This has been such a happy but also such a busy week. I was going to just ramble about life, but I actually have some small updates for you. For those of you who missed it, the Frinndays are returning after the holidays. Audio and things Some people accused Mod R of withholding important information
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Need a Graphic Artist
I have a budget of $1,000. I need some designs for the merchandise store to be printed on T-shirts, mugs, etc. Mostly quotes with Canva and Adobe stock graphics. Stuff like Ripper Cushions. Save me from myself. Familiarity with Canva and Photoshop Ability to put fonts together that do not look like I (3-year old
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Publishing Partners, Ebooks, DOJ Hearings, and All That Jazz
Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster are trying to merge. The government is blocking it due to concerns of the new enormous publisher monopolizing the marketplace. We’ve received several questions about the particulars of the testimony, but the ones about this quote stand out: Is this a lie? Yes and no. Yes, a publisher
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Covers and Genre
A while ago we’ve done a Genre by Cover Quiz, where we showed you covers and had you guess the genre. I was looking on Amazon for unrelated reasons, trying to find something for Mod R, and stumbled on this. To be clear: THIS IS NOT A BOOK RECOMMENDATION. I have not read any of
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Self-publishing, HEB, and Rrrrromance
Mod R left me with a list of questions. But first, a funny. I was looking at a house for sale on Redfin the other day and saw this. How can you tell that a Texan is selling their house? Hehehehe. I tell you what, I missed HEB in Florida. The first time we went
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On Follow Up Questions, Unexpected Nature Of
“We both want to work at our own pace and take our time. We don’t want the stress of not meeting a deadline. If we don’t meet one, nobody has to know. When things are ready to be published, they will be up on the Release Schedule. We will announce them on the blog and
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On Being Difficult
When you start out in traditional publishing, you are very eager. You’ve heard rumors about this other Big Name Author who is “difficult” and is “a bitch” and you don’t want to be difficult. Then you gain experience and realize that bringing a story from the manuscript to the book isn’t the smooth road you
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The Problem of Publishing
Didn’t get a lot of sleep last night, so let’s hope I will make sense. Can you explain how the publishing industry has changed in the past two years? I keep hearing about problems and issues and I don’t understand what’s going on (except the obvious toll on authors, but that doesn’t seem to be
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Earning Out and Other Questions
Mod R has sent over November blog prompts. We will be starting with some industry questions. Why do they pay celebrities these giant book advances? They can’t earn out. You don’t have to earn out to be profitable for the publisher. We’ve covered this before, but a quick refresher, so you don’t have to flip
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That Sonovabitch at Piggly Wiggly
We’ve received several questions regarding translations and whether or not we feel they accurately present our work. I don’t know. We’ve been translated to… 18? I think it’s more now – countries and obviously we do not speak the languages of all 18 countries. We are not the best judges of the quality of translation.
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NFT Me, Baby
Have you thought of offering NFTs of your work? This question keeps coming up for some reason. To understand what NFT is, you have to first learn about etherium and blockchains. Etherium is a cryptocurrency, like bitcoin. You know how you go to an arcade and you buy tokens? Same principle, but digital. To really
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