Bad writing isn’t the only way to pull readers about out of a story. Bad formatting can as well. You put a lot of work into your story. You should present it as if it’s your pride and joy. I use InDesign to format my books. I know most people use Word. Some use Scrivener. Here…
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…
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! You know you’re bookish when a new shelf makes you happy. I was surrounded by books. They were in piles on the floor and on a table. I’ve shown you these pictures before. My shelves were overflowing. I hated searching for a book. I could never find it when…
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….
Yesterday, my Google Alerts feed for “publisher” and “publishing” was saturated with content about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Filing for Bankruptcy. An article in The Huffington Post: Books goes into a bit more detail. They make it all sound so harmless. “Houghton Mifflin said its restructuring has support from the vast majority of its stakeholders, and that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 by…
