During my post on my decision to go indie, I mentioned that I had also decided to create a publishing company, Red Bucket Publishing. I’m going to discuss this decision and some of the hoops I’ve found while working on this the past few days. First off, I’m in Ontario, Canada. My initial decision was […]
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Self-publishers have it good in Canada. We can get our ISBNs for free. If you’re unfamiliar, ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number and is a unique number used to identify your book. Most places that you will publish, be it physical or Ebook, will require you to provide an ISBN for your work. As
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So I’ve given it a great deal of thought, and I’m finally ready to say for certain that I am going to self-publish. Almost every indie writer has a blog post where they justify their decision to skip the traditional publishing model. I suppose this my post. But instead of belaboring the point, I’ll sum
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I’ve seen the odd snarky comment on Twitter about this, so I thought I’d weigh in. Should Authors that choose the route of self-publication refer to themselves as “Indie Authors or Writers?” Seems a number of people are bothered by this. Their argument seems to rely on the fact that it is the small press
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It’s funny how much changes in the matter of a year. This time last year, the Apple iPad had yet to be released. We all wondered just how revolutionary a product it would be. Initially, people seemed underwhelmed. But if you followed bookish type people on Twitter, you started to see an increasing ripple of
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Today sees the release of the iPad in the United States. For those of us in Canada and many other parts of the world, we still need to wait a couple of weeks before we see this shiny new device. Naturally, everyone is waiting to see just what success the iPad will be. With the
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