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In our time, we have seen a fundmental change to one of the main building blocks of the English language: their. Their used to be purely plural.  Now it also include gender-neutral singular.  See Facebook: So-and-so has updated their status. I think that if the English language can accommodate such a shift, then it can […]

This past weekend, I ran three of my five Kindle Direct Publishing Select program days.  I have to leave the book exclusively with Amazon until May 20 (90 days); in exchange, they will allow the book to be checked out for free by Amazon Prime members and let me have five free promotion days.  I

Before I bring up some options for pricing your book (and I’ll tell you right now that I still don’t know which is the best option of the three I plan to present), I want to discuss how to figure out what you invested in your book. I found myself horribly stuck when I first

The indie editing series continues (starting here but the collective posts are here)!  I’m done with Ebook Formatting 101! I’m still looking for one or two things for my cover posts, so if you’re interested in $5 for use of your cover in an ebook, blog post, and possible print book much later on, contact

So back in January I entered an indie cover art poll, and didn’t win (no surprise there).  However, I’d like to take a minute to break down the covers there…   Blood and Guitars – Heather Jensen Very designy cover, a cutout on a white background.  It has good contrast, even at small sizes.  Genre

This keeps coming up.  People want to know how to price their books in a situation where nobody has had enough time to test a method–the method that might work great during one five-year stretch might not work out so well during the next stretch.  Who knows? However, I’ll tell you my theories at the

I gave the Ebook Formatting 101 presentation last night for PPW.  The first hour was the formatting side; the second hour was the slideshow (much meatier than the one in the blog post) plus questions. Oh, man.  People said it went well (aside from my learning curve with the microphone), but I saw a lot

New fiction up!  I’m trying out the Kindle Direct Select program, which means I have to leave it exclusive on Amazon.com for three months (May 20th).  I’ll let you know how it goes…at any rate, it’s only available via Amazon.com at the moment.  So if you happen to buy a copy but don’t have a

The ebook formatting 101 series continues.  Read the rest of the posts in the series here.  I was going to include the handout with this post, but I changed my mind: the handout will contain less than the posts, so why post it?  It’s just a front-back printout to trigger people’s memories and to help the

I’ve been working more on Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, and I got to a statement that made me shake my head: Consider that the whole Wonderland story itself is one huge dream, since Alice’s sister wakes her up for tea at the end.  Alice never really visited an actual place called Wonderland; she just