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Jim and Bryan talk about Bryan’s recent success with selling books on Kobo. Their news of the week also has some good tidbits.
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We asked some of the brightest stars in the self-publishing firmament if indie authors can still make money by giving away books. This article is a few months old but still has some good information for authors.
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I started writing when I was around age 7. I’d read just about everything Enid Blyton had written (the Famous Five series being a favorite) and I started to write my own adventure story for kids. It was supposed to be a full length novel, but I think I got to around chapter 3….I started another novel at age 8, which was, bizarrely, about a canoeing expedition in Canada. This was a topic I later went on to write a book about as an adult, following my own canoe expedition in Canada. The book was a travel memoir published by HarperCollins, called ‘Lost Lands, Forgotten Stories’
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In my early twenties, I turned to those big, landmark books: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, D H Lawrence’s Women in Love, Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago. My reading became increasingly eclectic as I discovered Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, later Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami. But over the past few years I’ve rediscovered the child in me that loves a mystery. I’ve read all the books by Nicci French. All Patrick McGrath’s. Stieg Larson’s trilogy, and Jo Nesbo’s series featuring Harry Hole. Recently, all three books by Gillian Flynn, and lots of psychological thrillers such as Samantha Hayes’ Until You’re Mine. I’m also a lover of ‘film noir’.
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