Mark Coker has posted another Smashwords “Year in Review” article over at the Smashwords blog. From the article:
Welcome to my annual Smashwords year in review.
It was another amazing year.
On behalf of all employees at Smashwords, I want to start by thanking every Smashwords author, publisher and agent that publishes and distributes with Smashwords. We serve at your pleasure and we appreciate your trust, partnership and support.
Orna Ross recently posted a wonderful blog entry about creative intention over at the ALLi Self Publishing Advice website. From the article:
Planning to write 1000 words a day through 2014? Resolving to definitely get that title that’s been hanging around forever up and out there?
Oh yes, it’s that time of year when indie authors make our resolutions about the books we are going to write (and sell and publish) over the coming months.
Cassie MacDuff has posted in the Press Enterprise about Lake Gregory. To be honest, I have never been there; it’s a sign with an arrow on it on my way up to Big Bear or down to the flatlands.
Over the past 20 years, Lake Gregory in the San Bernardino Mountains has languished in the shadows of its bigger, glitzier cousins, Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake.
Visitors bypassed the forested lake and continued to the bigger, better-tended resorts up the hill.
AuthorReading.com will start offering expedited reviews to better serve the literary community. This year, small press and self-publishing has blossomed as never before, with self-publishing now very much a legitimate publishing option for authors. Today much of the literary community has shed its bias against those who have chosen to self-publish. Authors Reading welcomes this change and hopes it can be instrumental in helping those Indie authors in their uphill battle to promote and sell their books. As authors quickly learn, once a book is finished, tapping into a receptive audience is a formidable task. In the book publishing world, that is known as “discoverability.”
xRez Studio has put up an AMAZING app for the iPad and Oculus Rift “Yosemite Spyglass.”
From their website:
We love Yosemite and have found a few new ways to experience it in gigapixel on the iPad and Oculus Rift!
The Oculus Rift version of Yosemite Spyglass is available for the Mac and PC. The Yosemite Spyglass for the iPad is available in the Apple App Store. Yosemite Spyglass is a free download for either platform!
Yosemite Spyglass Tech Demo is a collaboration between Art + Science Labs and xRez Studio and powered by GigaEngine, a spherical gigapixel viewer for the Oculus and iOS. If you would like to add gigapixel viewing to your App email info@gigaengine.com
