Category: Living the Writing Life
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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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Feeling Lost Little Girl?
Sometimes as I struggle to wrap my mind around the whole process of being a novelist, I embark on learning something new and interesting and vital (that I’ll certainly master because I’m so frelling awesome) and find myself totally – lost.
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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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Overwhelmed
Every now and again everything I’m trying to do catches up with me in bad ways. I’d describe the feeling that results as drowning, like waking up already underwater. The depth doesn’t have to be much but that kind of blind, breathless panic – that’s just about right. Let’s see, there’s the writing which anyone…
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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…
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Naming Names: Novels
I don’t know about the rest of you but I love a good name. Fanciful ones, really apt ones, names that sneak up with new meaning later on in the tale – I love a good name. Which means I’m also certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that I almost always fail at finding…
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When To Pay, When Not to Pay: Domain Names
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…
Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather 