The Comic Muse » self-publishing https://thecomicmuse.com Revels in the Craft of Storytelling Sun, 08 Dec 2013 01:30:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 https://thecomicmuse.com/category/the-comic-muse-podcast/feed/ The Comic Muse Podcast brings you into the writer's workshop for fun, informative discussions on how the art of the storypreneur can help your business tell its story. Produced and hosted by Daniel McInerny, CEO of The Comic Muse and an author of fiction for both adults and children. Daniel McInerny clean Daniel McInerny [email protected] [email protected] (Daniel McInerny) © Daniel McInerny Productions, LLC Revels in the Craft of Storytelling self-publishing, creative writing, how to write fiction, writing fiction, writing a novel, writing short stories, screenwriting, book marketing, on writing, publishing, literature, drama The Comic Muse » self-publishing https://thecomicmuse.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/comicmuse_logo_podcast.png https://thecomicmuse.com TV-14 True Confessions of a Self-Publishing Author https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/true-confessions-of-a-self-publishing-author/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/true-confessions-of-a-self-publishing-author/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:05:58 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1640 And here’s Part 2 of my talk to the Annapolis Chapter of the Maryland Writer’s Association, in which I get into more of the practical details of self-publishing and marketing one’s books.

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Self-Publishing: What I’ve Learned in the First Two Years, Part 2 https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/self-publishing-what-ive-learned-in-the-first-two-years-part-2/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/self-publishing-what-ive-learned-in-the-first-two-years-part-2/#comments Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:53:38 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1305 Are you thinking about self-publishing your work? Or are you already self-publishing? Is your work fiction or non-fiction? Whatever your answers to these questions, there’s something in this podcast for you as I reveal what I’ve learned in my first two years as a self-publishing author: the 5 brilliant things that I did, and the […]

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Self-Publishing: What I’ve Learned in the First Two Years https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/self-publishing-what-ive-learned-in-the-first-two-years/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/self-publishing-what-ive-learned-in-the-first-two-years/#comments Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:49:08 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1301 Are you thinking about self-publishing your work? Or are you already self-publishing? Is your work fiction or non-fiction? Whatever your answers to these questions, there’s something in this podcast for you as I reveal what I’ve learned in my first two years as a self-publishing author: the 5 brilliant things that I did, and the […]

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I Picked Myself https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/i-picked-myself/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/i-picked-myself/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:35:13 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1296 Back in March of 2011 when Seth Godin wrote this blog post about one of his favorite themes, “pick yourself,” I had never heard of him. But at that very same point in time I was just getting ready to live his advice. I was just about to embark, along with my tremendously supportive wife […]

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Chasing the Whispering Pinker https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/chasing-the-whispering-pinker/ https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/chasing-the-whispering-pinker/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:02:31 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1008 On 1 June 1905, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, having completed his first out-and-out comic novel, Love Among the Chickens, prepared to submit the work to a literary agent. But as we read in Robert McCrum’s magnificent Wodehouse: A Life, the role of literary agent was in 1905 “a new profession in the world of books, and […]

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Seeing Things https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/seeing-things/ https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/seeing-things/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:39:10 +0000 http://www.thecomicmuse.com/?p=849 “Man’s ability to see is in decline. Those who nowadays concern themselves with culture and education will experience this fact again and again. We do not mean here, of course, the physiological sensitivity of the human eye. We mean the spiritual capacity to perceive the visible reality as it truly is.” –Josef Pieper, “Learning How […]

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The Great American Production Line https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/the-great-american-production-line/ https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/the-great-american-production-line/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:40:11 +0000 http://www.thecomicmuse.com/?p=794 The other day I mentioned the distinction between technological thinking and philosophical thinking, and how our culture in general, and electronic media in particular, are dominated by technological thinking. Now we are seeing that technological thinking is seeping into the creative act of writing books. In a piece today on Page-Turner, the book blog of […]

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Book Publishing Comes Home https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/book-publishing-comes-home/ https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/book-publishing-comes-home/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:37:51 +0000 http://www.thecomicmuse.com/?p=775 Three acres and a cow. That’s how G.K. Chesterton summed up his understanding of distributism, an economic theory he championed with Hilaire Belloc and others in the early 20th century. It’s a theory still worth thinking about today. Distributism emphasizes private property, and private property as widely distributed (not necessarily re-distributed) as possible. Distributism puts […]

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