Publetariat Vault to Help Indie Authors Sell Rights

April Hamilton, the author and entrepreneur behind the Publetariat online community for indie authors, has announced a new subscription service called Publetariat Vault that will allow indie authors to advertise the rights they're looking to sell.

I first covered Publetariat here back in February, and in this time the site has served as a useful aggregator of indie author-related news, views and commentary, including several posts that originally appeared here on the Smashwords blog.

April's new service, which is accepting authors now and will launch in early July, will allow authors to share sales and other information about their books so agents, commercial publishers, film & television producers, etc. can identify books and associated rights for possible acquisition.

The service will cost $10.00 a month. If you're among the first 300 authors to sign up, you can try the service for three months risk free, for free, before you decide whether or not continue. Learn more at Publetariat Vault.

Publetariat: New Community for Indie Authors

Author April Hamilton, a long time friend of Smashwords and advocate for indie authors, has launched Publetariat, a new online community for self-published authors. Check it out and get involved.

April thinks it's time the word "indie" carry the same street cred for authors as it does for indie musicians and filmmakers. It's a goal I share as well.

While other online communities such as AbsoluteWrite serve authors who aspire to go the mainstream publishing route, Publetariat will serve authors who aspire to remain indie.

From the Publetariat site:

Why Publetariat?

The indie author tide is rising. Every day there are new stories of authors taking their careers into their own hands and choosing, not resorting to, self-publication and forming their own imprints.

Even the struggling titans of the mainstream publishing industry can't ignore it anymore. There's an increasing level of genuine interest in, and respect for, self-publishing and small, independent imprints on websites and in publications that would've sneered at the very idea a decade ago. For far too long, indie authors and small imprints have fought an uphill battle against an industry and a community of writers determined to marginalize us and our efforts. Now, as indie authorship stands poised to become the 'next big thing' in publishing, our time has come at last.

Several indie authors and indie author advocates, myself included, are supporting the project:

Bill Aicher - author

Alan Baxter - Blade Red Press

Mark Coker - Smashwords

Nick Daws - freelance writer/consultant

April L. Hamilton - author

Jude Johnson - Scorched Hawk Press

Kallysten - Alinar Publishing

Hugh McGuire - Bookoven, Librivox, earideas & datalibre.ca

Joanna Penn - The Creative Penn

Dana Lynn Smith - The Book Marketing Maven

Joshua Tallent - Kindleformatting.com

Zoe Winters - author

Visit Publetariat today at http://www.publetariat.com/index.php

If you're attending the Tools of Change Conference next week in New York, I invite you to attend the panel I'm moderating Tuesday titled "The Rise of ebooks." April is one of our distinguished panelists.