From the monthly archives:

February 2010

This Week in the Blogs: February 21 – February 27, 2010

February 28, 2010 0 comments

This week we’ve got an inspiring story of self-publishing, talk about the gamut of publishing endeavors, another scam to watch out for, a really good roundup of the recent O’Reilly conference, some guidelines about decisions regarding publishing iBooks or iPhone apps, and some really interesting advice from a bunch of writers you’ve heard of on [...]

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4 Incredible Free Sources for Photos to Use in Your Book or Blog

February 26, 2010 18 comments

There’s been an ongoing discussion in the comments to the post on Fair Use and Copyright, and it seemed like a good time to explore some of the resources readily available that can supply images for use in blog posts or books without fear of infringing someone else’s copyright. The most common explanation I hear [...]

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7 Scenarios for Successful Self-Publishing

February 25, 2010 13 comments

I’ve been having a regular correspondence with my friend and writing instructor Suzanne Murray about the relationship of writers to publishing, and how to best understand the situation they face today. Recently, Suzanne sent me another question: Why would a writer want to self publish? And what kind of work is especially suited to self [...]

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Project Focus: The Poetry of the Typography of Poetry

February 24, 2010 2 comments

One of the great pleasures of being a book designer is getting to work on books by my friends. There’s a unique form of collaboration that happens when I work with someone I know well, and the book usually shows the result of this process. In 1999 I had the pleasure of helping my friend [...]

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How to Get Out of Your Own Way: Suzanne Murray on Freewriting

February 23, 2010 1 comment

Several years ago I returned to writing after an absence of many years. Hard to believe now, but I had found other channels for creativity over the years—as a designer, a teacher and a cook—but the central importance writing had never diminished. There was only one problem: I didn’t enjoy writing. Oh, I had written [...]

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