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A Note About the Hugo Nominations This Year

Ruth Nestvold:

What do do when the Hugos get hijacked:

Originally posted on Whatever:

It is:

1. Yes, Ive seen the slate. The slate shows up even in Australia! And I woke up early because I crashed from exhaustion last night before 7pm. Finishing a book takes it out of you.

2.Im very pleased for the several friends and/or writers who are on the ballot this year. This includes everyone in the Best Novel category, all of whom I consider friends, and any of whom I would be happy to see take home...

Cover Copy Primer

Some great tips in this blog post on how to write a book description:

Cover Copy Primer

Quarterly progress report and a #WIPpet snippet

I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to get to this today. I’m flying to Spain tomorrow for the next Villa Diodati workshop. But I’m almost done packing now, so my head is free for a blog post after all.

I’ll start with the final update for this Round of Words. If you’re here only for WIPpet Wednesday, feel free to skip. :)

Here are my goals from the beginning of the quarter:

Writing:

Write an average of 4000 words a week – MADE IT! 53,300 words in 12 weeks. The weekly output was up an...

What became of the apple? A #WIPpet Wednesday snippet.

Before I get back to Facets of Glass, a brief update on my progress for the week. I continue to move forward steadily on the translation. It certainly helps that the first book in the series, Ein Krieger der Wikinger, is selling like gangbusters. Since Jud and I have a translation model where I am paid much less up front for a much higher percentage of the royalties, that means it probably won’t be too much longer before I’ve earned out on my advance for the translation and will start earning...

Starting out as an indie author: Creating a wraparound cover for your print book

Last week, I provided some tips on how to format the interior of your book for print on demand. This week I will finish the POD publishing lesson by showing you a little on how to make the wraparound cover that you need for a print book.

The first thing you will need is a template in the size you want with the spine the correct width for the length of your book. You can either create this yourself using the instructions on your publishing site (here for CreateSpace), or download the template...

eBooks and DMCA Abuse: A Few Suggestions Based on My Experience

Ruth Nestvold:

I’m a bit late in reblogging the follow-up, but I’m glad to hear (and share!) that Becca’s DMCA case got cleared up so quickly! And now she has some interesting thoughts on how such scams might be avoided.

Originally posted on The Active Voice:

Thanks to thefine people ofthe indie-publishing community, Nolander has recovered wonderfully from itsweeks vacation. Folks on The Passive Voiceblog and theKboardsWriters Cafeurged downloads, and a number of discounted/free book sites sp...

Tolino to Launch Self-Pub Portal in April

This is excellent news for those of us with books in German translation, since the places Tolino distributes to have nearly a big a share of the German market as Amazon.de.

Tolino to Launch Self-Pub Portal in April.

A weapon of mass instruction — the book tank!

Okay, this is so awesome, I have to share it:

The world needs more crazy people like that. :)

Gaetano’s suspicions confirmed for #WIPpet Wednesday

It’s WIP snippet day again! And I am just marching right along through the first draft of Facets of Glass, not worrying about spoiling anything for anybody. *g* This excerpt comes immediately after the one I gave you last week. Gaetano has reported back to the Evil Dowager Princess after delivering the glass apple to Minerva. Math today 11-3 = 8 for 8 short paragraphs — plus one, just because I want to give you Gaetano’s reaction to what the DP says:

Gaetano returned to the palazzo on the Gra...

Starting out as an indie author: Formatting the interior of your book for print / CreateSpace

Formatting your self-published book for print on demand (POD) is very different than for ebook publication, another level of difficulty entirely. But as with most things, the first book is the hardest, and after that it gets progressively easier. In this installment of my series, I will be referring exclusively to CreateSpace because that is the only POD publisher I have experience with. I suspect most of the these instructions will be similar for other POD publishers, however.

Preparing you b...