Tag: Publishing
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Where Do I Get an ISBN?
In this series of blogs, we have covered: 1) The Ins and Outs of ISBNs 2) Why you should get your own ISBN 3) Where you get your ISBN (this blog) 4) How to get an ISBN in Canada So in this blog (part 3), we want to take a look at where you can…
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Reasons to Get Your Own ISBN
In the first part of this blog, we explored some of the basics of ISBNs. In this blog, I want to explore why I would recommend you get your own, personal ISBN (as opposed to going without one or using a freely provided one by a printer/distributor/publisher). Later, we’ll look at where you get an…
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Book Launch Teams Part I
Book launch teams are a fun part of the publishing process! I know everyone doesn’t do a Book Launch Team, but I would highly recommend it. In this series, want to post a little bit about Book Launch Teams (BLTs) and my experience with them. You can gain so much from a Book Launch Team…
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Arestana: The Key Quest available for sale!
Hey everyone, Just a quick blog today! I’m excited to announce that my young teen/middle-grade novel “Arestana: The Key Quest” is now up for sale! It’s been a lot of work, but it’s exciting to see it hit the shelves (so to speak). I encourage you to go check it out! You can find the…
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Setting up Your Book: Pressbooks Part I
I’ve really struggled with figuring out how to start this blog. I usually don’t struggle this much with the start of a blog, nor do I normally have to rewrite quite this much. I don’t know what’s up. Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m just going to start into the blog with the following…
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March Book Update
I’ve been a little slow on posting blogs as of late. I have a bunch of them nearly ready to go, but nearly ready is not ready enough. 🙂 As I mentioned last month, my health has been undergoing some major renovations. I’m still not sure what it’ll look like in the end, but at…
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To Pseudonym or not to Pseudonym
A Pseudonym by any other sweet would be named smell. No, that’s not how it goes. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. That’s it. But then again, we wouldn’t know it was a rose, would we? We would call it something else. I don’t know. It’s starting to be silly. However,…
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Interview with an Editor Part III
A while back I was reading a really great book. I won’t mention the name of the book because it was terrible. I loved reading that terribly great book because I wanted to support the author. He was very young and this was the first book he had written. I love it when someone steps…
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Interview with an Editor Part I
Editors be kinda important. Ahem… I mean, Editors are important. As I’ve been blogging on the topic of Self-Publishing, I’ve had the privilege of rubbing digital shoulders with a few editors and I thought it would be helpful for self-publishers to read a little bit from an editor’s perspective. Because of this, I’m looking to…
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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.…