by Clarissa | Nov 30, 2020 | writing, Self publishing
Copyright is a complicated subject, and this shouldn’t be taken as legal advice. There have been a few high shock stories making the rounds of indie authors where books have been plagiarised and put for sale by someone else. For many the idea of their work...
by Clarissa | Oct 26, 2020 | writing, Self publishing
Your front and back matter are all the pages you put in your book that aren’t the text of the book itself. These are different for ebooks and printed books, so you need different versions of them for each type of format you are creating. At the front of the book...
by Clarissa | Oct 12, 2020 | writing
If you are a regular reader then you will no doubt have noticed that I have updated the theme on my blog, so that it is a bit sleeker. It is the latest in a series of steps to make my blog more of a website with a blog attached, as I have more static content and as I...
by Clarissa | Sep 28, 2020 | writing, Self publishing
For my next instalment of this series on self-publishing I am going to look at formatting. Once you have your manuscript finished, edited, proof-read and polished to perfection you then need to make it look as good as it can for publishing. And you need to choose if...
by Clarissa | Sep 15, 2020 | writing
Realms of Fae and Shadow is live! This book contains eight stories, one by me, which all lead into full fae series. I have read all of the other stories and thoroughly enjoyed them. I’ve also read some of the later books, those which are published already, and...
by Clarissa | Aug 31, 2020 | Self publishing, writing
For the next instalment of my series on self-publishing here is a short post on book blurbs. Once you are preparing to upload your manuscript and sell it you need to have a blurb – this is the few paragraphs of text that show on the book page on each retailer...
