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It’s Your Industry

Click these links to learn more…

The World’s 54 Largest Publishers, 2017:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/74505-the-world-s-50-largest-publishers-2017.html

Leading online print book genres in the United States in 2017, by revenue
https://www.statista.com/statistics/322187/book-genres-revenue/

2018 Book Industry Predictions:
http://blog.smashwords.com/2017/12/2018-book-industry-predictions.html

Amazon Author Rank:
https://www.amazon.com/author-rank

Amazon’s relationship to you, as a writer:
https://newrepublic.com/article/142616/amazon-steps-battle-book-industry

AND, consider a new hobby for when you are successful:
http://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-hobbies-of-richest-people-in-the-world-2016-8#11-footballsoccer–131-10

(P.S. My hobbies are computer gaming and training cats to fly.)

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GD Deckard

Severely beaten as a child by a WWII hero and combat-induced-PTSD stepfather, the author, as a teen, faced the old man down with a shotgun and earned his blessing to join the military at the time Americans were learning about a country called Vietnam. The “lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch” opted out of combat and hard labor by becoming an Air Force medic, stamping out suffering and misery on Freedom’s Frontier at Clark Airbase in S.E. Asia and earning some kind of medal pinned on him personally by then Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown, for “Saving lives, etc.” There followed a summer in Europe ending in the first of happy marriages. Then graduation with University Honors, kids worth dying for and a career in business. Life is good. Author, The Phoenix Diary, Penguin, 2015. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-phoenix-diary-g-d-deckard/1122175645 Founding Member, Writers Co-op. https://WritersCo-op.com Co-Editor, The Rabbit Hole anthologies. https://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Hole-Weird-Stories/dp/1691225355/ref=sr_1_1 Founder, SciFi Lampoon Magazine. http://scifilampoon.com/ Contributing Editor, A Celebration of Storytelling https://www.amazon.com/Celebration-Storytelling-GD-Deckard/dp/1951716167 Current WIP: Code Blue and Little Deaths, stories from Clark during the Vietnam War. Recipient of the Psi Young award for Creative Biography.

11 responses to “It’s Your Industry”

  1. mimispeike Avatar
    mimispeike

    You beat me to it, GD. I just wrote another nothing post, and was about to upload it.

    The title: ‘Got Any Tips For Me?’ I ask for help tracking down certain information on Hamelin, late sixteenth century. I’ve found pathetically little physical description. I’ll save it for another day when it seems nothing new is prepared by anyone else.

    So, people, if you don’t want to hear about Hamelin, get busy on something else.

    ___________________________________________

    Update: Sly, Drusilla, and a big, ugly, homeless dog named Reisig are about to make contact with the rats.

    Reisig will be a real asset in the rat-circus to come.

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      Thanks, Mimi. And whenever you do post a request for information, I’ll link to it from my Facebook. Y’never know what expertise lurks there.

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  2. mimispeike Avatar
    mimispeike

    My hat’s off to you, GD, for chasing all this down. Are you doing any writing?

    I had high hopes for Gluckel of Hameln. A memoir written about eighty years after my time. Alas, it is mostly intimate details of her household. I find nice period phrases I can use, but not much else.

    If I have to, I’ll resort to my usual trick (in the footnotes): Folks, I made this stuff up, based on what info I have been able to find. If I’ve got it way wrong, let me know.

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      Interesting idea, Mimi. Ask your readers for more info. That could actually engage your readers in your works. Make them solid fans.

      & yup, I’m writing. I have a short story coming out this year in an anthology -not The Rabbit Hole; another one to finish up, an idea to split “Bob vs The Aliens” into short stories and a serious novel. The novel may interest you -remember the most intense experiences of your life and imagine how you might write them. Me, I’m at the very early phase of trying to remember them with clarity.

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  3. Perry Palin Avatar
    Perry Palin

    I already practice seven of those rich peoples’ hobbies.

    Now I just have to get rich. That may not happen through my writing, though.

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      It’s your healthy attitude that makes you rich, Perry 🙂

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  4. mimispeike Avatar
    mimispeike

    I haven’t read all the material yet, but I see valuable information in the 2018 Book Predictions. I will read all this weekend, after I’ve pulled myself together.

    I had a scare with my Imac this morning, spent half an hour on the phone with Apple Help. My screen was going black a few seconds after every time I got it up. I was led through various fixes, no luck. Finally he advised upgrading my operating system, this go-dark thing is a glitch with the one I had. I am upgraded and all seems to be well. What a horrible morning!

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      Ack! I hate computer glitches. Hope you’re backing everything up as you go. My netbook automatically preserves my deathless prose on the cloud.

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    2. Perry Palin Avatar
      Perry Palin

      My wife and I moved to our current hobby farm in 2010. It has taken a while, but we now have a plumber, an auto mechanic, a building contractor, a snow plower, a hay farmer, a farrier, a horse vet, and IT consultants. Life is easy now.

      Our IT guys, a couple of brothers, opened their business about the same time we moved here. I was one of their first customers. They handle my software, hardware, and connectivity issues. When I went in with a software problem, the guy said, “I can fix this for you right now for $29, or I can tell you how to fix it yourself for free.” Lke I said, life is easy now.

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  5. mimispeike Avatar
    mimispeike

    A very basic question: if you have your thing on KU, can you also sell it whole on Amazon? At the same time?

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    1. GD Deckard Avatar
      GD Deckard

      I expect so. But, you might ask on my Facebook page to confirm.
      https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015949020840

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