Category: Backend
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Crafting Blurbs
Now that “Ash of Ambitions” is so close to publication, I’ve got little else on the brain! So there will probably be a lot of posts about the final stages of epublication. Today’s topic? How to craft the “Product Description,” or as I prefer to call it ‘blurb,’ for your brand new ebook!
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Creating A Buffer
I’ve been horribly inconsistent lately. It’s finally winter in the South and I’m getting a cold draft through the hole in the wall that led to one hell of a chest cold I’m still battling. I’ve also got one book to push out the door in the next couple of weeks and another book in…
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New Book Cover!
So I’ve had you all on the edge of your seats with anticipation but it’s time for the big reveal! For the last few days I’ve been mired deep, deep within the awes of photo manipulation and permissions and html formatting – to create a new book cover for The Uncertainty of Death.
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So You Want to Make Your Own Book Covers – The Nitty Gritty Part 2
I promised I’d be back with some more useful hands on tips for creating your own book covers; here you were, doubting me, weren’t you. The following post will likely be broken into two pars and feature some NSFW bits.
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So You Want to Make Your Own Book Covers – The Nitty Gritty Part 1
I promised I’d be back with some more useful hands on tips for creating your own book covers; here you were, doubting me, weren’t you. The following post will likely be broken into two pars and feature some NSFW bits. Currently I’ve been working with my graphic designer to redesign my book cover, trying to…
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Time Ticking Away
Are you feeling a little overwhelmed? Feeling like you’re working all day and half the night and only getting half of what you need to get done to be a successful self publisher? That feeling of being stretched a little thin, apparently, is normal.
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So You Want To Make Your Own Book Covers
What seems like ages ago I came down on the side of shilling out the extra bucks for a professional looking bookcover. Unless of course you think you’ve got serious skills and really think you can go it alone. This post is for the writer who also has awesome skills in image editing. Tools of…
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Goals
Every now and again I feel it’s vital to recite my goals and put them all out there for the world to see. That way I can use the goad of the probable humiliation involved in failing to reach these goals to keep myself slogging through the jumbled muck of all the voices in my…
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When To Pay, When Not to Pay: Book Covers
Since I’m on this great self-pub journey with absolutely no savings or income to utilize, there’s a constant struggle to gauge what is a worthwhile expense and what isn’t. How much can I really afford to pay on this book cover? Since I can only muster up so much cash, should I do it myself…
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The Eternal Problem
Shyness. One thing you learn really fast when you’re trying to make it as a self published author – it doesn’t pay to be shy. Or lazy for that matter, my sainted mother has been known to complain that I actually work more now than I ever have before, though I bring home considerably less…
Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather 