by Clarissa | Feb 8, 2021 | writing, Self publishing
Once you have a plan to release a book, or a book series, you then need to think about the timing of those releases. Both in terms of when during the year you publish it, and also how quickly after each other you can publish the other books in your series. Best months...
by Clarissa | Jan 18, 2021 | writing, Self publishing
For the next post in my series on self-publishing I am talking about pricing. I will be looking solely at purchase price and will not be considering Kindle Unlimited or methods for maximising page reads. I am a wide author and so page reads are not something I’m...
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 | 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 | 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...
