About
April L. Hamilton
April
L. Hamilton is an author, blogger, Technorati BlogCritic, leading
advocate and speaker for the indie author movement, and founder
and Editor in chief of Publetariat,
the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and
small imprints.
She's
spoken at the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference and the Writers
Digest Business of Getting Published conference, and has also
judged self-published books for competitions run by Writers Digest
and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Recently,
she launched the Publetariat
Vault, an acquisitions crowdsourcing tool to serve trade publishers
and self-published authors, and Vault
University, an online educational program offering lessons
in Self-Publishing
and Author
Platform/Book Promotion.
In
her popular self-published reference book, The
IndieAuthor Guide, she offers aspiring self-published
authors a roadmap to success. The Book has been picked up by Writer's
Digest Books for publication in a revised and updated edition
in November of 2010. April is also the author of novels
available in both ebook and POD form.
She's
been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, MSN Money and The Washington
Times, profiled by ABNA Books and The Writing Cast podcast, and
her book, The IndieAuthor Guide, has received favorable mention
on CNET and The Huffington Post.
April
adds: I live in Southern California with my husband, two children
and entirely too many pets. When I'm not writing, promoting indie
authorship, kid-wrangling or pursuing my grandiose and hopeless
dream of a neat and orderly household, I can generally be found
reading, reclaiming the domestic arts (aka "crafting")
or taking in a movie.
My
GoodReads Bookshelf
My
IndieAuthor Blog
My Amazon Author Page
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me on Twitter
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Indie
Authorship 101
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An
indie author is an author who has made the conscious decision
to bring his or her work to a readership independently after carefully
researching and considering all available options. If you are
publishing and promoting your work yourself, without the intervention
of any corporate middlemen, whether the product is a hard cover,
paperback, Ebook, Kindle™ book, podcast, or online serialization,
congratulations: you are an indie author.
If
you'd like to know why I became an indie author, this article
I wrote for Teleread, "No,
Mr. Murdoch; That Was A Movie, This Is a Book," sums
it up pretty well.
To
read more about what I think is wrong with the current state of
trade publishing, check out my blog post, 2009
ABNA: Horseman Of The Writerly Apocalypse?, and this article
I wrote for Publetariat, #Publisherfail:
The One Thing Big Pub Must Change In Order To Survive.
Those who are
considering going indie but still have reservations might want
to take a gander at my Teleread article, Top
Ten Self-Publishing Myths.
My
books are only sold online and through small, independent booksellers.
This blog post, Big
Chain Bookstore Death Watch, explains why.
Those who are
ready to dip a toe in the indie author pool but aren't ready to
invest the $24 to buy The IndieAuthor Guide sight unseen might
like to head over to the IndieAuthor
Guides page, where I've made the entire book available for
online viewing, free of charge.
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Representation:
Rita Rosenkranz
Literary Agency
440 West End Avenue, #15D
New York, New York 10024-5358
(212) 873-6333 phone
(212) 873-5225 fax
Speaking
Availability:
I am available
to speak to your group or class on topics related to self-publishing,
author platform and Kindle publication. Contact me at indieauthor@gmail.com
to make arrangements.
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