MF GALAXY

WHY AND HOW TO START A MAILING LIST, CREATE AN AUTHOR CENTRAL PAGE, THE SWEET SPOT FOR EBOOK PRICING, WHEN AND WHY TO OFFER DISCOUNTS, AND WHY BUNDLING WITH OTHER AUTHORS FOR 99 CENTS CAN EARN YOU THOUSANDS Last fall I was one of the guests of honour at Pure Spec, one of E-Town’s most important conventions, and because I was giving a talk, I missed a session that people were raving about. They said that an indie author who’d had major sales was handing out her success secrets for free! Being an indie author myself and also very, very cheap, I immediately cursed myself for having missed such an excellent chance, and then remembered, Dude, you’ve got a podcast! You can ask anybody for anything! So I asked Krista D. Ball to tell me and thus you how she went from a low-selling epic fantasy series to being able to pay her mortgage from book sales. LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Krista Ball is not only a charming and delightful interviewee, she’s also the author of 13 novels and n...

PULITZER-NOMINATED AUTHOR ON THE ROMAN PRO-DEMOCRACY STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ELITISTS WHO ASSASSINATED CAESAR, AND THE STRIKING PARALLELS BETWEEN THE POLITICAL CRISIS OF ANCIENT ROME AND THE MODERN USA Political Scientist Michael Parenti is a tireless activist-academic who has taught at many colleges and universities inside and outside the United States. He is a celebrated lecturer whose humour and anecdotes have delighted audiences across the world, in person and via broadcast. Hundreds of his articles have appeared in scholarly journals, political periodicals, and popular magazines and newspapers. Michael Parenti is author of more than 20 books on the power of media, political elites, the wealthy, and US imperialism. His writings have been translated into 17 languages and include: Profit Pathologies and Other Indecencies   The Face of Imperialism, and   To Kill a Nation, The Attack on Yugoslavia His 2003 history The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A...

Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, which produces the nationally-syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin that uncovers bias in US corporate journalism. Her articles have appeared in sources such as In These Times, and she frequently contributes articles on media, racist coverage, and labour struggle to FAIR’s magazine Extra! She’s also testified before a US Senate subcommittee that funds the American network PBS. In today’s episode of MF GALAXY, Jackson discusses: How FAIR and CounterSpin pick the stories to investigate about where corporate media got it wrong or didn’t get it at all Why the people at FAIR and CounterSpin object to being called “journalists” The reasons why US media stopped reporting about the US bomber who killed Canadian troops Why corporate news censors itself How US corporate news made the case for torture, and Why right-wing cranks dominate US talk radio and whether US radio progressives need...