Despite some logistic challenges, we had a great day with Steven Spatz, President of BookBaby on March 12th. He was stuck in Philadelphia with a badly sprained ankle, and he still delivered some great content on self-publishing via a microphone in … [Read more...]
All Things Amazon Slides
This Saturday's program (All Things Amazon: How to Manage Your Most Important Publishing Relationship, led by BAIPA board members and indie publishing veterans David Kudler and Ruth Schwartz) was a great success! As promised, here are the slides: … [Read more...]
Special message and prize! from our June speaker
Hi. I’m Judith Briles, aka The Book Shepherd, and I’m looking forward to meeting all of you on Saturday, June 14. I’ll be bringing more to BAIPA than introducing the Author and Book GamePlan, How to Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Publishing, the … [Read more...]
Article, Video: Traditional vs Independent Book Publishing
Lee Foster, well-known travel writer and longtime BAIPA member, has been carefully following the issue of “Traditional versus Independent Book Publishing.” He is a practitioner as well as an observer of the trends. Lee has, in fact, given … [Read more...]
An Author's Enigma – the trauma of publishing a novel – Part 1
[This is the first of four excerpts from Jonathan R. Husband's essay about his publishing experiences as a first-time indie author, written for the benefit of other BAIPA authors. In BAIPA, he is known as John Cammidge. -- BAIPA blog editor, Linda … [Read more...]
From Pen To Published – Redwood Writers Conference
Redwood Writers invites you to journey “From Pen to Published!” at all-day event, Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the Bertolini Student Center of Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa 8:00 am – 5:30 pm. Morning Keynote … [Read more...]
Fascinating article and interesting data about our industry
Just saw this in the pod_publishers Yahoo group and felt it was important to share with all of you. Please read it through and post your comments. Also, feel free to share elsewhere. http://authorearnings.com/the-report/ … [Read more...]
Lee Foster – July BAIPA Speaker – Traditional vs. Indie Publishing
Dear Baipa Members,This is Lee Foster, and I will be talking with you at the July program about “Traditional vs. Independent Publishing.” One possible part of the strategy for jndependent publishing, from my perspective, is that you might want to … [Read more...]