Something I thought I probably ought to clear up – technically, I guess this ought to be month four, not month two. I did this before – over a year ago, shortly after Dean Wesley Smith started his \”Writing in Public\” series. I managed to maintain it for a month, then sort of fell apart …
I\’m more or less always on the lookout for cool new bits of tech to use in my writing. I have a pebble watch that I can use to control the music player on my phone, which in turn can be connected to either a bluetooth earbud or a portable Jawbone speaker. I also like …
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Didn\’t wake up til around 9am. Still felt groggy and tired. Stayed in bed checking email and generally surfing the internet while feeling cruddy until around 11am. Then up, got a little housework done, fed myself and the munchkins lunch. Susan had left in the early AM hours for an Arisia meeting – she\’s the …
This change IS a pretty big deal for indie writers. Amazon announced today in their KDP newsletter that they have updated their recommendations for cover sizes for Kindle ebooks. The new guidelines are a minimum of 1000 pixels on the long side – although they \”recommend 2,500 pixels on the longest side to ensure better …
I\’ve been speaking loud and long on this topic over on LinkedIn lately. It\’s a growing issue, a problem I am seeing inexperienced writers facing every day. A week does not go by without me hearing from or reading some writer talking about how they \”self published\” their book through some subsidy press or another. …
There is a serious question writers today are beginning to ask: what services are publishers providing? And are those services worth the cost? For a book published *right now*, today, probably the answer is yes. Despite the fact that contracts are getting worse, and regaining rights on a contracted book today is very hard (often …
Still playing with the art some. I rough-drafted a new layout, which I think might have more energy. Also tried tweaking the colors again. Just brainstorming various ideas. These new ones are just mock-ups – I haven\’t scaled everything perfectly yet or redone the fonts. But they\’re decent concepts, I think. Like these better? Or …
Second draft of the cover art for By Darkness Revealed. Next version will see a few tweaks, but the art is almost there, I think. I\’m pretty pleased with the overall effect, to be honest – simple whitespace, iconic imagery, bold and easy to read fonts. This is for the ebook cover – the print …
