Indie Publishing8 takes by Melissa Yuan-Innes

Be prepared

New school Old school

I decided to join the indie publishing

revolution Instead of waiting for

someone to ask me to the prom I

decided to take myself to the prom

mdashMelissa Yuan-Innes

Self-publishing is like passing a

hooker off as your prom date

mdashKboards

Speed

What in hell are you doing

here Go home and glue your

butts to a chair and write and

write until your heads fall offmdashTough guy quoted by Kurt Vonnegut Jr in Writers on Writing

Covers

Color is the place where our

brain and the universe meet

mdashPaul Ceacutezanne

e-books

Lovers of print are simply

confusing the plate for the food

mdashDouglas Adams

DiscoverabilityYou think yoursquore competing with 35 million

or billion books Donrsquot be silly Yoursquore

competing with all those books plus a

bazillion websites and games and Angry Birds

and videos of cats riding Roombas

In that paradigm the audience is using search tools and word-of-mouth

to find you For the first time they can find exactly what they want You market by

providing exactly what a smaller audience wants instead of

forcing a larger group to accept a lowest common

denominatormdashCamille Leguire

e-books

Lovers of print are simply

confusing the plate for the food

mdashDouglas Adams

DiscoverabilityYou think yoursquore competing with 35 million

or billion books Donrsquot be silly Yoursquore

competing with all those books plus a

bazillion websites and games and Angry Birds

and videos of cats riding Roombas

In that paradigm the audience is using search tools and word-of-mouth

to find you For the first time they can find exactly what they want You market by

providing exactly what a smaller audience wants instead of

forcing a larger group to accept a lowest common

denominatormdashCamille Leguire

DiscoverabilityYou think yoursquore competing with 35 million

or billion books Donrsquot be silly Yoursquore

competing with all those books plus a

bazillion websites and games and Angry Birds

and videos of cats riding Roombas

In that paradigm the audience is using search tools and word-of-mouth

to find you For the first time they can find exactly what they want You market by

providing exactly what a smaller audience wants instead of

forcing a larger group to accept a lowest common

denominatormdashCamille Leguire

Free

[T]he truth is that zero is one market and any

other price is another In many cases thats the

difference between a great market and none at

allmdashChris Anderson

Rats with Islands

[T]he successful writers have the perception that theyrsquore in control that if they

keep going somebody will finally see the greatness of their stories In short

successful writers are rats with islands They canrsquot see

the island they have no logical reason for thinking therersquos an island but as God is

their witness they know therersquos one somewhere and theyrsquore going to keep swimming

until they find it

mdashJennifer Crusie

Freedom

Something opens our wings Something

makes boredom and hurt disappear

Someone fills the cup in front of us

We taste only sacredness

mdashRumi

Slides by Melissa Yuan-Innes