Edit – Quick update on www.booksummit.com – we now have 140+ members, including 100+ kindle owners.
Stumbling around the internet I ran into aspiring novelist Aaron Crocco’s blog Copious Notes which chronicles his efforts to write and get published. One of the things I really liked was a sidebar listing of his novels and the status of each – Aaron’s basically listed the number of pages, the number of words and status of the books he’s writing (including one he’s testing with Beta readers; and one that’s done and on hold).
Just like I feel that the Kindle presents established and published authors with big opportunities to get early and valuable feedback on their works and connect with readers, I think there’s an opportunity for aspiring authors too and some of the reasons are
- Finding beta readers.
- Publishing a free chapter and getting feedback.
- Being able to release a book without having to actually get a publisher.
To this point I haven’t really thought fully of how our social network could help aspiring authors. However, I’m going to start putting some thought into it and see if there’s something we can do. There’s one other author’s blog I wanted to highlight – however, can’t recall the url. will add that in later.
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