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Whatever Happened to Jeff Posey?

In college, I had to take a swimming test. To prove I could swim. There must have been a box on a form somewhere that had to be checked. Everybody had to do it. So I jumped in, blew most of the air out...

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“Goodbye Traditional Publishing, Hello Hot Water Press,” by Jeff Posey

I give up. Goodbye, traditional publishing. Goodby legacy houses I’ve read and admired since my youth. I’m moving on. After months, years, decades of thinking about and flirting with the entrenched...

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“Indie Publishing is a Business: A Three-Step Primer for Writers,” by Jeff Posey

As the Director of the Dallas-Fort Worth Writers’ Conference in February, 2011, having been a magazine writer for a decade, a book publisher for half a decade, earned an MBA in corporate financial...

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“First a Name, Then a Resolution: The Business of Independent Publishing,” by...

First a name, then a legal Resolution. My heart resides in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, which is the setting for most of my fiction. “Pagosa” is derived from the Ute word “Pag-go-sah,” which means “hot...

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“Indie Publication Schedule: Self-Driven Deadlines,” by Jeff Posey

All businesses need business plans. An indie publisher needs a publication schedule. For a one-writer indie shop like my Hot Water Press, that means self-driven deadlines. But I’ll get to those in a...

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“Indie Publishing: Pricing for Hot Water Press,” by Jeff Posey

Indie author pricing almost killed me, it made me so angry. I wrote a blog called “Indie Pricing: The Road to Hell,” but I deleted it. Who needs another rant? But please allow me a mini-rant. Price...

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“Social Media and Amazon KDP Select Free: A Marketing Test,” by Jeff Posey

I’ve been giving the Amazon KDP Select program a try with my new publications, which I’m publishing on a twice-a-month schedule while I burn up my backlistof short stories. That frequent of a...

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10-Novel Plan

I’ve struggled with what to do with this blog, and I had one of those insights that should have blinded me. Fortunately, I can still see. But I realized as long as I have my books here in the Hot Water...

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SEO for Book Publishers: Five-Step Tune Up

My brother is an electrical engineer for a company that specializes in listening for the echoes of explosions. They make a big noise, sound waves travel into the earth, are reflected by various layers,...

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What’s Your Novel Worth? NPV and Cash Flow

This post has been picked up here: Some Fun Calculations by Dean Wesley Smith and What’s Your Novel Worth? NPV and Cash Flow by Passive Guy. See particularly the comments section. For better or worse,...

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