Tag: Indie Publishing
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Setting up Your Book: Pressbooks Part II
In the first part of this blog, I introduced Pressbooks as a option for producing your ebook files for publishing. My local library pointed me in the direction of Pressbooks and once I started to use it, I found Pressbooks to be an excellent means of producing epub and mobi files. To check out Part…
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February Book Update
It’s February! I want to give a quick update on how the book publishing process has been going! It’s been exciting to realize that we are getting close to the date when Book One comes out, but there’s some other stuff going on as well. Over the last year, my health has been undergoing some…
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January Book Update
It’s January! Depending on where you live, you may not be experiencing the level of cold and snow we have been experiencing. Then again, you might be getting more snow and having much colder temperatures. Here in southwestern Ontario, it’s been cold. I have to admit, I prefer June. I wanted to give a quick…
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Setting up Your Book: Front and Back Matter
A short while ago, I posted a blog called, Setting up Your Book: the Basics. We looked at trim size, margins, fonts and more. Today, I want to take a look at Front Matter and Back Matter. Quick explanation of what the Matter is Okay, any editors reading that title are currently having a conniption.…
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Working with Your Proof Copy
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a blog, but with Christmas and New Years and snow and cold and more… I’ve had to step back just a bit. It’s time, now, to get back to posting blogs. One of the things I’ve been able to do over the Christmas Season is to proof…
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Editing with Beta Readers
This is part two in my series on Alpha and Beta Readers. As I post them, I will update the blogs to link them together. Until then, check out the first blog on Alpha Readers! Part One: Editing with Alpha Readers Part Two: Editing with Beta Readers Part Three: The Questions I Ask My Alpha…
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November Book Update
This past month I have been pretty silent on the blogging front. I’ve been focusing in on NaNoWriMo as I’ve written the rough draft of the third book in my series (rough draft finished!) and cleaning up the first book in my series for publishing in April. I’m planning on posting a series soon on…
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Telling People You’ve Written a Book
If you’re publishing a book… you need to tell people you’re publishing a book. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. If it does, sit down, take a deep breath and think it through. There are, perhaps at times, reasons to publish under a pseudonym. In that case, maybe you don’t want to tell…
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Five Ways to Tell You Do Not Want Feedback
Feedback is hard to take. Let’s be honest about that. When you pour your heart and soul into your writing, you want it to be absolutely perfect right out of the gate. The idea that someone could find something less than stellar with what you’ve written is upsetting to say the least. Maybe even earth…
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How to Pick a Fabulously Fun Font Type for Your Book: Part II
Alright, for Part II of our look at picking a fabulously fun font for your book, we want to consider Monospace fonts as well as talk a bit about Cover Fonts and then put this all together. Â I hope the truth bomb that you have been hit with (that fonts actually matter) has been a…