Tag: #selfpublishing
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Book Formating 102
Outsourcing/semi-outsourcing your book formatting. You can pay to have your book formatted. We don’t know the industry rate. Websites such as fiverr and Reedsy will provide book publishing contacts. We have heard good and bad reviews from people who use Fiverr. We haven’t heard anything negative about Reedsy (except for costs). The maxim “You pay…
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Book Formatting 101
You’ve written an amazing book, and you’ve spent hours and then more hours doing all the stages of editing. You’ve received feedback from critique groups, and they are itching to buy a finished copy, but how do you get your book from writing to formatted? There are three options. We’ll name them here but cover…
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Types of Book Publishing
Ever heard of Low Content books? In general there are three types of book publishing: Low, Medium, and High Content books Low content boos Low-content books are like our line of quilt planners, journals, or colouring books. There are very limited words (think title page and maybe some section headers) and multiple repeated pages or…
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Improving the craft of writing
Writing anything, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, or other, is best done by writing. How do you know if your writing is good? How do you improve the craft of writing? We applaud everyone who has self-published. However, the advantage of traditional publishing over self-publishing is that traditional publishers use editors and acquisition staff and work with…
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A brief look at building your reader market.
Whilst you are busy editing your book, you need to be building your reader base. This is an incredibly huge topic, with plenty of dedicated groups and websites. Kindlepreneur, Mark Dawson, and Johanna Penn all have plenty of marketing information. Facebook sites can be informative (but there tends to be conflicting information because different genres…