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PW Select April 2013: uPublishU Targets Authors and Entrepreneurs
Authors attending this year’s uPublishU, the self-publishing section of the BookExpo America tradeshow, should not expect to hear much about how to write a book.
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Q & A with Brent Hartinger
Having just self-published The Elephant of Surprise, the fourth book in his Russel Middlebrook series, Brent Hartinger is at the forefront of trends in self-publishing and gayYA fiction.
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London Book Fair 2013: Self-Publishing Surges in Digital Zone
From its beginnings in 2009 as a sleepy corridor of Earls Court, the London Book Fair’s Digital Zone is quickly becoming the pounding heartbeat of the fair, driven largely by the rise of self-publishing.
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Q & A with Beth Reekles
The 17-year-old's self-published novel, The Kissing Booth, garnered millions of reads online – and landed the author a contract with Random House.
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Random House Acquires Novel by Teen Wattpad Star
Delacorte Press will publish e-book and print editions of The Kissing Booth, a debut book by Beth Reekles, a 17-year-old from Wales. The novel first appeared to high acclaim on Wattpad.
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Christian Self-Publishers Finally Get Some Respect
These days, Christian self-publishing has moved from the Rodney Dangerfield era to the Aretha Franklin age.
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PW Select February 2013: All Our Coverage
The latest PW Select supplement, including all the latest self-publishing news, listings of 142 titles, and reviews of 35 books.
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PW Select February 2013: Indie Rock’s Lessons for Publishing
When Todd Colberg set out to publish his first book, a collection of true stories from his days touring with Chapel Hill, N.C.–based garage-punk band the Spinns, he didn’t even consider shopping it around to agents or publishers.
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PW Select February 2013: Guy’s Way
For most authors and agents, a book deal in the mid-six-figure range would be an unqualified win.
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PW Select February 2013: Making History: A Talk with Elton B. Klibanoff
Upon leaving full-time legal work, Elton B. Klibanoff returned to his passion, history, and wrote the book he had long envisioned—For the Survival of Liberty: Great Presidential Decisions, which he self-published through Dog Ear Publishing in November of last year.
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New Titles from Self-Publishers
This issue of PW Select marks the first in our now bimonthly frequency—that is, six times a year, rather than quarterly—allowing us to keep up with the growing swell of self-publishing that is transforming the industry.
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PW Select December 2012: All Our Coverage
The latest news on self-publishing, plus 40 new book reviews.
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PW Select December 2012: The Reviews
This month's installment of PW Select self-published print and e-books.
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PW Select December 2012: Wattpad Revolutionizes Online Storytelling
“We want to spread the written word to billions of people. That’s our mission,” says Allen Lau. He’s a serial entrepreneur and the cofounder of Wattpad, the Toronto-based free online community for writers.
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PW Select December 2012: A Record Number of Titles, Led by Juvenile Fiction
This is the last of our quarterly supplements. Beginning in February, PW Select will be published six times a year, reflecting the continued boom in self-publishing.
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PW Select December 2012: On Readers’ Radar
Self-published authors may not have the publicity and distribution apparatus of a major publishing house, but as social media has evolved they are finding more ways than ever to garner new readers.
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PW Select December 2012: DIY from Down Under: PW Talks with Walter Renfrey
Australian author Walter Renfrey self-published his first YA novel, Five Nights to the Crimson Moon, through CreateSpace in November.
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PW Select December 2012: Miami Advice
The Miami Books Fair is one of the nation’s marquee literary events, a bustling weeklong consumer fair held every November for the past 29 years, featuring hundreds of authors and events, as well as exhibits from publishers and booksellers.
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Self-Published Title Wins Mississippi Author Award
Stokes McMillan's self-published book, One Night of Madness, was named winner of the 2012 Mississippi Author Award.