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Great Resources for Indie Publishing
I’ve talked to a few people in the last 48 hours who have mentioned they are reading this blog for ideas on how to publish their book. I figured a better way maybe instead of me doing all the writing,...
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Autographed copies now available
I have set-up a page to offer autographed copies of the book. Or can just click here and go straight to the purchase page.
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Chapter 1 of Kevin and the Three-Headed Alien
We’ve moved from the editing phase to the illustration phase of making Kevin and the Three-Headed Alien. Thanks to all my beta-editors and readers! This next book is an early chapter book. It’s...
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First illustration from “Kevin and the Three-Headed Alien”
The new book is not a full blown picture book. It is designed as an early chapter book, and I went with black and white illustration to save on the cost of printing the book. Hopefully making the...
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Are Music Labels and other publishers and middle men needed anymore?
Are music labels needed anymore? I don’t need one. I’m not a musician I did play trumpet in middle and school, but I hid in the second and third trumpet section for seven years. I know, you’re...
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Staying exculsive with Amazon for the time being
I am new to this whole self publishing thing. But I know few things seems to cause such debate as to the idea of staying exclusive with Amazon through their KDP select program. For the time being I am...
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Formatting a book requires two different files
I am finishing up Kevin and the Three-Headed Alien. The text is finished, what I am finishing is the formatting of the paperback and the Kindle version. This is the “publishing” part of the...
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Kevin and the Three-Headed Alien is now live
So the second book is now available on Kindle. Click on the picture to get the book at Amazon. To celebrate Kevin and the Seven Lions is free today and tomorrow. The paperback should be ready in a...
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Thinking about a book as an actual investment
In some ways it is never cool to say you write a book for money. You’re supposed to say you do it for the love of writing. Stephen King wrote in his On Writing memoir that he would still write even...
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Yet another selfish reason to publish part 2
I wrote earlier about a selfish reason to write. I got another one. Letters from fans. Even fans that were probably required to write the letters to keep their teacher happy. A teacher friend read...
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First Chapter from new book. Dolbin School for the Extraordinary.
The nice thing about doing this as an indie is that I can do this. Here is the first chapter of my new book which should be ready in October. It is a 26700 middle grade book. I just can’t seem to...
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AJ and I talked twice on Google. This time didn’t record because frankly I didn’t know what I was doing. After Youtube told us the video was removed for being too long, Youtube changed its mind and...
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Setting up your imprint and ISBN on Createspace
I’m setting up the paperback for the newest book, The Return of the Professor. Ever since my second book, Kevin and the Three-Headed Alien, I have used my own imprint and bought my own ISBN for $10....
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