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...soft-spoken 34-year-old, Hou studied Chinese literature while at university in Beijing and worked as an editor at Sina.com, a major Chinese Web portal, for seven years before starting Shanda in 2005. He describes the company - in which budding writers self-publish their work without having to be vetted by editors - as not only a profitable business, but also an extension of his own literary aspirations. "I believe everyone can be a writer," he says. "Especially now, when the Internet really has become part of our lives...
When Genova had reached the end of her unsuccessful search, she told the last literary agent who rejected her, "I've had enough of this. I'm going to go self-publish it." "That was by e-mail," she says. "He picked up the phone and called me within five minutes and said, 'Don't do that. You will kill your writing career before it starts...
...strip and looking to apply lessons he’s learned about satire to his future ventures, even if he has no idea what those ventures might be. IN YOUR FACEAfter graduating from Oberlin College in 1994, Rees moved to the Boston area and began to create and self-publish comics. He first sold his work in Million Year Picnic, a Harvard Square comic book shop.For years, he was an obscure, local phenomenon. Then, as the saying goes, Sept. 11 changed everything.Rees began producing “Get Your War On” (GYWO) on Oct. 9, 2001. It used...
...Sometimes when a person is just starting out, it’s very hard to get novel, ground-breaking work published. So, it isn’t a sin to self-publish at the beginning of a career,” Kosslyn wrote in an e-mail. “However, if the work is solid, it will survive peer-review, and eventually be published elsewhere. I believe this is what the future has in store for Professor Ben-Shahar’s work...
Fern E. Reiss ’85, CEO of PublishingGame.com and Expertizing.com, said she would not recommend that professors self-publish because they would not be vetted in the same way than if they had worked with a trade publisher or more preferably, an academic publisher...