I’ve been dealing with quite a few book proofs recently. Almost all of these proofs are in the form of PDFs, Adobe’s supremely useful cross-platform file format. These proofs are better looking than the books that will eventually be printed from the same...
The instructions to authors have been repeated up and down the publishing line over and over: blog, blog, blog. Last year, Simon & Schuster urged all their writers to get going on their author blogs. Every author I’ve spoken to in the last year has told me they...
Words of the week seem to include “heat dome,” “intractable impasse” and “Google+” but we’ve got work to do, and some great writers to help us do it. Whether we’re re-orienting our marketing, creating e-book covers,...
by Liz Alexander, @bookdoula We’re very lucky today to have a guest article from Liz Alexander, the author of 11 books who also consults with other authors to help them “birth” their books. Sometimes people like Liz are called book shepherds, or book...
When writers think about their publishing careers today, should they include self-publishing as a viable option? Yes Don’t you find that a little bit incredible? Yes So now all the authors have realized they can make a lot more money self-publishing once...