I remember, when I was in my teens or early twenties, going with my mother to her secretarial office to help her scan some documents. The scanner was the size of a small car. But it could do two-sided OCR scans. It even had a screen, and when it hit a word that didn’t scan [...]
So, it was clear that the pages of the books, traces of glue lingering, would not feed through. I briefly considered photocopying each page and then scanning it in, but the waste of paper, and the duplication of effort dissuaded me from that lunacy pretty quickly. However… I had found the page proofs of my [...]
So, I’m behind, as usual. I’ve been slowly scanning and editing my five out of print books (otherwise known as the OOPs). The first one, The Fairy Tale Bride, is almost ready for me to upload to Smashwords and Amazon. I envisioned this process being much smoother. On the other hand, I’ve learned a lot [...]
The operations/management section is one of the easiest sections for a writer to fill in on a business plan. [Unless you're James Patterson, who runs more of a writing corporation (he hires other writers to write novels based on his ideas and outlines, and has several editors assigned to him at his publisher). If you [...]
I took a course in business planning last month. Since I live in Maine, and small local businesses abound here, I was in among those who were going to do roofing, massage therapy, dog washing, and a few people who weren’t sure what they were going to do. In short, we were a diverse group [...]
So, after yesterday’s brief mission statement, the Business Description section will be a little more meaty. A typical business plan includes: type of business (product/service/merchandising); status of business (start-up, expansion, date business begins operation); form of business ownership (sole proprietor, partnership or corporation); profit potential (special features, customer benefits, experience and qualities of owner and [...]
So, I’ve been meaning to share a template for a writer’s business plan here, based on what I’ve learned from developing a distinctly non-writing business plan for my new venture. It’s not quite as simple as it sounds (no business plan is as straightforward as we’d like, or so I have discovered). There are a [...]
Digital Book World tweeted this review of You Are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier. It is worth reading, if you are a writer, or if you’re a reader. I know I’ve let my blog get hijacked by this Amazon-Macmillan blowup. I promise this is my last post on the subject for a while. But [...]
Rupert Murdoch says $9.99 for an e-book devalues a book. As do others. [Picture me scratching my head, wondering, "If a paperback can go full price for $6.99 (as my Getting to Third Date goes for on Amazon, though it is discounted to $6.29 at B&N; and the respective e-version is $5.59 at both online [...]
When we last saw Nina, she was staring white-knuckled at a blank ledger sheet, and her best friend was going to show her how to track her expenditures as she begins the start-up phase of her novelist business. “All that red ink is going to make me puke,” Nina finally admitted to her BFF. “That’s [...]
