Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for May, 2013. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books.
A collection of outstanding articles recently posted to blogs, your reading here will be richly rewarded.
See the end of this post for links to submit your blog posts for the next carnival, or for participating Bloggers and Featured Bloggers to grab your sidebar badges. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Featured Posts
August Wainwright presents How to Write Better Prose According to Ernest Hemingway posted at August Wainwright, saying, “Love him or hate him, Hemingway had a way with words. Today we have six tips on how to write better fiction prose from Ernest Hemingway. Learn how to write a more true book from one of the greatest American writers of all time.”
Nina Amir presents How to Craft a Successful Title for Your Book posted at Write Nonfiction NOW!, saying, “A book title can make or break a book. Plus, today the title can mean the difference between being found on line or not. Learn how to write a title for your book.”
Belinda Pollard presents Twitter for Writers: Two golden rules posted at Small Blue Dog Publishing, saying, “There is so much conflicting advice about how writers should use Twitter, including long lists of do’s and don’ts. In the end, it boils down to two Golden Rules for how to be a good Twitter citizen and make the most of your Twitter presence.”
Book Design and Production
David Bergsland presents Does quality really matter in the new publishing paradigm? posted at The Skilled Workman, saying, “I’ve been noticing more indicators that quality book design still makes a difference. My fastest growing sales group is bundles of downloadable full-color PDFs of ePUBs with fonts embedded—all DRM-free. I don’t think that a coincidence. What do you think? What do you expect from a $2 novel? Or a $3 non-fiction book? Not much, I’ll bet. The reaction to Joel’s Word templates gives us an indicator also. Of course, I’m not sure about letting them really believe that Word can produce professional design—but that’s another argument, for another day.”
Kate Tilton presents Five Best Practices for QA’ing your eBook posted at BiblioCrunch Self Publishing Blog, saying, “This post contains five tips for authors by Colleen Cunningham (@bookdesigngirl) and Iris Febres (@epubpupil) from FWMedia.”
Rucy Ban presents How I Designed My Book Cover posted at Jilted Genius
Ebooks and Ebook Readers
Sarah Bolme presents eBook Sales Keep Growing posted at Marketing Christian Books, saying, “eBook sales continue to grow. If you are not on-board with an ebook version of your book, now is the time to do it.”
Jane Ayres presents Is a book simply a commodity? Should you be able to get a refund on a book if you didn’t enjoy it? posted at The Beautiful Room, saying, “Has anyone ever taken a book back to a bookshop on the basis that they didn’t enjoy it? Is it possible to abuse Amazon’s kindle refund system on e-books?”
Jane Ayres presents Readers: Does Size Matter? posted at The Beautiful Room, saying, “Do readers value a book by its size? Would you expect a book priced higher to be better than a cheap one? It is easy with e-books to have our expectations manipulated when there are so many books for free or less than £1. If my book is available free, is it worthless? And how much does size really matter?”
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