Self-Publishing Tips, Tutorials and Guides
MrsP.com announced today the winners of the 3rd Annual National Kids’ Writing Contest. Young authors from 27 states participated in the 2011 Be a Famous Writer Contest, a nationwide creative-writing competition for children held every … [Continue reading]
VERSION 3.0 of my Ebook Formatting Kit is here! will be launching the end of January with a dramatic price increase. It is chock full of tips, guides, resources including: non-fiction, poetry and advanced CSS coding. It will also come with a pre-made … [Continue reading]
Marketing isn’t promotion … it isn’t advertising and it isn’t a big PR campaign. It’s funny how the word has taken on a plethora of meanings it really shouldn’t have. Marketing does not gain you direct sales. It doesn’t get you in the newspaper and … [Continue reading]
Poetry is a difficult form to layout consistently across the board. Every e-reader seems to like and dislike different aspects of HTML coding. After a lot of testing I found a process that displays sell for the Kindle, Kindle Previewer, Kindle Reader … [Continue reading]
Kindle Singles are “compelling ideas expressed at their natural length.” In other words these are writings that do not fall into the conventional space for magazine or print – typically 5,000 to 30,000 words. Essentially it is a short short story, … [Continue reading]
It happens to the best of us. We ALL miss errors in our writing. Some are basic misspellings, others are based on our assumption of the subject matter without double-checking. The most embarrassing error I made was misspelling my own name -- how bad … [Continue reading]
"Brands are valuable, but rarely established without quality writing and/or an effective platform." Brands are difficult to create. Companies spend a lot of money developing a brand -- the look, the product and the catch phrase. ("Just Do It!" … [Continue reading]