Last year, I asked for a Kindle for Christmas–mainly because Kindle is currently dominating the e-reader market, and I wanted to know what my readers are experiencing when they read a book this way.  It makes me feel slightly guilty, especially after my local independent bookstore, Toadstool Bookshop of Milford, Peterborough and Keene, NH, came [...]

The Novelists, Inc annual conference is coming to a close–alas!– with a great talk by Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, a platform for creating and distributing e-books.  One of the difficulties of traditional publishing he pointed out is the limited distribution rights often controlled under various contracts, leading, as he points out, to frustrations like [...]

Stephanie Griffin: Owner & Editor in Chief aka Stephanie Taylor After spending over six years working with authors and gaining editing experience from five different e-publishers, Stephanie decided to open her own business after seeing a gap in the e-publishing industry for non-erotic, sweeter publishers. While she doesn’t envision Astraea Press as a solely inspirational publisher, [...]

It’s almost a year ago since the last NINC conference, which inspired me to get my books back into print. The conference was a game-changer for me. I came in a little lost, with only the assurance of other writer friends that this was a conference I had to attend. I listened, met a lot [...]