https://alanjacobson.com/ Official website of USA Today bestselling author Alan Jacobson Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://alanjacobson.com/reviews/spectrum-3/#comment-71 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 02:50:52 +0000 https://alanjacobson.com/?p=3047#comment-71 […] Spectrum has been called “Epic,” “shocking,” “ambitious,” and “exceptional.” I have no argument with any of these adjectives Reviews of Spectrum can be found here. […]

]]> https://alanjacobson.com/reviews/spectrum-3/#comment-70 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 02:45:12 +0000 https://alanjacobson.com/?p=3047#comment-70 […] Terrific news! We were just informed that Alan Jacobson’s new novel, Spectrum (released November 2014) has been named to Suspense Magazine’s “Best of 2014” list.A Note from Alan:Spectrum was a great deal of fun to write because it gave me an opportunity to explore Karen Vail’s character in new ways. It’s also an excellent entry point into the Vail series because it goes back in time to Vail’s first day on the job as an NYPD beat cop and moves forward through time to the present as she tracks a serial killer who’s terrorized Manhattan for decades. Spectrum also put me back on the streets of New York City and Queens, where I was born and raised. I knew where the skeletons were buried, so to speak, including the secrets the city has tucked away from the public. As usual, I take the reader behind the scenes to places he/she would never get a chance to go. Spectrum has been called “Epic,” “shocking,” “ambitious,” and “exceptional.” I have no argument with any of these adjectives Reviews of Spectrum can be found here. […]

]]> https://alanjacobson.com/writers-toolkit/do-the-royalties-of-traditional-publishing-make-cents/#comment-49 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:48:58 +0000 http://s417512529.onlinehome.us/?page_id=586#comment-49 […] For self-publishers, if the price is between $2.99 and $9.99 (£1.98 and £6.60) for a book, Amazon’s Kindle pays the publisher back 70% of royalties. If the book is over $9.99 the publisher will only receive 35% royalties (Amazon receives the other 65%). As the piece states, “This is a very clear incentive for authors to keep the price of e-books low… As an author, I feel a little at the mercy of Amazon”. If you’re a traditional paper publisher, selling through Amazon, you can expect them to take a 55% royalty cut. Once all is said and done, a $15 book sale in the US can leave an author with $1.63 (before tax), whereas selling through an actual book shop could leave an author with up to $3.48. And if that all seems a little confusing, with a little bit of digging you find that digital only publishers are having to come up with some pretty creative number games to make the e-books market at all profitable. […]

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