Welcome! You’ve discovered the newest place to discover indie authors. We launched a few days ago, with five outstanding indie authors, and we have many more lined up to introduce to you in coming days. We’re not like most of the websites you’ve probably seen that claim to spotlight new indie authors. Most of those are little more than vanity websites for vanity authors. The Bookcast is for readers. We know you’re hungry for...
We’re ready – The Bookcast debuts on Tuesday, October 11. Get ready to meet some very talented writers. And get ready to shed whatever misconceptions you have been harboring about self-published books. The indie authors you’ll discover here at The Bookcast will open up all kinds of new possibilities for your pleasure reading. Our initial group of indie authors is an impressive club, as you’ll find out. Help us spread the word. Tell your...
The launch of The Bookcast offers advertisers who are trying to reach the burgeoning indie author community with a high-profile new venue. If you are a literary agent, a marketing professional, or a freelance editor, or you represent a self-publishing company, an audio book producer, or any other kind of commercial enterprise that is trying to reach indie authors, we invite you to contact The Bookcast for information on how we can help you...
Have you read an indie author recently? There is no question that one of the tectonic changes taking place in American book publishing is the purposeful move by many authors away from traditional publishing houses to the “indie” or self-published route. As Alina Tugend writes in the New York Times, “self-publishing is obviously taking off…” Tugend admits to being quite a snob when it comes to her literary taste, but then having a revelation:...
More than 25 years ago when I began interviewing authors for a major radio network I instituted a rule: no interviews with self-published authors. Back then, in the ’80s. self-published, or “vanity,” books were typically badly written and poorly edited. Authors were often duped by unscrupulous “publishers” who took their money, printed a few books, and wished the author well. But something began to change a few years ago. Self-publishing began to take on...
You’re going to like The Bookcast, which will give you a whole new way of discovering indie authors. These are not “vanity” books – and The Bookcast is not a “vanity” website. When I was a younger man, I once got a very official-looking letter in the mail informing me I had been chosen for inclusion in some directory of America’s most promising young people. What an honor, I thought – until I realized...
