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Dean Wesley Smith
Personal blog · deanwesleysmith.comwritingbusiness
Dean Wesley Smith's personal blog at deanwesleysmith.com covers writing and business. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Barry Eisler Turns Down Major Deal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog in discussions of self-publishing economics, such as what publishers still add beyond advances and distribution, and what writing and editing actually cost an author.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Opinions and Writings
Most-linked posts?
- Barry Eisler Turns Down Major Deal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Because they are offering little real value (the vast majority of value publishers really offered was the advance, which I haven't heard of these guys offering, and distribution which you can do as well yourself thanks to Kindle + Nook stores). The one MAJOR cost left to self publishing if you are truly serious is editing, unless you are in a genre where stock image covers won't cut it. Giving up a % of sales revenu…
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on “Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books”Submitted The New World of Writing: Pulp Speed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYour laptop can serve as that OCR service and it can cost a few - even several - times less than that estimate. Case in point: I write this reply on a $250 Woot.com netbook, which already saw me through a few novel drafts. Please watch your costs here. My writing still hasn't covered the costs of the netbook I bought for my first novel, drafted back in 2008, and I paid only $500 for that one. A hundred sales counts…
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on “Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating”Submitted Barry Eisler Turns Down Major Deal as a story · 2 points
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