Tag Archives: self-publishing
Use Google alerts to check yourself
If you aren’t familiar with Google Alerts, get on it! As a writer, it’s invaluable to have something like this. In fact, most people already do something similar. In the LA Times, they point out: “It’s a necessary effort to … Continue reading
Free ebooks with physical book
I saw a post on the Kindle forums asking “Will Amazon offer free to Kindle users, the hardcovers they have purchased?” and the obvious answer is no, since it’s not Amazon’s decision. Books you buy are not just the words … Continue reading
40000 book downloads, kinda
A while ago, a major torrent site for P2P downloads went legal. Removed all infringing content and only hosts, currently, user-created, original, and usually independent work. That is Mininova.org. They went from being one of the most trafficked sites in … Continue reading
Dangerous Rainbows
This book is complete. The editing, the design, the more editing. I spent an entire day doing a final read. It had a few errors, but all were easily fixed, and I can be rather confident that there aren’t many … Continue reading
Revise, revise, revise; the self-publisher’s constancy
As I edit and revise Dangerous Rainbows, I noticed a couple of odd mistakes that weren’t picked up by MS Word. Love it or hate it, MS Word is extremely good for doing the final revisions to a book. I … Continue reading