Category: books

Self-publishing vs. Kindle Scout

Self-publishing vs. Kindle Scout

Today is a fairly momentous day for me. I got my 3rd round of editing back from my content editor and finished it this afternoon. Since then, I’ve been formatting the book using the Kindle Templates, testing it on the Kindle Previewer, and getting all the data into KDP. Yet… I haven’t pulled the trigger yet.…

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Designing my book cover

Designing my book cover

I thought I’d finished my book cover design months ago. I liked it, and it had a nice feel. And while I didn’t show it to anyone, I was confident that it would work well. I do design work for a living, but not graphic design. That said, I didn’t consider what audience I was designing…

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Picking a title

Picking a title

Admittedly, I thought I’d picked out a title a long time ago. This last week, I realized that I hated my title and it wasn’t particularly interesting. I had a couple of options, but none that I really liked. In fact, I thought it was going to be VERY hard to come up with more.…

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Seven years and a finish line

Seven years and a finish line

When I heard about Amanda Hocking, and later Hugh Howey, writing a book that others would read became possible. I search Amazon for a book on how not to suck at writing and found Immediate Fiction by Jerry Carver. Within those page, he disclosed a dangerous truth that the fat dead guy from Ratatouille would…

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