by Corina Koch Macleod and Carla Douglas | May 28, 2014 | Editorial, Self-Publishing
By Corina Koch MacLeod and Carla Douglas “I know I need to edit my book, but I just don’t know where to begin.” — Indie Author Step 1: Start with the Reader We hear this comment frequently from self-publishing authors. Completing a book-length work is exhausting, and...
by Joel Friedlander | May 5, 2014 | Self-Publishing
We all know there’s a huge amount of information about self-publishing out there, just the other end of a Google search. Service providers, print on demand vendors, book and ebook distributors, and lots and lots of authors have been contributing to this vast...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 3, 2014 | Writing
Yep, big news today dear readers. You’re in for an incredible treat over the coming months as new voices join with me to bring you the best information, tips, news, guidance, ideas, and inspiration to help you publish your books more quickly and to greater...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 28, 2013 | Book Design
I had been working on a book with editor Sharon Goldinger of PeopleSpeak. This fiction author is fond of dropping ellipses into his dialogue. Consequently there were hundreds of them in the 300-page book. Some authors will just type three periods where they want an...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 1, 2013 | Editorial
by David Carr David Carr is a book editor from the San Francisco Bay Area here in California. His last article for TheBookDesigner was Dear Author: Deciding on a Voice. Today he turns to a problem that many authors confront when they decide to self-publish: how do you...
