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Nick Russell on December 10th, 2011

Nobody was more surprised than I was to learn that my mystery, Big Lake, had risen to number 23 in the Paid Kindle store, number 4 in Bestsellers in Mysteries & Thrillers, and even more amazing, it was listed at number 76 on the New York Times Kindle Bestseller List! The book has been in [...]

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Nick Russell on November 20th, 2011

The good news is that Amazon revolutionized the world of publishing when it introduced the Kindle e-book reader and began its Kindle Direct Publishing program, which has allowed authors and self-publishers to bring out their e-books in a quick and easy format. This has been a win-win for everybody but the big traditional publishing houses. [...]

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Nick Russell on June 24th, 2011

I’ll admit that I never expected e-books to explode onto the publishing scene like they have, but as an author and self-publisher, I am thrilled. As e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook become less expensive, and free e-book apps for laptop computers, the iPad, iPhone, and other smart phones [...]

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Nick Russell on May 28th, 2011

It was a week ago that I uploaded my first e-book, the murder mystery Big Lake, to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Since then, I have uploaded three nonfiction titles, The Frugal RVer, The Gun Shop Manual, and just today, Work Your Way Across The USA. The last one should be live sometime Sunday or Monday. (Update, [...]

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Nick Russell on May 7th, 2011

For years, the big traditional publishing companies had a lock on the industry. If a writer wanted to get published, he had to play the game – first you get an agent (almost impossible), then your agent gets your book read by somebody at a publishing house (again, almost impossible), then your book gets picked [...]

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Nick Russell on April 30th, 2011

I currently have four self-published books in print, along with seven niche guides, a couple of informational CDs, and several more in the works. But you would be hard pressed to find any of them in a traditional bookstore. You can go to your favorite bookstore or Amazon and they can order them through the [...]

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