Independent Publisher's Science Fiction Anthology Achieves Amazon #1 New Release Status
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Summary
The article discusses the author's experience publishing a science fiction anthology titled 'Think Weirder: The Year's Best Science Fiction Ideas' as an independent publisher. The 16-story collection features notable authors like Greg Egan, Isabel J. Kim, Ray Nayler, and Caroline M. Yoachim, and achieved the #1 New Release position in Amazon's Short Stories Anthologies category, outperforming major publishers' releases. The author emphasizes their non-professional status, balancing publishing work with a full-time job and parenting responsibilities, and shares insights about the independent publishing process and success metrics.
Key quotes
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The book ended up being the #1 New Release in the Short Stories Anthologies category for a short time on Amazon, outselling many other newly released short story anthologies published by the big NYC publishers with large marketing departments.
I'm not a professional publisher. I have a full-time job and two small kids, so all of this work happened after my kids went to sleep.
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