Multimedia ebooks, enhanced books, enriched books, interactive ebooks—whatever you call them, they’re here to stay. As more companies make the foray into multimedia book publishing, authors have greater opportunities than ever to transform their static PDFs into living stories with the addition of audio, video, and graphics.

Below is a comparison of the top multimedia ebook publishers on the market, but keep your eyes peeled. There are new ones popping up every…

The Random House Publishing Group (my happy literary home!) just announced three new digital imprints to add to LOVESWEPT, their digital imprint for romance and women's fiction:

ALIBI, for mystery/suspense;

HYDRA, for sci-fi/fantasy; and

FLIRT, for "college-age New Adult" fiction

Their stated goal is to provide "affordable, accessible, and accomplished genre fiction," which they will publish more quickly and nimbly than traditional books.

What's in it for…

 



I'm stepping into new frontiers again with my first official foray into fiction writing--a short story titled "The Wedding Dress" that I've published through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.  After five years of writing essays, I figured it was about time to dip a toe into new waters.  You can check out the cover and the first few paragraphs for free on Amazon with this link:…

Today's edition of Saturday Sharing takes you around the Web for inspirational poetry, Poetry Turned Around, e-publishing topics, and data visualizations. The video feature is an animation of a concrete poem.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/saturday-sharing-my-finds-are-yours_18.html

I have made a list of digital publishers with links to their submission guidelines as a resource for new writers who are looking to submit their novellas, short stories and novels. For complete list, see my blog List of Digital Publishers.

The list is by no means complete, and if you know of a publisher that should be added, please send me their name and links. Thank you 

Rebecca Lynn, author of the soon-to-be published Descendents Saga, talks to She Writes intern Isabel Farhi about self-publishing, internet publishing, and her genre choices

You have written books of all different genres, from urban fantasy to high fantasy to…

At this year's BEA conference, the talk was all e.  Ebooks, epub, e-everything. And it got me to thinking.  She Writes has an amazingly engaged, talented community, an authentic voice, and an audience.  Maybe we should think about doing some publishing ourselves.

However when I began to look at all the available…

In Which Sarah Glazer Indulges in the Guilty Pleasure of Paper Books

The bell jingles when you open the door just like the quaint shops in old movies, the books stand open on the shelves inviting you to look at the colorful endpapers, and there’s a scent from fresh flowers in a vase.

That’s the enticing atmosphere of a bookshop in London’s Bloomsbury…

First of all, why should you listen to me, an unknown author, tell you how to sell your book on Kindle? A little more than a year ago, I was a semi-retired professor of U.S. Women’s history who, besides a few academic articles, had never published a thing. What I did have was a manuscript of an historical mystery I had written 20 years earlier, based on my doctoral research on working women in the late nineteenth century. In the 20 years after writing the first draft, while I pursued my…

Sarah Glazer loves her new iPad for travel but finds it has drawbacks for complex plots.

My new iPad, purchased for a 24-hour flight to New Zealand,…