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November 9, 2015
Thoughts on Writing – Swearing in Audio Formats
In my last post, I read fromMagic’s Stealing. It was the first time I edited one of my Youtube blog videos using Premiere Pro, and I used it to remove some of the moreobvious stumbles where I tripped over my words.However, I ran into a bit of a conundrum that I hadn’t considered before. For public readings, should I bleep out swear words, or should I leave the text as-is?
If you recall, I wrote a post a while back on To Swear or Not To Swear, in which I debated whether or not to include actua...
November 7, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter One of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’mcontinuing the trend of doing a weekly video blog post, but instead of doing a reading from 1000 Words, I’m reading the first chapter of Magic’s Stealing. :-)
(And aYoutubelink in case you can’t see it).
This is a day late–I normally try to post on Fridays– butthis time I edited the audio to remove the more obvious stumbles where I tripped over my words. It’s been a while since I used Premiere Pro, so it’s not perfect (and I caught a couple spots I missed once I listened to the full...
November 4, 2015
Behind the Scenes – The Girl Who Flew Away
This is a cover for Barking Rain Press. The author had several ideas on their art form for how the cover might look, and they listed a few options for symbolism. After reading the form, I had an idea of the style I thought might work. I found the images (including the sketchy dragonflies, both the illustration and the creature referencingthe book) and put together a mock-up. My initial mock-up had a different background, which included cliffs and a waterfall but didn’t really give the right f...
November 2, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – Infinitas Publishing Status Report
Wow, time flies. O_O
It’s time for another Infinitas Publishing status report!
The Wishing Blade: Magic’s Stealing(Book One) – I’ve just about got the print version ready. I’ve gone through the first proof and searched for typos, and one of my beta readers graciously agreed to look through it a (third? fourth?) time, and they pointed out a few grammatical suggestionshere and there. I’ve made notes about which changesI plan to implement, and my next step is to apply those changes across the th...
October 30, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Four Way Stop
Last week I did my first video blog post, in which I read “The Magician,” one of my 1000 Words short stories. Tonight I’m continuing that trend by reading “Four Way Stop” (also from1000 Words), in a special, Halloween edition. :-)
I had a bit of help with this one from Isaac, who helped create a few themed props, and the process which much faster than last time, since I had a better idea of what I was doing.
Anyway, here’s the video!
(And aYoutubelink in case you can’t see it).
I hope you en...
October 28, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – YA Paperback Prices
In my last post, I discussed my thoughts on pricing an indie card game. That got me thinking back to pricing paperback books. I’ve already determined that I’ll probably sell the paperback edition ofMagic’s Stealing for $7.99. It’s an odd price, but a compromise since there weren’t a whole lot of YA novellas in paperback that I could find to reference, and the ones I did find were by well-known authors, and therefore priced higher.
Since there’s a slight possibility that Magic’s Stealing may a...
October 26, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – Pricing an Indie Card Game
Isaac and I have been working on our upcoming card game,Battle Decks: Trials of Blood and Steel, and we had a gaming-experienced friend come by a few days ago to test the game. He gave us a lot of great advice that we’re now looking into implementing. Our date of release may have been pushed to a later date now, but we should have a better game for it.
In the meantime, Isaac and I have been thinking about how to price Battle Decks, as well as how to make it available to the largest number of...
October 23, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post and a Reading – The Magician
Today I’m doing something a little different. In an effort to save time (which didn’t work this time around, but hey, now I know what I’m doing, so next time may go faster), I decided to try making a video for a blog post.This is also the unveiling of the Infinitas Publishing Youtube channel. :-D
This was an experiment, to say the least.
I knew bits and pieces of what I was doing, but I had never used Youtube’s video editor before (it allows you to splice videos, add multiplevideo clips, add...
October 21, 2015
Thoughts on Writing – Trademarks and Evolving Languages
Yesterday at the writing group my husband and I usually attend, one of the writers made a comment about how English is a growing language. They pointed outthat it constantly shifts and adds new words, whereas other languages are stagnant and are ruled by a constant number of words. This caught my interest, so I thought I’d do a little bit of research on the topic.
Though my research didn’t go quite the way I anticipated, I focused on new influencers to a language.
October 19, 2015
Thoughts on Publishing – Serial Publishing Methods
I recently got back notes from our beta reader for The Multiverse Chronicles, and one of the questions we asked her was whether or not shewould read it in serial format (in this case, one episode a week). We want to make sure that when we release the episodes that the method of release will work well for readers.
Though she said thatsheenjoyed the episodes that she read, shealso said thatshe personallywouldn’t read it in the serial format.Sheexplained the reason was because the first two epis...
