Edited by William Allen Webb and Chris Kennedy, Titans Rising<\/em> is a manifesto combined with a how-to book on writing and publishing. I am not exaggerating when I say it may be the most important book on how to succeed in today’s everchanging climate. Independent presses are springing up everywhere. Amazon has crashed the gates of traditional publishing and the few major houses left standing are reeling, trying desperately to hold onto control of the market.<\/p>\n And failing.<\/p>\n It’s a real-life Game of Thrones and the Big 4 are playing the role of Ned Stark, clinging to the past even as their heads are on the chopping block.<\/p>\n Want a different analogy?<\/p>\n Okay. The Big 4 are the dinosaurs; Amazon is the comet that wipes them out, and the Independent Presses are the small squeaky mammals who improvise, adapt, and take over the world. (Hmmm. Small Squeaky Mammals. Could be the name of a publishing company. Or a bad punk band.)<\/p>\n However you want to look at it, publishing is changing and the pace of the change is accelerating. Just last month, Brandon Sanderson turned the publishing world on its head when he announced a Kickstarter<\/a> to publish the four novels he wrote during the travel restricted period of the shut downs.<\/p>\n![\"Cover](\"https:\/\/richhailey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/titans-rising-cover-190x300.png\")
<\/a>Not only is the paint not dry on this site, I haven’t even finished building the foundations and I’m already writing a review!\u00a0 That’s how important Titans Rising<\/em> is.<\/p>\nBrandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>He raised $42 million dollars in a month. As is pointed out in Titans Rising<\/em>, that’s 10x more than one of the biggest SF publishers brings in over an entire year. Sanderson has paid attention to the market, and has learned the lessons provided in Titans Rising<\/em>. Build and audience, and they will support you.<\/p>\n
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Titans Rising is a manifesto combined with a how-to book on writing and publishing. I am not exaggerating when I say it may be the most important book on how to succeed in today’s everchanging climate. Independent presses are springing up everywhere. Amazon has crashed the gates of traditional publishing and the few major houses left standing are reeling, trying desperately to hold onto control of the market.<\/p>\n
And failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[12,9,13,11,14],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-writer","tag-indy-press","tag-non-fiction","tag-review","tag-sff-publishing","tag-titans-rising"],"yoast_head":"\n