Blaise Lucey
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If There Are No Bookstores, What Can Publishers Do For Authors?
Book sales are hard to figure out. On the one hand, we’ve seen a slow dip in sales for the past few years. On the other hand, independent bookstores reported a 10% spike in sales for the last holiday season. Then again, one study found that 85% of children readers aged 2-13 are using tablets…
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The Future of eBooks: Werewolf Love Stories, 3 for a Dollar
Sometimes, I like to do market research about eBooks by acting like someone looking for deals. I did that the other day and the first challenge, as usual, was finding out where I could actually find eBooks on Amazon. They don’t make it as easy as it should be… but I don’t think Amazon is that…
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Publishers Are Testing Unknown Authors Digitally… What Does That Mean?
A lot of writers view self-publishing eBooks as a slog to the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not that we necessarily want to market all of our stuff and pump out eight books a year to make a living. It’s just what has to happen if publishers keep setting their sights on blockbusters. Well,…
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6 Ways to Promote Your Band Online
When it comes to promoting creative stuff online, I think bands might have a bigger problem than anyone, even authors. Now that bands can upload music to a Bandcamp page in about five minutes, they can give their stuff away. You know, the music they made. For free. To no one. They can also charge…
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How Amazon is Trying to Rescue Literary Fiction
Who’s going to save literary fiction? Prominent agents have said that big publishers these days are just focused on pushing out blockbuster titles. You know, things that will sell millions. That leaves self-proclaimed “literary authors” that write “literary fiction” biting their nails. But never fear, literary authors… Amazon is here. That’s right – the online…
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A Fictional Serial Killer Starts a Blog… Then What?
I forget what I was Googling, but I found a very unique press release that caught my eye: “Serial Killer Starts Blog Ahead of 2MCH4YA Book Completion.” Yes, a serial killer featured in the upcoming novel, “taRNished,” now has a blog. The blog is an example of what I’ve been thinking about a lot when it comes to…
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How E.L. James Promoted Fifty Shades of Grey
When it comes to promoting your self-published work, there’s no author that comes to mind as quickly as E.L. James, the woman who wrote Fifty Shades of Grey. There’s no doubt that this is a self-publishing miracle. Anything that sells paperback copies faster than the Harry Potter series has done something right. Here’s how James…
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A Video Game or an eBook?
You may have heard the term “enhanced” eBook lately. Maybe you’ve heard… from people like me, even… that eBooks are going to have to include more multimedia as people ditch eReaders and go for tablets. Well, the picture to the left is evidence of that effort: pulling in more stuff to immerse the reader in…
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eBooks, Blogs, and Redefining What It Means to Be an Author
I’m accustomed to reading grim things about the future of books. That’s what a lot of this blog is about: how writers can just keep it all going in this day and age. Now, I’m a hardened veteran of indulgent speculation concernign the demise of eBooks and literary novels and making a living by making art. But this piece, “The…
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