Category: Publishing
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Promises, Preferences, and Practicalities (an Excerpt & a Giveaway)
New Release Excerpt and a Giveaway!
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Royalties and The Weight of Paper – Jane Austen’s Relationship with her London Publishers
Jane Austen, a renowned novelist, faced financial struggles due to early 19th-century publishing practices and gender biases. Despite limited success, her works like Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice critiqued societal norms and paved the way for future generations of female authors.
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EBBD Chapters IV and V
Well, I am about two thirds of the way through Elizabeth Bennet’s Bad Days. This will be the last post for this book, but only for a little while. First of all, I am making some changes after Chapter V that may involve shifting chapters. So I will stop here until I finish the entire…
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How Much Did Jane Austen Earn From Her Books?
Publishing options in Austen’s day and how much she earned on her books
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It’s a Steal!!! However – in other news – the BBC has aced MISS AUSTEN (the TV series)!!!!
#MissAusten #JaneAusten #PrideAndPerjury #JAFF #HistoricalFiction Everyone here will know, by now, about Meta’s immoral and illegal “scraping” of well over SEVEN MILLION books, in order to train generative language AI – without compensating a single author, out of the seven million of us concerned (of whom I’m one.) However, it still came as a shock…
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Publishing Paths Amid an Ever Shifting Landscape
For years, the message has been clear—if you write Jane Austen-inspired fiction, Kindle Unlimited is where the readers are. Many JAFF authors have found a strong (and lucrative) audience there. The appeal is obvious: visibility, ranking boosts, and steady page reads from readers who devour stories faster than they are written. Still, questions about going…
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Working on EBBD Again
About two years ago I started EBBD (Elizabeth Bennet’s Bad Days) but never got it finished. Health issues have interrupted it numerous times. However, the latest, bronchitis, gave me an opportunity to add some additional scenes, and I am planning to finish and publish by this summer. Chapter I A Fit of Temper Jane Bennet…
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How NOT to run an audiobook crowdfunding campaign
Sooooooo, this was going to be about my Kickstarter attempt. But – before you buzz off, possibly permanently – relax. It won’t be!!! No appeal will be made to your wallets. You might even learn something from all my mistakes!!! Sooooooo, I got the idea for a Kickstarter this time last year, while attending the…
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Anatomy of a Book Cover Revisited
When I first started writing, my former publisher encouraged me to work on a series. So, I started writing what would become The Darcy and Elizabeth Series that consisted of the following: Attending a Ball The Women of Longbourn Darcy and Bingley Darcy Chooses Part 1 Darcy Chooses Part 2 Elizabeth’s Choice The first three…
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Publishing and Marketing Scams
Nothing is more gullible than a new, self-published author. Has to be, because all any author has to do is to put a single notification on some historical fiction Facebook group site to suddenly sprout an army of supposedly new fans: Let’s choose HARRIET, which is, as it happens, free today and for a couple…