Self-publish South Africa

Self-publish South Africa has moved! Visit http://mousehand.book.co.za – same concept, lots more to it!

Arg. Just 24 hours after our landline and internet were fixed, down again. So we have LOTS of cyber catching up to do, but don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about the blog! Happy days, Ingrid

Hi all, Sorry for a lull in the posts – we lost our landline, and internet, for some time! We’ve been planning in our little unconnected office in the meantime though, and will soon have a nice interview with Colleen Higgs up on fiction writing and publishing, and an interesting interview with Hamil

The answer: yes, edit. Yes, yes, yes. Why are we so enthused? Check out our About writing page for a nice, simple summary from the Professional Editor’s Group website. In a few days, Mousehand promises to release its June newsletter, and there’ll be some interesting points and factoids on editing in

Michael Gastrow, Erik Norgaard and Floris Brown … a novel, a biography and poetry Click here …

We respond to a question on profit from a self-published author. Check out our About selling a book page … Does the answer make sense? What’s your experience like?

If you’re going to self-publish and expect any kind of commercial success,  you best learn about the goings on in the book sector. Posted below are extracts from Jessica Hadley Grave’s article (October 2009). Jessica Hadley Grave is the editor of Bookmark, the news magazine of the South African Book

Arthur Atwell is responsible for co-founding Mousehand, Electric Book Works (which he still runs), and impressing a lot of people when he won Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009. Today I spoke at a meeting of the Professional Editor’s Group at The Book Lounge in Cape Town. The good tur

One way, and arguably the best, is to go to the source – Lightning Source. On Aaron Shepard’s Publishing blog, he states: “Lightning Source is still the most profitable way to aim at Amazon. And there has been no sign whatever of that fact changing for independent self publishers.” Read more here. H