Amazon’s Kid’s Book Creator makes it easier for the average Joe to create illustrated children’s eBooks (Kindle) to upload directly to Amazon. In the previous post, I showed the main difference between a fixed layout and a “regular” or standard book layout. We’ll now get into how to prepare your files in order to build […]
From Tree to Book and Back Again – A Sustainability Tale
A publishing company in Argentina, Pequeño Editor, is producing a children’s book that, if planted, will grow into a tree. The acid-free paper used to make the children’s book is infused with seeds from the Jacaranda tree. All of the book, including the paper and glue, is biodegradable. When the book is buried in the dirt […]
Writefull – A Companion App to Improve Your Writing
Writefull is a companion app that can be used in any writing tool from MS Word to Gmail. It helps you to improve your writing by analyzing text that you select and comparing it to thousands of documents in Google Books, Google Scholar, and Google Web databases. You can then use that analysis to adapt […]
To Trend or Not To Trend – Part 1, the Fiverr Project
Write a book in 48 hours. Sounds easier than it is. The process taken was simple, or so I thought. Just write a silly story, find an illustrator and be published in 48 hours. Now I don’t know about you, but I’m a little more picky about my writing. The first hurdle: Come up with […]
Lightning Source offers Duplex Printing inside the cover
Duplex printing isn’t new, but it is new to the Print on Demand Industry. Ingram Lighting Source has announced (May 27, 2015) the option for printing inside book covers. Remember Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books, where the inside spread (inside cover and first page) contained an illustration? What an impact your book could have when […]
Draft – An online tool for revision management and collaboration
Draft is a writing program that emphasizes simplicity, version control, and collaboration. I found Draft while I was looking for a program that allowed me to easily save and access specific versions of my writing project as I was working on it. Draft was created by a programmer looking for an ideal work space in […]
JUNE 2015 #unrulystories Picture Prompt ~ “Boys in Flight”
Tell us YOUR #unrulystories and you may be featured in next month’s Newsletter. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED: June 1 – 30 (midnight) Boys in Flight / June 2015 Below is a wonderful image that evokes a lot of imagination. What do you see? Future pilots? Boys longing for their father? Their mother? The skies the limit. […]
Twitter Cards: Twitter Marketing
Last year, Twitter introduced a “powerful creative ad unit called the Twitter Card — a new way for advertisers to easily surface website content within a Tweet and drive relevant traffic to any page of their site, such as their home page, product page, or an important blog post.” Early testing in April 2014 showed […]
EditMob.com ~ a crowd-sourced typo correction project
Typos. The mere mention of the word is a writers nightmare. We pour over our work, hire editors, send to every family and friend we know and yet these horrible beasts seem to randomly crop up out of thin air becoming an embarrassingly glowing emblem on an otherwise pristine page. So what is an author […]