The things you learn when you have to put a book together. Chains of the Sciell is coming out May 26. To start all the heavy pre-publishing buzz and make it available for preorder, I’d like the book to be done by March. This’ll be the second time I’m putting together a print book in…
I love ebooks, but there’s nothing like holding your first book. I finally finished the layout of The Sciell and uploaded it into CreateSpace. I had to upload and re-upload it because first, my interior was rejected and then my cover was rejected likes three time. Finally, everything is done…almost. I just got the proof….
That whole don’t judge a book by its cover only applies to people. You can totally judge a book by its cover. I do it all the time. I’ve bought enough fantasy and horror novels to know that the covers for the books I like have a certain style. If a book doesn’t have that…
A question posted on a Google+ community got me thinking. When is the best time to release a book? Yes, you can publish your book when it’s done, but the release date is also a marketing tool. You want it to be on a day you can get the most sales. You’ve probably heard of…
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I usually don’t blog on this day, but I had to break tradition. I’ve been on the look out for new books on writing fight scenes. For a long time now, there have only two of them: Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall and Write The Fight Right by Alan Baxter. I just read at Book View…
As I said in the previous post, Total Awesomeness…Well, Not Total, I attended my first publishing conference last week. This post’s title is a quote from bestselling author Guy Kawasaki during his session Author- Publisher- Entrepreneur. First of all, I have to give another shout out to Evernote. I took all my notes in this…
My beta readers gave me some great comments. Since I have a better understanding of where my series is going, I’m editing my first novel differently this time around. If I come across a pivotal scene, I make a note of it as reference for the series. This book brought up a lot of questions. I’m writing them down…
I’m a resource nerd- new information makes me happy. Through a blog, I found out about The Alliance of Independent Authors. Seriously. How couldn’t I have known about this? I make a point of knowing all the great publishing resources out there, at least the ones that apply to me. The Alliance of Independent Authors is the first non-profit organization…
