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THE EDITORIAL PROCESS 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Readying a Book for Quality Self-Publication
These days, it seems everyone wants to self-publish a book. And that is both a tremendous freedom afforded to all who have the desire, and a scary proposition for a market now flooded with books and no process for quality control. This means a lot of people are publishing books who don’t necessarily know what part editors […]
The Evolution of a Book Cover A guided tour of the cover design process for self publishing authors
Writing is a lonely business. Authors spend the majority of the life of a manuscript in their own heads, fiction authors playing God to a cast of characters in situations of their own devising, and nonfiction authors gathering information they distill into a form that fits their own purpose and vision. As anyone who’s ever […]
YOU NEED A GOOD EDITOR: What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Publishing My Own Book – Part 1
[Guest post by Rob MacCavett]
Now that my novel, Flaming Harry Sweeney, is self-published, I can offer a hearty congratulations to none other than myself—and more importantly, advice on “What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started” to you fellow travelers and aspiring authors. First off, do […]
PUBLISHING YOUR WORK IS HARD WORK: What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Publishing My Own Book – Part 2
[Guest post by Rob MacCavett]
This blog is part of a series. For “What I Wish I’d Know Before I Started: Part 1” please click here.
And so as the sun slowly set over the peaks and valleys of composing a first book, I bid a fond farewell to creative writing as I prepared to travel […]
E-Book Formatting Considered Why quality code matters and automated e-book conversion tools may not be your best option
It wasn’t too long ago that the Kindle version of Neal Stephenson’s newest book Reamde had to be replaced. The reason? Customer complaints about errors in spelling, grammar, and formatting. After spending $16.99 to download an e-book, readers were justifiably miffed that it was riddled with mistakes. We imagine this resulted […]