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I’m about to redo my website again, and I’ve been looking at a lot of websites for ideas. I’m starting a new series, and I’ve outgrown the format my techie savvy friend, Michelle Diener, and I created almost two years ago. In my current design, there’s no room for all my books, short stories, and even articles … [Read more…]
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 have gone through the … [Read more…]
Did March come in like a lion/out like a lamb for you? Or in like a lamb and out like a lion? Or … whatever! Here are some links for this lambish/lionish month of March… * More incentive for me to get off my butt and investigate Goodreads. Sigh. * Fifty Shades of Grey stuff. … [Read more…]
To write this article, I randomly opened my Writer’s Market to pages 540-541. Just so you know, pages 429-748 of the book form the section “Consumer Magazines.” Within that section, there are nearly 50 subsections. I randomly opened to a page with these magazine titles, which are under the subsection “Hobby & Craft”: -Quilters’ World … [Read more…]
You’ve heard the phrase “writer’s platform” but what does that actually mean? What many publishers know, from a marketing standpoint, is that writer’s whose names are recognizable typically sell more books than an unknown author the reader has to take a chance on. Charlaine Harris. Stephen King. Neil Gaiman. These authors have power behind their … [Read more…]