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Self-Publishing Series: I. Making the Decision
Self-publishing is becoming an ever more viable option for authors, given the erosion of commercial publishing, economic print-on-demand technologies, and the marketing power of Amazon and other online...
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Self-Publishing Series: II. Preparing Yourself to Self-Publish
(Part II of a five-part series) Unless you’re willing to do an enormous amount of homework and preparation to learn the process and business of self-publishing, you’ll waste your time and money....
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Self-Publishing Series: III. Choosing How to Self-Publish
(Part III of a five-part series) Once you’ve done your homework and committed to self-publish, you’ll next want to decide the level of investment in time and money you’re willing to make. Your...
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Self-Publishing Series: IV. Operating the Publishing Machinery
(Part IV of a five-part series) The next major step in your self-publishing adventure is to master the machinery by which a finished manuscript becomes an officially published book. Successfully taking...
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Self-Publishing Series: V. Key Steps to Marketing Your Book
(Last of a five-part series) Marketing your book effectively will be every bit as challenging as writing it, and you should plan on spending a comparable amount of energy and effort. For one thing, you...
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“Wormholes” Author is a Liar and Thief. . . But Says It’s O.K.
As the author of the new sci-fi adventure novel Wormholes, I’m a liar and a thief. I’ll explain why, and the reasons I think it’s O.K. Some background: The idea for the novel had its beginning years...
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New Novel “Solomon’s Freedom” Dramatizes Chimp Rights Controversy
Should the life of a chimpanzee — particularly one taught to use language — be sacrificed to save a man’s life? That’s the provocative moral question posed by the new novel Solomon’s Freedom by Dennis...
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New Sci-Fi Novel Asks “What if There Was a Blue Cat?”
What if there was a blue cat? That oddball question first popped into my head some thirty years ago, while I was the news office director at Caltech. The result, decades later, is my newly published...
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Should an author rewrite a published novel? I did.
While non-fiction authors routinely produce new editions of their books, novelists don’t, with only rare exceptions. For example, after Random House bought Andy Weir’s self-published novel The Martian,...
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