Publishing – Lori Smith, author of The Jane Austen Guide to Life

Publishing | The Jane Austen Guide to Life

Release day!

Bylori May 1, 2012May 1, 2012

So the official release day for The Jane Austen Guide to Life is here! Excited to see this baby go out into the world. This day has come faster than I thought it would. Amazon’s actually been shipping for a couple of weeks, and some bookstores may not yet have the title on shelves (sometimes…

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Jane Austen’s Self-publishing Success (and what we can learn from it)

Bylori March 5, 2012May 1, 2012

Did you know? Jane Austen was self-published. Yes! Can you imagine? Jane Austen — one of our Best Writers Ever — could not get a publisher to take a chance on her. And not just for her first book. Three of the four books published during her lifetime were self-published. (I must thank Juliette Wells…