Last night I submitted my first truly self published book to the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program. This morning, there it was! Miraculous. It’s self published in the sense that I either took each step along the way personally, or I engineered the step by hiring someone to do what I thought I couldn’t do. […]
Month: May 2013
Do Minority Writers Have an Advantage?
American Readers Like Unconventional Characters, but… In an article Amit Mujmudar wrote for the NY Times on May 5 entitled Am I an ‘Immigrant Writer‘?, he explores writing for the American fiction reading world as a minority. Almost immediately he concludes that “a minority author may well have an advantage”. It stems from the American reader’s appetite […]