* If the quality is not there, then the customer will find a product that does have the quality. There is too much quality out there for them to put up with it.In the typical business world quality means making your product out of quality materials that still allow you to make a profit. To having additional eyes on the production line to make sure ( Read more... )

* If you don't know what the customer wants, then you aren't going to find a customer base for your product.For a business to function and survive, it must sell product. That means it all comes down to the customer. Who is the customer? What are their details? What do they like? How much are they willing to pay? The questions are endless ( Read more... )

Publishers Weekly has revealed Amazon's plans to separate the free Kindle books into their own list. There is no date yet set for the change other than it will happen in "a few weeks ( Read more... )

I want to share my writing. But, I also want to be able to make a living, or at least a partial living, while doing it.

That dream has two parts:

Share the storytelling.

AND

Paid to continue producing.Sharing would be easy. Create a web site and start posting, while also posting it on various archives around the internet for original fiction. ( Read more... )

I had a big long post to start this off, and then I realized it was a rant about the traditional publishing industry. And that wasn't supposed to be the point of it ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like there was a problem with the plug-in and now Livejournal has banned the IP for about 2 months. Which means no cross-posting. What a pain in the neck.

In case anyone was wondering, no, I have not disappeared. In fact, I've been very very busy. I started a new blog series called "The E-Book Experiment". Just so it gets caught up ( Read more... )

New words are not all there is to writing. A finished first draft is only a first (big) step. And it's the stuff that comes after and before a first draft that has been occupying my time ( Read more... )

Ive been writing ever since I could string letters together to form words, and its never stopped since. However, the big goal of some day making a living off my fiction writing has remained elusive ( Read more... )

Over at Forward Motion Writers, Zette, the owner of the site, is offering a class called Two Year Novel (2YN). This is a class that takes place over two years that go from the first germ of an idea all the way through the planning to the writing of the first draft, into revision, and then to the point of submitting ( Read more... )

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