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A Book Production Checklist for Indie Authors
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
An extract by Carla King, on BookWorks Site: Are you ready to upload your book for sale to the online retailers? Got all your front and back matter, images, fonts, and ISBNs? Use this checklist to make sure you’ve done everything you can to create…
EDITING 101: 10 – What Happens When You Die? – NOT in a Metaphysical sense…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others. Courtesy of Adirondack Editing What Happens When You Die? Wait, wait, don’t run away. This is not a religious post. This is a…
CreateSpace – Final Things to Check
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
So you’ve finally got your page numbers right. Check that you’ve Justified your text for your CreateSpace book. I know that some authors choose not to justify text in their eBooks (not me), but a paper book really must be justified or it’s going to look messy. Choose your…
Do you know how to publish an ebook with pictures?
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Using MS-Word? Success at last! When I loaded it up to KDP, everything worked! If you write children’s books or comic books, I’m sure you’ve heard of Kindle Kids’ Book Creator. This program is terrific. However, the program limits which electronic devices that can open and read the book.…
Free Writing Tool for November: Novlr
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
I just wanted to make a quick post to let you all know that in honor of National Novel Writing Month, Novlr, a novel writing app, will be offering its services freely for the entire month of November. Novlr has features for outlining, character development, sharing, grammar support, and organization,…
A Graphic Guide to Cemetery Symbolism – Infographic…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
From the Atlas Obscura site
Call to Arms: Year-long survey reveals which book advertiser offers best value for money
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Last year, I shared with you the result of my Call to Arms, on my very popular post, Book Marketing Results 2015. I now have collected enough data to follow up with this year’s results. Like last time, I knew most of the media mentioned, although there a few…
Stop Worrying About What Not to Write
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Tonya R. Moore Are you afraid of messing around with tropes? What about your plot? Is it too dark? Too light? Is your main character too perfect? Too flawed? Are you afraid to bore, perturb, or even disgust? Tell me the truth: how many articles did you read…
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