Category Archives: The Soapbox

The Soapbox – Take Your Job %$^&*#@ Seriously

Take Your Job %$^&*#@ Seriously Today’s topic requires some background reading. First, you should probably check out Lousy Book Covers. Hold those thoughts! Now read/skim Nathan Shumate’s blog post [..]

Share
Business, Idiocy, Independent Publishing, Professionalism, Publishers Behaving Badly, Publishing Industry, The Soapbox , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

2012.11.02 – The Soapbox: The Amazon Review Crackdown, and Konrath Fails Again

Amazon has effectively decided that you cannot be both an author and a reviewer. At least not on their store website. The Scandals After a series of high-profile [..]

Share
Idiocy, Publishing Industry, Reviewing, The Soapbox , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Soapbox: On Political Correctness

[This post is a few days overdue. I've been furiously writing to finish and publish my books for the holiday schedule. I get that this is old news [..]

Share
Idiocy, The Soapbox , , , , , , , , ,

The Soapbox: People Read Writers’ Blogs Because…They’re Writers.

Shocker, right? I know this must be hard for some authors to contemplate. After all, marketing “experts” tell us we need to focus more on bringing in and [..]

Share
Professionalism, Publishing Industry, The Soapbox , , , , , , , , ,

THE SOAPBOX: Don’t Walk Back the Truth

[Every so often, The Soapbox will come out. I'm trying to limit its appearances, because if I wanted a social justice blog, I could have one, and I [..]

Share
The Soapbox , , , , , , , , , ,