We promised transparency, and so here it is. The following is an update on all the things that are going on at Temporary Infinity. First off, we are still accepting submissions. Currently we have received three query letters and are looking at one manuscript. At this point no rejections have been sent, but as promised, [...]
Used to be, back in the day, if you wrote a great book and got it published, not much else was needed to build a career in writing fiction. Boy, have the times changed. Things are a bit different. These days, if you manage to sell a few thousand copies without doing any self-marketing, you’re [...]
Continue Reading →People always say don’t judge a book by its cover. But really, who doesn’t do just that? Cover design is something extremely important in the arena of making and selling a book. One of the first things that draws a person to a book in a bookstore, or online, is the cover design. Even before [...]
Continue Reading →Not long ago, Penguin decided to cut ties with the digital library vendor OverDrive. OverDrive is a service that supplies download services for libraries and schools, among others. What does this mean? Another bonehead decision by a big publisher. It’s a bit of a cascade of awful decisions. First, they were reluctant to move towards [...]
Continue Reading →Ebook or print? Which is better, which will be the future, which one will beat which? At Temporary Infinity we are creating our books in Ebook fashion. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is cost. We want to be able to publish our books in every format available, and right now [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve all read books with epic journeys, and some of us have written them, or at least tried to. The hero’s journey is a well known archetype, and a very successful one. But there is another journey behind the stories that we read, and that is the journey the story itself took to find its [...]
Continue Reading →Zach wrote something at the end of his last blog that I think we need to dig into a little more. And that is, the role of a publisher. In a world where anyone can easily self-publish their work and put it up on Smashwords or Amazon, or get a site like Lulu to create [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, Andrew talked about transparency in publishing. It’s a big deal to us. We are committed to building relationships between ourselves and our authors and, of course, the readers. A relationship based on trust and honesty – the readers can trust that we will put out great books, the authors can trust that we [...]
Continue Reading →We have chosen our next novella of the week. This week we will be reading The Men Upstairs by Tim Waggoner. Follow us on our twitter account @ti_press for more updates. And join us on Friday for a book club chat under the #novellachat hash tag! Here is a link to the book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Men-Upstairs-ebook/dp/B006JT5Z7Y
Continue Reading →Hidden numbers, mysterious contracts, vague replies — these are things that we do not believe in. When establishing Temporary Infinity as a novella publishing outlet we decided that transparency would be synonymous with Temporary Infinity. In that act of transparency we want to make sure that authors are getting the most money possible, and that [...]
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