & Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author. In this weekly podcast, I’ll be focusing on publishing choices and marketing realities in the current state of the industry and marketplace. We’ll be talking with other emerging authors and exploring some options for those…

  • Choosing a Publishing Path

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    There are more publishing choices available to authors now than ever before. NY. Traditional. eBook. CreateSpace. POD. Self-Publish. Vanity. Etc. This is both wonderful and rather overwhelming. For me, when there are too many choices, I have a harder time making a decision. Perhaps that’s because I have a higher chance of making the wrong…

  • #Hashtags on Twitter

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    Twitter is a strange bird, indeed. If you’re new to Twitter and you don’t understand what you’re seeing, it can be rather intimidating, but used correctly, Twitter is a powerful marketing and community building tool. I dedicate a rather large section of my book Publishing & Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author to Twitter because…

  • Piracy Results

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    Over the past 6 weeks, I’ve been conducting an experiment, both here with Rowan of the Wood & a little more secretly with Publishing & Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author and over on O. M. Grey’s blog with Avalon Revisited. And as promised, today I’m posting the results of that experiment. The results are…

  • Amazon is an Author’s Best Friend

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    Hands down. I get a check from Amazon every month. In fact, I get three: one from Kindle sales, one from Seller Central (which I use to sell my old documentaries), and one from Amazon Associate. Granted, I’m not paying my mortgage with those checks. Yet. But often it is enough to cover one of…

  • 4 Steps to Twitter Success

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    Twitter can be a pain in the ass. No doubt. There is so much information whizzing by every second, how can one keep up? Why would anyone want to keep up? I’ve had authors tell me they have no interest in reading what someone is eating or where they’re going. That, especially mixed with so…