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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.

 

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Speaking Availability

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.

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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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