In today’s Journal
* Quotes of the Day
* More on IP and Going to Print (Paper)
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quotes of the Day
“We need to be aware that there is no frontlist or backlist anymore. There’s just the work.” Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in “IP Is The New Frontlist (Part Two)”
“If new-to-you is the model, then most indie writers are going about promotion all wrong. Instead of always focusing on the real new product, writers need to focus on the project that makes the most sense to promote.” Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“We’re writers. We produce IP. IP has a lot of uses. One of them is appealing to readers who are new to us. We can do that, if we see what we do as an entire piece….” Kristine Kathryn Rusch
More on IP and Going to Print (Paper)
Well, for the second day in a row I’m pushing a pair of particular posts.
First, see Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “IP Is The New Frontlist (Part Two)” at https://kriswrites.com/2021/10/27/business-musings-ip-is-the-new-frontlist-part-two/.
Yes, I’m referencing KKR. In this particular Business Musing, she actually keeps her political and social idealogy to herself. So if you believe differently than she does, you may read the article without feeling that you’re being harrangued.
I highly recommend doing what she suggests in the article, whether you have 10 pieces of IP or 1000 or more. You might even want to print-out or bookmark the article and save it in a file somewhere so you can refer back to it later.
The Passive Guy also posted the short article, “Reactions to Ingram Spark Post” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/reactions-to-ingram-spark-post/. This will be a slightly convoluted journey, so please bear with me.
Reading that post caused me to revisit the referenced post on Ingram Spark from yesterday’s Journal and read the comments. (I recommend reading at least the first comment yourself at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/every-publishing-strategy-should-start-with-amazon-and-ingram/#comment).
The commenter uses Ingram Spark sometimes and Snowfall Press at other times. Reading that led to me visit the website of Snowfall Press, which the commenter used as an alternative to Ingram Spark. Might be worth checking out if you are one who takes your books to paper.
Of course, don’t be afraid to investigate and use other POD presses too if they seem to suit your needs. And if you let me know the name and URL of the press you use, I’ll give them a little extra mileage here in the Journal. The only requirement is that the press actually distributes to more than one entity (e.g., so Amazon KDP doesn’t qualify).
Talk with you again later.
Of Interest
See “Halloween Is All About Fear. Turns Out, so Is Publishing” at https://www.thepassivevoice.com/halloween-is-all-about-fear-turns-out-so-is-publishing/. Duh. It isn’t a fear of publishing. It’s a fear of not being deemed good enough, either by someone else (traditional publisher) or by yourself or readers (indie publisher). It’s a fear instilled directly by people who don’t write fiction, and it’s an unreasoning fear. Get over it.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………………… 490 words
Writing of WCGN 5: Tentative Title (novel)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX
Total fiction words for October……… XXXX
Total fiction words for the year………… 623282
Total nonfiction words for October… 11830
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 177790
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 801072
Calendar Year 2021 Novels to Date…………………… 13
Calendar Year 2021 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2021 Short Stories to Date… 3
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 66
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 217
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31
Disclaimer: In this blog, I provide advice on writing fiction. I advocate a technique called Writing Into the Dark. To be crystal clear, WITD is not “the only way” to write, nor will I ever say it is. However, as I am the only writer who advocates WITD both publicly and regularly, I will continue to do so, among myriad other topics.