The question of e-books, publishers, traditional and self publishing are all out for writers of today. The options today's writer has can be overwhelming but we broke it down in a 5 PM panel at DragonCON that had little foul language so it's a little more PC....
Kiernan Kelly moderated. Stephanie Burke, Scott Sigler, Marianne Lacroix and I were the panelists. Again, a collective history of over 50+ years of writing experience in a field that's fairly new despite the rich history in publishing.
Click here to listen to the audio
We covered a myriad of topics including briefly touching on contract issues, pen names, what to do if you do something stupid online, how to preserve your reputation, how to protect your identity the best you can and more. Ranging in background from authors at small to indie e-pubs to those published with some of the larger houses, we invite you to listen to the audio with the hope that we've helped you navigate the choices in publishing available to authors today.
I'd like to give a special thanks to Scott (not the panelist!) for recording the panels and posting the audio online. He did an
excellent job.Kiernan Kelly kept us on track and all the panelists did a fine job of speaking to yet again, a packed room.
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My speaker is not good now, it's not working well and need to be fix. But I'll promise to listen to the audio and just like you, I'm also hoping it will help navigate the choices in publishing available to authors today. Mia Loveless
ReplyDeleteIt is my goal to one day go to DragonCon, if for anything, to see panels like this live.
ReplyDelete...is it good to go if you don't have a published book?
ReplyDeleteNice opinions on with, which for publishing--seeing more of how to protect identity and rep. would be good ^**^
Thanks for another clever post, Sascha! You know....I almost wish it had video :o)
ReplyDeleteIf the con doesn't object, recording panels is such a good idea! Video of course would have been nice but what a spellbinding conversation. Is this panel you are a part of , do other cons? Or was it happenstance? Do you send out topiclists?
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