Since this is what I’ve been doing lately I figured I’d write another blog about it, but this one is going to be more technical. The first thing I want to tell you – something I learned the hard way – is that typesetting for print and for ebook are 100% different. No joke. If...Read More

This is mostly for the self-pub crowd, so if you are planning on trad. publishing then this will maybe be interesting, but it won’t be as important to you as it is to folks who are doing this on their own. Typesetting is one of the most overlooked bits to putting a book together. Everyone...Read More

Since this has become something I’ve been feeling out lately as I research for the launch of a book I’ve been working on (not mine), I thought I might share some of the lessons I’ve learned studying marketing. While not every author makes these mistakes they’re some of the ones I see over and over....Read More

Every author’s dream is to have their book on the shelves of bookstores around the world. While we all might be happy with e-book there’s something about the idea of walking into a bookstore and seeing your cover on an endcap makes our stomachs fill with butterflies. It’s exciting. However, it’s extremely dangerous in ways...Read More

This is likely to be a controversial post because I am going to say a lot of things about the industry that I think are hard truths. Truths that suck to hear, but they are things I think need to be said. Despite pundits saying it, traditional publishing isn’t about to die. It isn’t “dying”....Read More

RANT INCOMING. THAR SHE BLOWS. So I have a Twitter account I use regularly to connect with other writers for both social and business reasons. Part of it has to do with platform building, part of it has to do with social interaction. We all know I never leave my desk, so Twitter is the...Read More

In the publishing industry we deal with a lot of contracts. Contracts for editing, contracts for publishing, contracts for cover art, contracts for typesetting… We handle a lot of them. It’s actually a big part of the business that doesn’t fit the romantic idea of writing in our underpants while drinking coffee from a mug...Read More

I’ve answered this question a dozen times over the last few months. Frequently enough that I felt it warranted a blog post, anyway. I keep seeing folks who ask the question of whether or not they should have a separate pen name for every genre they write in, and every time I see it, it...Read More

I’ve been being bad and hanging out on Twitter lately when I probably should be doing other things. I keep telling myself that it’s market research, but mostly it’s cat pictures and blogs about writing. Now that I’m blogging about it I can at least pretend it was time well spent. Everywhere I turn on...Read More

I apologize for the late post, everyone. I was battling with a migraine yesterday that wouldn’t let me function. I’m still feeling the after-effects today, but I’m working on destroying it with copious amounts of ibuprofen and caffeine.   Typesetting is something most self publishing writers know virtually nothing about. The majority of them think...Read More