Tag Archive | Informative
WRITERS BEWARE – VANITY PUBLISHER ALERT: NOVUM PUBLISHING, UNITED P.C. PUBLISHER…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Novum Publishing is an Austria-based publisher that has expanded into several countries, including the UK and the USA. It also does business as United P.C. Publisher, and is incorporated in Florida as WSB Publishing Inc.. Novum describes itself as the “publisher…
How to Evaluate Small Publishers—Plus Digital-Only Presses and Hybrids – by Jane Friedman…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
In my annual chart, The Key Book Publishing Paths, there is one column that is most vexing and problematic for writers to navigate: small publishers. Into this category falls some of the most prestigious publishers you can imagine, that can boast of New York Times…
Nate’s Big List of eBook Market Analytic Tools – by, Nate Hoffelder…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on The Digital Reader site: Finding the right niche / genre / keywords to market your book, and then parsing the sales data once your ebook is on the market, can mean the difference between a best-seller book and one no one has ever heard…
Choose Your Free Book Writing Software For Your New Book – by Derek Haines…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Just Publishing Advice: Book writing software to help you be more creative and productive Many new writers and authors start out using a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. But word processors are not designed to help the creative writing process.…
How To Write A Story That Connects With Readers – by Alysia Seymour…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on The Creative Penn: Intro by Joanna Penn: Writing is a kind of telepathy. You write words on a page and at a different place and time, another human will read it and they will understand your mind at that moment. You aren’t there but…
Posting on KDP – by David Kudler…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on The Book Designer: Congratulations! You’ve finished your manuscript and gotten it into a format ready to be uploaded for sale. Now it’s time to get your ebook ready for sale. For most of us, Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP is the first and…
Two Good Tools for Making Multimedia eBooks – by Richard Byrne…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Practical Ed Tech site: Developing multimedia ebooks can be a good way for students to enhance portions of fiction and non-fiction stories that they write. By adding drawings, pictures, audio, and video students can further their points and explanations in ways places where just using…
Shorter Fiction is In! All About Novellas, Novelettes, Stories & Flash – by Mara Purl…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Anne R. Allen: Novellas, novelettes, and serial fiction are no longer”old fashioned.” Do you know what George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds have in common? They’re…
A (not so) Short History of Fake Reviews on Amazon by Iola Goulton…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Christian Editing site: When I first started blogging, back in September 2011, there were almost no restrictions to reviewing on Amazon. Someone could create a buyer account on Amazon, buy something, and 24 hours later they could review any product on any Amazon site.…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 