Spiritual explorations and common sense
This post is part of a series on self-publishing. You’ll find links to all posts in this series in the first post. Try this: flip through a half dozen books from your bookcase. What do you notice? How do the pages look? What about the fonts? Are they intrusive, or do they match the subject of […]
This post is part of a series on self-publishing. You’ll find links to all posts in this series in the first post. You know that expression, “you can’t judge a book by its cover”? And yet we all do it when it comes to books. Your book cover is part of your marketing. You only […]
This post is part of a series on self-publishing. You’ll find links to all posts in this series in the first post. When you’ve completed a draft of your book that you feel good about, Ask people to review it. Decide how you want to manage your reviews. Pay attention to the feedback. Consider using a […]
The first thing, the very most essential thing, in publishing (self- or otherwise) is that you need to write a book. Oh, and by the way: once you publish a book, you are considered an expert on that topic. Yes, even if it’s a terrible book. So write it! All you need to do is make […]
You’ve written a book, or you want to write a book. You have two choices for publishing that book: You can query a publisher and hope they’ll accept your manuscript. You can self-publish. This is the first post in a series. In this post, I give a high-level overview of your choices for getting your […]
A friend and I are writing a screenplay together. This isn’t our first time writing screenplays, but it is our first time collaborating. Of course, our first question when we began was, what are our software options? What we were looking for: Because we are Windows users, the software must run on Windows (or in […]