Tag: publishing
Writing on a deadline
I have achieved the American dream: One wife. One house. Two children. A dead-end soul sucking corporate job. My only legacy will be words. Writing on a deadline. After more than sixty years on this earth, much of that time spent writing meaningless drivel for others, I am finally writing…
On Staying Organized
I was planning on writing a nice long article about how important organization is when writing an eBook of over 300k words, especially if the action takes place over a long timeline, several continents, and involves hundreds of major and minor characters. Just trying to not repeat names is difficult,…
To Wait or Not
Writing is a hard thing. There is nothing easy about it. I now have the first book of my trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Calling, out on Amazon and Smashwords (inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog is still pending). I have the second book in the series, Any Tomorrow: The Curse,…
Publication!
Okay, maybe the exclamation point is a bit over the top, but Any Tomorrow: The Calling has been submitted to Smashwords and Kindle. It will be listed for $2.99. It will take a few days before the eBook shows up on Smashwords and even longer before it gets distributed to…
The eBook paradigm
Yesterday I made the observation that the publishing industry still seems driven by the paper paradigm and I can understand why. I have friends that go on and on about how they will never give up their stocks of paper books. They like the feel of them. They like the…
Final answer? Well, maybe not…
Okay, so it may sound like I’m back peddling, but comments by Catana to yesterday’s post gave me reasons to reconsider my plan for a whole series of books from my original novel. She provided links to a couple of blogs that suggested that the ideal length for a novel…
Is that your final answer?
Being an analytical sort of guy, I decided to see exactly where I stood should I decide to publish my novel as a series instead of one volume. The results didn’t really surprise me, because of the way I developed the story. As you can see, Books 4, 5, and…
ISBNs and Other Things
While I was watching the Kindle Video Tutorial last night, one of the things that I wondered about was the ISBN (International Standard Book Number). All books have them, but is it really necessary for my eBook? To find out the answer I went to www.isbn.org, one of 60 agencies…
Learning about Kindle
Like many of you, my weekends aren’t for writing, just the opposite. My weekends are full of working in the yard and catching up on all those things that tend to slide while I’m at work during the week. Spring is here, the weather is beautiful, and who wants to…
Getting the Hang of It
Well, I think I’m finally getting the hang of this blog. I’ve reworked the About page and added a Bio page. I’ve also added some tags that should make it easier for folks to find the blog. I’ve even had a couple of comments (okay, one was my wife), but…
