The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing
Tips, Resources, Real Numbers, and What's New in E-Publishing
Happy Thursday, WG2E-Land! With just a few days left till the release of my new non-fiction book I thought I’d share one of my Secrets to Indie Epublishing Success… THE TWELVE MANTRAS OF THE INDIE EPUB JOURNEY I use these Twelve Mantras every day to save myself from jumping off the proverbial cliff of sanity. I [...]
May for me is graduation, kids moving home from college, end of the year school and team events and more –an overall jam-packed month. It has been fun but crazy busy. I do hope all of you in WG2E land are doing great and gearing up for the lazy days of summer As far as [...]
Indie author or self-published: which one describes you? Recently, I read a blog post by agent Sarah La Polla in which she decries self-publishers using ‘indie author’. Self-publishers, she says, should not hijack the term used to describe independent, small press publishing, simply because they’re keen to escape the stigma of going it alone. Hunh? [...]
Happy Monday, WG2E-Land!!! Here’s a must-read Self-Publishing Survey and really the only scoop of its kind… On Amazon I mentioned in late February 2012 that the wonderful peeps at The Taleist Blog were conducting this survey…and now, the results are in and have been published for us all to digest. This survey was a 60+ [...]
1. Make your main character want something real. And they must want something that is a concrete, external object. Don’t confuse motivation with goal. Motivation is why they want it. We can’t see motivation. We can the goal. 2. Make your main character be in action. Think of the opening of your book like the [...]
teens/tweens. She’s successfully written for traditional NYpublishing houses, as well as topped the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists with her indie published works. Her books have been translated into several languages, sold in more than a dozen countries, and have been option for a cable television series. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is constantly fighting her addiction to Starbucks lattes. You can find her online at: www.gemmahalliday.com [Read More…]
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