Daniel Grotta & Sally Wiener Grotta

Today, as Daniel and I drove home from Philadelphia, we were listening to NPR's "All Things Considered," when they announced that someone from the literary world died -- not a writer but one of the most important publishers of our time.

I knew before they said any name that, sadly, one of my heroes – Barney Rosset – had passed away.

I first met Barney Rosset when (more…)

by Sally Wiener Grotta

Yesterday, at the Digital Book World conference among the various sessions I sat in on was “Doing It on Their Own: Self-Publishing Authors Find Success.” Three of the speakers were Bella Andre , Elle Lothlorien and Bob Mayer , all of whom have had enviable success in ePublishing. In fact, Bella earned seven figures last year. Yes, you read that correctly. She earned over a million dollars from self-publishing her e-Book romance novels. Yikes! (more…)