April L. Hamilton: About

About April L. Hamilton

I am an author, blogger, Technorati BlogCritic, advocate for the indie author movement and founder of Publetariat.com. 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

An indie author is an author who has decided the mainstream publishing industry has little or nothing to offer, and has made the conscious decision to bring his or her work to a readership independently. 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 mainstream publishing, check out my blog post, 2009 ABNA: Horseman Of The Writerly Apocalypse?.

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 posted a complete table of contents and excerpts from the book for free viewing and download in pdf format.