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CreateSpace vs. Ingram Sparks: Choosing The Best Printer Service For Your Books

Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As you know, most of my books are available in print format as well. I use Createspace for this but have often flirted with the idea of using Ingram Sparks. How can one choose? I recently stumbled on a great post by Giacomo Giammatteo on the Self-publishing advice blog. Giammatteo has posted a…

Chapter 13 Dead and Gone

Originally posted on Sunset 4 A Carson Reno Mystery:
Dead and Gone                          It had been almost a week since someone murdered Munro Chalmers in ‘Room 32’ of the ‘Humboldt Motel’.  This Friday, just like last Friday, was going to be an exciting day at the ‘Humboldt Motel’; I had planned it that way.  To help…

Using Vellum for formatting e-books

Originally posted on Ruth Nestvold – Indie Adventures:
Ever since I started going indie and publishing books on my own rather than through a traditional publisher, I have been using Scrivener to create the epub and mobi files required by most retailers. Okay, not ever since — my very first experimental attempts were uploading Word…

The Trouble with Series – Guest Post…

The Trouble with Series – Guest Post…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
One of the best things to do as an indie author is to write a series. People like reading them, and it makes your author page look much better when you have more than one title to your name. For most of us, writing our…

7 Tips for Naming Your Characters

7 Tips for Naming Your Characters

Originally posted on J. Young-Ju Harris:
Naming characters is an important part of character creation. It determines how your characters will be known moving forward. Some people find this aspect of the character creation phase to be very easy or mostly intuitive. For those of you who don’t, here are some of my suggestions on…

Self Publish! It Can’t Get Any Worse

Self Publish! It Can’t Get Any Worse

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