Ed: Trim sizes in this post were updated on January 30, 2015. As soon as you get serious about self-publishing a book, you are confronted with the choice of what size your book ought to be. For instance, if you want to get a price on how much a book will cost to...
Soon there will be another meeting of the indie publishing group I attend nearby. The first hour will be for Q & A. At least one-third of the attendees will be new to the meeting. One of the first questions will be about print-on-demand—digital printing...
In my recent blog redesign I added the “Start Here” categories on the left sidebar to make it easier to find articles with basic information about self-publishing. Each introduces a stage on the journey to publication with links from the archives of...
This is the last in the series of What Does Self-Publishing Cost posts. After a preview, we looked at two other models of self-publishing, each representing a range of choices that self-publishers can make when they start planning their publication. Here are the links...
I want to tell you about this book, Writing for Your Life, by Deena Metzger. I want to tell you that I owned this book for several years, where it found a spot on the back of a shelf and never came out again. No, it was after I’d started taking freewriting...