In common, I suspect, with many authors, I write at least partly in the hope that at least a few other people will read my stuff. So I was a little dismayed to discover that the overwhelming majority of my “readers” on Scribd appear not to have been people at all, but robots.
Until recently, Scribd was showing my total “reads” as being about 1.4K. I was somewhat sceptical of this (see this post) and thought the true figure was probably in the low three figures – but felt that even ... Continue reading ...
UPDATE 8.2014: I have now discovered that Scribd's "read" stats are even less reliable than suggested here and the figures quoted below significantly overstate the number of "readers" - so ignore this post and take a look at this one.
I have tended to focus my attention on Smashwords and Feedbooks as publishing platforms - since other sites I have tried, like BookieJar and especially Wattpad (click here for my curmudgeonly musings on the latter), don't seem to have generated very many downloa... Continue reading ...
Just published a short story, “The Hardest Word” on
smashwords.com. Very impressed
with how straightforward the whole process was – you just need to be prepared
to put in some time formatting the book correctly in MS Word (the smashwords
guidelines explain what you need to do and are extremely clear). This was a dry run for making my novel
available as an ebook, also via smashwords (the key advantage being that it
makes the book available in almost all major ebook formats). If you... Continue reading ...
Welcome to my blog, "Publishing Waste" which will either (a) chronicle my heroic efforts to self-publish my own fiction; or (b) demonstrate beyond a scintilla of doubt the utter futility of (a). And along the way, I will also be doing some reviews of other people's books and occasionally blogging about other stuff.
