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Smashwords Self-Published Bestseller List, November 2013
"Chasing Imperfection," the second romance in Pamela Ann's Chasing series, grabbed the #1 spot on this month's list of the top-selling titles on the Smashwords platform.
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PW Select December 2013: All Our Coverage
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PW Select December 2013: New Titles from Self-Publishers
Booksellers, publishers, and agents are encouraged to take a look at the following listings of self-published books from authors either waiting to be discovered or with a track record and a following who are doing it on their own.
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Open and Shut: Maya Cross
Among self-published authors’ major advantages over published big-names is often a more personal connection with readers.
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PW Select December 2013: A Fool for Beauty: PW Talks with Ron Galella
On October 7, 1971, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was walking along 90th Street on New York’s Upper East Side when a taxi driver who recognized her honked his horn.
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PW Select: Why All Self-Publishers Need a Good Editor
Just get it down on paper, and then we will see what to do with it,” said Maxwell Perkins, the revered editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. If this sage piece of advice worked for them, it can work for you.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestseller List, October 2013
Melody Grace's romances Unbroken and Unafraid grabbed the #1 and #2 spots respectively on this month's list of the top-selling titles on the Smashwords platform.
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Indie Success Story: Maya Cross's Intimate Connection with Readers
Self-published author Maya Cross successfully navigated blogs and reviewers to gain her fan base.
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Off the Leash: PW Talks to Daniel Donatelli
In November, Daniel Donatelli self-published The Great Anti-American Novel via H.H.B. Publishing. PW caught up with Donatelli to chat about everything from self-publishing and corporate prisons to marketing and individual liberty
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Self-Publishing Singularity: PW Talks to Sergio De La Pava
In 2008, Sergio De La Pava self-published his first novel, A Naked Singularity. Since then, the book was picked up for publication by the University of Chicago Press and this year was given the Robert W. Bingham Prize given by the PEN Literary Awards.
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DIY: How to Make Book Giveaways Pay Off
One of the most surprising pieces of advice that self-published authors get these days is that to sell books, they should start by giving away books.
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Anatomy of a Book: What Indie Authors Need to Know
The first book with consecutive, printed page numbers appeared in 1499, but this practice didn’t catch on at first. It took another 100 years or so before page numbers, indexes and tables of contents began to appear in most printed books. Nowadays we have well-established traditions about what the form and the order of the content of a book should be.
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Grace Takes #1, #2 in October
The first book in Melody Grace’s Beachwood Bay series, Unbroken, was, once again, the top title on the list of bestselling books published on the Smashwords platform.
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Kobo, 'PW Select' Partner for Self-Pubbed Authors
Kobo's self-publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life, is launching an affiliate program for self-published authors with PW Select, a monthly digital newsletter and print supplement to Publishers Weekly magazine focusing on independently published books.
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A Fool for Beauty: 'PW Select' Talks to Ron Galella
Galella’s second self-published book, Jackie: My Obsession, is a visual journey of his tenure as Onassis’s nemesis and unofficial photographer. PW Select caught up with Galella to chat about everything from the Kennedy clan and Sean Penn to sucker punches and court battles.
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PW Select November 2013: All Our Coverage
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PW Select November 2013: Keeping Faith with Authors
Successful self-publishing might be fairly new, but one company can trace its roots back more than 200 years.
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PW Select November 2013: Grace and Redemption - PW Talks to William Sirls
He’s living the dream of every self-published author.
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PW Select November 2013: Christian Retail Adapts to Self-Published Books
A year after celebrating the release of her first novel, Amanda Barber, a private music teacher, observes, “It’s easier than ever to get published, but it’s not easy to be successful. Publishing is a piece of cake, but to actually sell books—that’s the hard part.”
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PW Select November 2013: What Every Self-Publisher Needs to Know
Probably, the best advice I’ve ever come across from a writer on writing is Elmore Leonard’s suggestion, “If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.”
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