Category: Backend

• Fly Commentors – FLY

  I much like all Independent Artists, am really attached to the issue of net neutrality. Simply because I don’t have the budget to match companies like Netflix dollar for dollar so that I can access the same user base at equal speeds. So when I saw this video on youtube of course I had to…

  Y. K. Greene

  June 3, 2014

  Backend, Living the Writing Life, Marketing, Writing

  FCC, Fight, Net Neutrality

• Sorry Sorry

  I was deep in that dark place where all artists eventually go and sometimes return brandishing their freshly severed ear as a present. Climbing out of it involved burying myself in my work in a way that also didn’t make things worse, so it was kind of like trying to paint a self portrait with…

  Y. K. Greene

  May 21, 2014

  Backend, Living the Writing Life, Progress

  backend bs, blah blah, blather, facebook, pinterist, twitter

• Tumblr

  Big news flash and sounding of sirens. I have a new Tumblr account. That’s it. I honestly have no idea what I’m going to do with it or if it really has anything to do with my writing and should therefore be brought up here. Probably not. Though I did notice a lot of villain…

  Y. K. Greene

  February 11, 2014

  Backend, Living the Writing Life

  backend bs, blah blah, blather, blathering bs, Help, indie author, muse, musings, random, tumblr

• When To Pay, When NOT To Pay: Book Baby Update

  I’ve previously mentioned BookBaby here in the “you’d have to be crazy to pay these prices for this ‘service’ which you could do just as well yourself for free,” column of my When To Pay, When NOT to Pay series. Things have changed though so I suppose it’s worth a quick update. The primary sticking…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 23, 2014

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, Marketing, Writing

  backend bs, BookBaby, ebook, Formatting, indie author, When Not To Pay

• Book Interior Formatting: Dotting Your I’s and Crossing Your T’s – Final Checklist

  Formatting. Every time I finish a book and start the process of formatting it for print, I have to run around and look at at a thousand different pages trying to remember everything I know about formatting. Every time, I end up looking up half a dozen new pages because I’ve lost or misplaced my…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 14, 2014

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, When To Pay When Not To Pay, Writing

  Ash of Ambitions, backend bs, book covers, Formatting, indie author, When Not To Pay

• Draft2Digital

  By now if you’re an indie publisher, author or hoping to pursue independent publishing in one way or another – you’ve probably heard of Draft2Digital. But just in case you haven’t, Draft2Digital.com is a publishing platform like Smashwords’ infamous meat grinder in that Draft2Digital (D2D) lets you take your unpublished manuscript, format it for various…

  Y. K. Greene

  January 7, 2014

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, Writing

  Amazon, backend bs, basics, Createspace, Draft2Digital, ebook, Formatting, iBook, Koble, Nook, publishing, Revision, Smashwords, Tips, writing tips

• Book Interior Formatting: The Dreaded Page Number

  Formatting. Everytime I finish a book and start the process of formatting it for print, I have to run around and look at at a thousand different pages trying to remember everything I know about formatting. Everytime, I end up looking up half a dozen new pages because I’ve lost or misplaced my bookmarks. Everytime,…

  Y. K. Greene

  December 3, 2013

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, When To Pay When Not To Pay, Writing

  Ash of Ambitions, backend bs, book covers, Formatting, indie author, When Not To Pay

• Book Interior Formatting: Getting Fancy

  Formatting. Every time I finish a book and start the process of formatting it for print, I have to run around and look at at a thousand different pages trying to remember everything I know about formatting. Every time, I end up looking up half a dozen new pages because I’ve lost or misplaced my…

  Y. K. Greene

  October 31, 2013

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, When To Pay When Not To Pay, Writing

  Ash of Ambitions, backend bs, book covers, Formatting, indie author, When Not To Pay

• Book Interior Formatting: Chapter Headers

  Formatting. Every time I finish a book and start the process of formatting it for print, I have to run around and look at at a thousand different pages trying to remember everything I know about formatting. Every time, I end up looking up half a dozen new pages because I’ve lost or misplaced my…

  Y. K. Greene

  October 24, 2013

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, When To Pay When Not To Pay, Writing

  Ash of Ambitions, backend bs, book covers, Formatting, indie author, When Not To Pay

• Book Interior Formatting: Paragraphs

  Formatting. Every time I finish a book and start the process of formatting it for print, I have to run around and look at at a thousand different pages trying to remember everything I know about formatting. Every time, I end up looking up half a dozen new pages because I’ve lost or misplaced my…

  Y. K. Greene

  October 1, 2013

  Backend, Formatting, Living the Writing Life, When To Pay When Not To Pay, Writing

  Ash of Ambitions, backend bs, book covers, Formatting, indie author, When Not To Pay