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Category Archives: Indie Publishing
What You May Not Have Known About, “The Martian”.
If you are one of the vast populous who has either read or watched the movie version of The Martian, by Andy Weir, you already know it’s a very entertaining story. But what you may not have known is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Weir, Changes to Publishing, The Martian
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It’s Alive!
The Dragon Rustler is available for purchase! eBook versions are available on: Amazon for (Kindle), and on iTunes (for iPad and iPhone). You can get the Print version on Amazon. The links are also available on the right-hand side of … Continue reading
Posted in Author Blog, Dyslexia, Indie Publishing, Self Publishing
Tagged Book Launch, Book Publishing, Indie Publishing
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Day Twenty Nine – Thirty: Read, Writing, and (getting into a) Rhythm
Okay, so the title is a stretch. It’s hard to be clever sometimes. While reading through the book, I found a couple of weird punctuation errors I need to correct, and since I need to change something anyhow, I decided … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog Posting, Series, The Dragon Riders, The Dragon Rustler
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Day Twenty Eight: I Actually Wrote a Book
After sending an email to CreateSpace at 7:50 pm informing them my book hadn’t arrived as promised… It arrived at 7:58 pm. Normally I would feel like a dork, but It’s my book… my baby (With a gustation period greater … Continue reading
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Tagged Cover Design, CreateSpace, New Book, Proof Copy
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Day Twenty One – Twenty Four: Corrections and More Corrections
Where to begin? I first heard back from KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) and they approved the file, but when I downloaded a copy and tested it on a couple of devices (Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, Android tablet) it didn’t look … Continue reading
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Tagged Calibre, CreateSpace, eBook, ePub, MOBI, Scrivener
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Day Nineteen: Off to Create Space
Just sent the file off to CreateSpace… Yay! Then uploaded the digital version to Kindle Direct Publishing… Yay! 10 minutes later, found an error in what I sent to CreateSpace… Boo! Okay, so no biggie. I have to get a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cover Design, CreateSpace, Finding errors
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Day Eighteen: Getting Down To Business
This is actually “Part 3” of the CreateSpace thread, but the title was too long and this topic is more about the back office activities I did this week. I often classify days as either a “Two-steps-forward”, or “One-step-back” kind … Continue reading
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Tagged Copyright, ISBN, Starting a Business
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Day Seventeen: Submitting to CreateSpace (Part 2)
After catching a couple of minor formatting errors, I decided to slow the whole process down a bit and make sure everything looks perfect. I’m not too satisfied with the formatting of the first line of each chapter. Originally I … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapter beginnings, Formatting
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Day Sixteen: Submitting to CreateSpace (Part 1)
After working on the print file for a week now, it’s ready for submission to CreateSpace. Based on the advice by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch in their very helpful book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe InDesign, CreateSpace
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