INDIE: A Humorous Look at Independent Publishing
by
REMINGTON KANE
ABOUT THIS BOOK…
Although I had been writing since the 1980s and self-publishing since the 1990s, I still gave little thought to ever making my living as a writer. I love writing and everything about it, even the rewriting. The thought of handing over my book to someone else, so that they could slap their cover upon it, and make their changes to it, always left me with no desire to join a huge publishing house.
Not that they would have had me.
Most of my work doesn’t fit into their nice little niches of genres, so I doubt my books would have ever seen print if it were up to them. But it wasn’t, it was up to me, and so I self-published for years without any hope of making more than a few dollars.
And then, the Kindle came along, the e-book revolution took off with incredible speed, and I and thousands of others went along for the ride.
I began making money from the first day and the amount has been increasing over time. Now, I make my living from my writing.
Something many authors did around the same time they published their first e-book was to post their first blog post. I started a blog.
One thing I noticed about most other blogs is that they were all very similar. They talked about their newest book, or writing craft and the publishing business, and after a while, a lot of them just got boring.
I didn’t want to be boring.
And so, week after week I wrote goofy blog post after goofy blog post and gained a scattering of followers. The blog was going well. There was just one thing though, other than the blog, I wasn’t writing.
As much as I loved writing the blog, it was taking way too much time and energy away from my writing, so I basically walked away from it.
However, many of my posts were good, funny, and sometimes even a bit insightful. It occurred to me that they would make an interesting book, so, here we are.
I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Remington Kane
by
REMINGTON KANE
ABOUT THIS BOOK…
Although I had been writing since the 1980s and self-publishing since the 1990s, I still gave little thought to ever making my living as a writer. I love writing and everything about it, even the rewriting. The thought of handing over my book to someone else, so that they could slap their cover upon it, and make their changes to it, always left me with no desire to join a huge publishing house.
Not that they would have had me.
Most of my work doesn’t fit into their nice little niches of genres, so I doubt my books would have ever seen print if it were up to them. But it wasn’t, it was up to me, and so I self-published for years without any hope of making more than a few dollars.
And then, the Kindle came along, the e-book revolution took off with incredible speed, and I and thousands of others went along for the ride.
I began making money from the first day and the amount has been increasing over time. Now, I make my living from my writing.
Something many authors did around the same time they published their first e-book was to post their first blog post. I started a blog.
One thing I noticed about most other blogs is that they were all very similar. They talked about their newest book, or writing craft and the publishing business, and after a while, a lot of them just got boring.
I didn’t want to be boring.
And so, week after week I wrote goofy blog post after goofy blog post and gained a scattering of followers. The blog was going well. There was just one thing though, other than the blog, I wasn’t writing.
As much as I loved writing the blog, it was taking way too much time and energy away from my writing, so I basically walked away from it.
However, many of my posts were good, funny, and sometimes even a bit insightful. It occurred to me that they would make an interesting book, so, here we are.
I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Remington Kane
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