Review: Incredible Info, but Be the Monkey More Up to Date
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2012
This book is a collection of Joe Konrath's blog entries from about 2005 to mid-2010. It's an incredible collection of writing advice and the nitty gritty facts behind the publishing industry. I've never heard of any writer working as hard to promote his book as Konrath. On his own he went to hundreds of bookstores to introduce himself and sign his books.In fact, the one weakness of this book is that it's now history. Konrath has joined the self-publishing revolution. Much of the material here is now simply more arguments for self-publishing. Yet this book stops at about the point Konrath's Kindle sales of his novels were starting to take off.Therefore, I'd recommend following this one up with his and Barry Eisler's Be the Monkey, which is about the value of self-publishing on the Kindle.However, much of the information in this book is about writing, and that is extremely valuable for anyone not yet a seasoned professional -- and most all of them could learn self-promotion from Konrath.