Posted on June 28, 2009 by cliffball
First Place
The Author with the most votes will have his or her book placed on the Barnes and Noble.com Best-Seller list, a package worth $12,000.
Second Place
The Author with the second most votes will have his or her book appear in 40 book fairs in the Salt Lake City, Utah market, a package worth $2,000.
Third [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by cliffball
I just thought I would take the time to post my experience with self-publishing so far. Since I published through Iuniverse.com, they post sales 2 months after the fact, so I just recently found out I only sold 7 of my novellas in February, making all of $2.34 in royalties. I guess I shouldn’t go [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by cliffball
Since having my novella published, I’ve discovered just how hard it is to get noticed by readers. There are so many science fiction authors out there and just authors in general that the market is probably saturated with un-read books. I’ve done the whole online marketing thing, since that is where everybody seems to be [...]
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