Tag: publish
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Setting up Your Book: The Basics
When I started into publishing, much of the whole process seemed so complicated and so difficult. One of the reasons I started this blog was because I was having a great deal of difficulty finding helpful websites to walk me through the “how to’s” of publishing. I thought I could be a support and help…
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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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Vanity or Subsidy Publishers?
In a previous blog, I wrote about The Self-Publishing World. In that blog, we took a moment to see what Self-Publishing has looked like over the years, especially in comparison with Traditional Publishers. In this blog, however, we want to explore something that is kind of half-way between a Traditional Publisher and full Self-Publishing. Self-Publishing…
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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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Setting Writing Goals Part II
In the first half of this blog, Setting Writing Goals Part I, we walked through the first three criteria I would recommend for goal setting: achievable, clear and definite. In this post we’ll explore the other two (considerate and satisfying) as well as walk through what this looks like in short and long term goal…
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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…
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How to Pick a Fabulously Fun Font Type for Your Book: Part I
Let me lay a truth bomb on you. This blog post is about Font Types. This is a truth bomb because it is likely devastating to your world view to hear someone suggest that Font Types actually matter. I am sorry for crushing your world. Font types do matter and there are accepted Font Types…
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Self-Publishing on a Budget
This blog is for the self-publisher on a budget. Maybe you’re like me. You’re about to publish and you’re trying to figure out the whole process. When I started into this process, I found it not only wonderful and exciting, but also confusing and irritating. I found there was a huge amount of information at…