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Formatting Your Manuscript Like A Pro

When you are formatting a book manuscript, simplicity and consistency are your best friends. Especially if you will be still writing and editing it.

Are You Ready To Publish?

It’s the start of the new calendar year. Are you going into it wondering if you are ready to publish? Convinced you are definitely ready? On the fence?   Wherever you are sitting on that question, moving from writing and editing to publishing is a big step. So, what if you are ready? What do […]

Building Your Platform

When a potential agent or publisher looks at you, your platform is the likelihood of your book selling in the mass quantities that make it worth their while.

I Survived NaNoWriMo! Now What?

For some reason, NaNoWriMo entirely aside, November seems to be the busiest month every year for me. It’s the season of winter craft sales for those doing that circuit. If anything goes sideways at work it is always November (for me, at least). At home it’s the beginning of Christmas planning, decorating, gift lists, baking, […]

What happened to ChiZine?

Co-owners of ChiZine Sandra Kasturi and Brett Savory have stepped down as publisher and managing editor of ChiZine. The new interim publisher is Christie Harkin.  From what I can tell her primary function will be to attempt to pay as much money that is due where it is due, to the best of her ability […]

E-book publisher Macmillan boycotted by libraries

Starting November 1st a number of large libraries in the US have begun boycotting Macmillan Publishers, suspending all electronic book purchases from them. The same day was the start of Macmillan’s library embargo, the limitation of public libraries and consortium to the purchase of a single copy of new e-book releases for eight weeks from […]

Surviving NaNoWriMo

November. Are you ready? Will you spill yourself heart and soul out onto the written or virtual pages this month? It’s November. That month where the world grows gloomy and cold, commuters begin their winter trek in the dim twilight or somber darkness, seeing little of daylight in their false indoor lights, and the long […]

Book Blog Tours

As an author one of your jobs is endless self-promotion.   I did my first ever book bog tour. I mean a real tour, not one where your publisher sends your book to all of two fellow authors in their stable to review it and calls it a tour (yeah, this did happen). This, despite […]

What About Wattpad

By request, I’m talking today about Wattpad. Let’s talk about a thing called Wattpad. Wattpad was launched in December 2006, so it’s a not-new social media platform. For comparison, Facebook was launched in February 2004. What the heck is Wattpad? Wikipedia defines Wattpad as: “… an Internet community for readers and writers to publish new […]

How to Hook a Literary Agent to Represent Writing and Get Published | Writer’s Digest

To agent or not, is a question we all ask ourselves at some point. https://www.writersdigest.com/publish... Advertisements