Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 8, 2011
As more and more established authors go indie, either by e-pubbing their backlist or taking new material straight to ebook, many of us wonder: What will be the agent’s role in this new publishing frontier? That conversation came up repeatedly during the recent RWA conference in NYC. Among the authors I spoke with, everyone agrees [...]
Categories: ebooks, Promoting ebooks, self publishing, The Journey, Uncategorized |
Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, indie authors working with a literary agent, self publishing an ebook | 
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 5, 2011
This year’s Romance Writer of America conference was an amazing experience for me. I actually feel like I just came home from two separate conferences that happened to be going on at the same time in the same hotel. There was the official RWA conference with workshops, agent/editor appointments, and publisher parties. Then there was [...]
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Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, romance writers of america, RWA Conference | 14 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 29, 2011
Okay, technically, it’s Wednesday since it’s after midnight. I’m writing on my iPad by the light of a single lamp since my roomies are asleep. I’m hoarse from talking all day in a bar filled hundreds of women writers and my feet ache from striding around New York in some killer high heels, but my [...]
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Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, romance writers of america, RWA Conference | 16 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 28, 2011
I just landed in New York City for the annual Romance Writers of America national conference. Wow how much the world has changed from last year, when the conference was in Disney World. A year ago, I and many authors, were just getting our feet wet releasing our backlist as ebooks. Now, several of us [...]
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Tags: ebooks, ebooks by julie ortolon, epublishing a romance novel, self publishing an ebook | 9 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on April 22, 2011
I’m about to do a series of posts on effective ebook marketing. Before I start interviewing authors, I want to hear from readers. I can’t make this a “click on your answer survey” so here are the types of things I’m hoping to learn from your comments. How Do You Find eBooks? Mention all methods [...]
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Tags: ebooks, effective ebook marketing, how to promote an ebook, how to promote ebooks, marketing an ebook | 10 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on April 18, 2011
I’ve had a wild ride at Amazon ever since they dropped the price of Almost Perfect, book one of my contemporary romance trilogy, to free. I know a lot of you have been asking how the heck did I pull this off. Anyone following the e-book revolution closely knows an individual author self-publishing an ebook [...]
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Tags: backlist ebooks, ebooks, ebooks by julie ortolon, epublishing a romance novel, epublishing with smashwords, free ebooks for kindle, free ebooks on amazon, how to get your ebook free on amamzon, how to promote a book online, how to promote an ebook, promoting novels online, romance novel ebooks | 11 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on March 30, 2011
Romance novel fans are some of the most opinionated readers when it comes to covers. Now that so many romances from the past are coming back as ebooks, I’m dying to hear what readers like to see in ebook covers. Here’s your chance to share your opinions. You’re likes and dislikes could help shape to [...]
Categories: book cover design, ebooks, Uncategorized |
Tags: cover design by Julie Ortolon, ebook cover design, ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, romance novel covers, romance novels | 27 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on August 17, 2010
Now more than ever, readers need someone to guide them with recommendations. This is a perfect chance for those booksellers who had brick-and-mortar stores (or still have them) to have an online extension of that friendly enclave we lost.
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Tags: ebooks, how to promote ebooks, independent books stores, online bookstores, romance novel ebooks, romance novels by julie ortolon | 8 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on August 13, 2010
How many of you think the major print publishers are princing ebooks too dang high? I was firmly in the camp that believed they were until I attended the Romance Writers of America conference in Orlando where I heard some good defense for the publishers’ pricing. I haven’t been swayed completely, but I am willing to reconsider the matter.
Categories: ebooks, self publishing |
Tags: amazon kindle, ebooks, ebooks by julie ortolon, pricing ebooks, self publishing an ebook | 8 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on August 3, 2010
Finally, a conference with an upbeat tone about the future of publishing! After years of hearing gloom and doom predictions, I had, quite possibly, the most positive experience ever at a writers convention during this year’s Romance Writers of America conference in Orlando, Florida. Okay, so it was at Walt Disney World, “the happiest place [...]
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Tags: ebooks, romance novels, self | 19 Comments »
