Mitali’s Fire Escape

Many thanks to author Mitali Perkins for featuring me on her blog!  Mitali wanted to know more about the AmazonEncore program, so I filled her in on some of the details…

If you want to hear another AmazonEncore author’s perspective, stop by Gal Novelty to meet Andrew Xia Fukuda (author of Crossing) AND enter a great giveaway!

And if you need MORE proof that self-publishing is a viable option, read this Publisher’s Weekly article by John Edgar Wideman…

By self-publishing, I hope to liberate myself from two burdensome responsibilities—recouping the enormous, up-front costs of conventional publication and the necessity of earning large profits if I expect major houses to remain interested in my work. I’m seeking rational alternatives to the conventional routine of book promotion, an uninspired ritual that may garner 30 seconds or 30 days (if you’re lucky) of shelf life in mega chain stores, but mocks the aspirations of serious fiction and cultivates no audience for it.