Posted by Julie Ortolon on April 27, 2012
It was a year ago this month that my world changed forever thanks to the ebook revolution. April 2011 was when my sales exploded. I have been reeling – in a good way – ever since. This journey, however, started long before that. It started in the fall of 2009. Back then, I had one [...]
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Tags: ebooks by julie ortolon, epublishing a romance novel, pearl island trilogy, romance novels by julie ortolon, self publishing an ebook | 
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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 [...]
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Tags: ebooks, epublishing a romance novel, indie authors working with a literary agent, self publishing an ebook | 14 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 June 21, 2011
As romance writers across the country get ready for RWA’s national conference in New York, many attendees are anxiously preparing for their ten-minute appointments with agents and editors. Some published authors who have been down that path are offering to help their unpublished sisters perfect those pitches, while others are wondering: Why are writers even [...]
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Tags: ebook income, ebook income verses print book income, pitching to an agent, pitching to an editor, RWA, RWA conference 2011, self publishing, self publishing an ebook | 30 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on January 8, 2011
Guest Blog by author Patricia McLinn With opportunities such as this wonderful blog by Julie, authors are reaching out to each other to share lessons learned as we venture into, as Julie’s masthead said “the brave new world of publishing.” We’re rather like westward bound pioneers on the Oregon Trail. We listen to those who [...]
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Tags: epublishing a romance novel, Judith Arnold, novel writing, Patricia McLinn, Patricia Rice, romance novel ebooks, romance novels, self publishing an ebook, Writing | 12 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on December 4, 2010
Since I’ve returned from RWA and wrote a few blogs on all the buzz about the ebook revolution, I’ve been a bit quiet. Well, quiet here on my blog. Not at all quiet everywhere else. I’ve been insanely busy implementing all the things I’ve learned over the last year. So, here’s what I’ve been up [...]
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Tags: pearl island trilogy, romance novel ebooks, romance novels by julie ortolon, self publishing an ebook | 2 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.
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Tags: amazon kindle, ebooks, ebooks by julie ortolon, pricing ebooks, self publishing an ebook | 8 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 19, 2010
If you want to sell your ebook to Kindle readers, is it better to go through Smashwords, or directly through Amazon? The answer: Both!
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Tags: amazon kindle self publishing, ebooks by julie ortolon, epublishing with smashwords, how to publish on amazon, how to publish on smashwords, self publishing an ebook, why self publish on kindle | 21 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 12, 2010
Are you confused over whether you need an ISBN for your ebook and how to get one? I know I was before I went through the process of uploading my first ebook.
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Tags: how to get an isbn, isbn numbers, self publishing an ebook | 9 Comments »
Posted by Julie Ortolon on May 18, 2010
People predicted it for years, but most authors published by traditional print houses tuned it out as annoying chatter. As recently as a year ago, I and others had the same prejudice against self publishing and ebooks that I had ten years ago…Well, my friends, the wave of the future has crashed over our heads. The world of publishing is changing even as I type this.
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Tags: how to promote a book online, how to promote a novel, internet marketing, ipad, j.a. konrath, ja konrath, kindle, nook, romance novel ebooks, romance novels by julie ortolon, self publishing, self publishing an ebook, the newbie's guide to publishing, why self publish on kindle | 10 Comments »
