A surprising amount of writing is self marketing

[james_davis_nicoll]

Case in point:Gary L.M. Martin's about page.

Comments

[jreynoldsward]

Yeah. I've been in the world of self-publishing since 2011, and...dear God, I can make better covers in PowerPoint. Those are extremely old-school covers. The covers you link to are much more current and, more than that, they aren't that frickin' expensive. Plus the author is probably making decent money on those books, enough to afford better cover art for the genre (nine pages of books? Author is cranking 'em out).

Then again, I don't think Martin's writing career is about sales as much as it is about ideology. The difference in blurbs is telling.

[ariaflame]

Good writers don't necessarily make decent money. This is not a good writer.

[jreynoldsward]

Duh.