There are days I am overwhelmed with the number of people who want me to give them money, and I don't mean regular life bills. I mean "experts" who are going to tell me how to sell more books. Who are going to make me a Kindle millionaire or get me 300,000 followers...
Author newsletters... a pain, right? You have to build the list, you have to house the list, you have to design newsletters, come up with content and then send your author newsletter. So much work... and so much techy type crap. Ugh. No, double ugh. But, yes, you...
The first step is having a manuscript that you feel good about – good enough that you would send it off to agents or editors. Self-Publishing Checklist: 1.) Hire an editor. I know you just went through multiple rounds of critiques. Trust me. It isn’t enough. You still...
A while back I did a post on how to format an ebook with Microsoft Word as your starting place. Since writing that I discovered a great tip that makes the process even easier, how to save italics when you have to strip all formatting from the original file. If you...
A year ago I decided to start self-publishing. It was a slow start, but like many other self-pubbed authors, the holiday season (December 2010 and January 2011) were very kind to me. I was excited. I told my writer friends. Some shared my enthusiasm some didn’t. Many...
Neesha Meminger's first novel, Shine, Coconut Moon, made the Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children list and was selected as one of the Top 100 Books of 2009 by the New York Public Library's Stuff for the Teen Age. Her second novel, Jazz In Love, released to rave...
Did the title throw you a bit? Over the past year there has been a lot of talk about the future of publishing--and if there IS a future in publishing--but no one seems to ask about the future of writing. Honestly? I think a lot of people think publishing and writing,...
People have opinions. If you are a writer, this should come as no surprise. What may surprise you is that there is no one way to format an ebook. There are a number of ways and a number of people who will swear their way is best. I, unlike many people, like Word. I...
