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3 Easy Steps to Format Your E-book - Prose. Blog

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. My 3 easy steps to formatting an e-book, lovingly constructed for the Prose. blog. Read it here.

A love letter to Prose.

I was a writer long before I found Prose. But here's the thing. I hadn't loved writing since I finished the first draft of The Dead Don't Speak. Everything, with precious few exceptions, after that point (roughly June 2014) felt like work.

Enter the Prose. app and website. The Prose. Team offered me a single space as a guest blogger (1 post), which I readily accepted. I had been looking for a way to reach new readers and guest blogging is a great way to do that. I figured I mig...

Repost: 5 Ways To Make Anyone Read Your Book

Kayti Nika Raet, author of Niko (and the rest of the Outsider Chronicles series), makes some good points in her latest blog post about acquiring readers.

From the Prose. Blog - 8/24/15

Copyright for Writers

In this post I tackle basic Copyright info for new authors thinking about publishing their work for the first, or maybe second, time. It is a simple guide for us non-lawyer folk.

Prose. blog series - Posts 1 & 2

The folks at Prose. have seen fit to give me a blog series on their platform. Here are the first two posts.


Introducing: Author and Prose. Blogger Kendall Bailey

On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Making It Happen

Free Book Promo!

I need to get my novel, The Dead Don't Speak, some Facebook love. When my novel's Facebook page gets to 500 likes, I am going to do a 5-day free ebook promo on Amazon.
 

If you're a fan of free novels, please give the page a Like. I've linked the book cover above as well as the title to the Facebook page.

Paying for Reviews

I've been thinking seriously about starting a for-profit book review/promotion website. I am wondering what authors think of paying for book reviews and promotion.

How much would you pay for an honest review of your book? I've seen price points all over the place. I am thinking $50 is fair for the amount of time it takes to read a novel, the fact that the book will be promoted on the website and through social media,  the turnaround time is only two weeks, and that the review is an origin...

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Venture Prose™: The 1st VentureProse Book Is Available!

Venture Prose: The 1st VentureProse Book Is Available!: I am proud to announce the publication of the first VentureProse book. Sales for Authors guides the reader through the thought process o...

A brief bit about world building

Remember a couple weeks ago when I was all gung-ho on my Steampunk/Sci-fi idea? Well, that's on the back burner now. I had begun a heist story that I think I will finish first. The Steampunk/Sci-fi requires so much world building that I want to let it stew awhile. I take world building seriously, especially for a Sci-fi novel that will involve at least one planet that isn't Earth. Think about it. I have to:

Design a planet
This one was fun for me because I got to play physics nerd for awhile. M...