If you self publish the formatting falls on you. Guidelines are available but you have to change your manuscript. Strip out headers and footers and page numbers. You have to reset line spacing, Chapter Headings and indentation. You have to make certain of your page breaks. And still, your finished project may end up in the readers’ hands with totally distracting artifacts.
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If you make your own book trailer do you know how to get permission to put music in? Where will you get your images? How long should it be? Where will you home the file?
Read moreWho needs to build a website? Do you know what to include?
Who has a website? Is it up-to-date?
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Tonight, we are going to have an open chat, bring your own topic and let’s see what happens.
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I believe you cannot do a revision without doing some editing. I think the two actions are symbiotic.
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Our running topic for March will be Revision & Editing. We will sort out the difference between Revision and Editing and address techniques and forms of editing.
Read moreWhat Makes a Romance Novel a Romance Novel? What is really at the ‘Heart of Romance?’ Join us as we honor Valentine’s Day. Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an “emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.” … A thriving genre of…
Read moreI plan to carry this topic into at least two chats and to honor February Romance Month we will use romance genres as examples.
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Let’s talk about the thousands of courses and books on the market. If we aren’t careful we may learn ourselves onto a blank page. Are Courses and How-to Books helping us or are they a distraction?
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Writing and selling an article to a magazine is a great place for writers to get a toe into the publishing world or earn some street creds.
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