I’m talking this week with Jamie Wyman, author of Wild Card and the sequel Unveiled, whose publication she is currently funding through a Kickstarter campaign. Since one of those books was e-published by Entangled and the other is self-published, Jamie is in an excellent position to compare the two processes. Plus…
Editor Danielle Poiesz
Create Space and extended distribution
I much prefer the writer aspect of writing
A video of Jamie eating fire (which you can’t see unless you back her project)
Beta-readers, critique partners, and professional editors
Editors are supposed to be your manuscript’s voice
Wild Card is technomancers and trickster gods playing poker
Jamie put some of her world building online. Go read it.
I put my world building online and nobody read it. Ha ha.
I’m not going to read a book about a witch with a tramp-stamp.
John Picacio‘s cover art for The Creative Fire
You’re a little bit freer to make your own identity