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At coffeemugged.net, a ton of indie authors have pooled their resources to give away over 100 titles, starting tomorrow: I’m happy to announce Coffeemugged’s first Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway! Several indie authors are giving away copies of their books – the total amount of different books is over one hundred! When the giveaway starts […]

Another non-nuts-and-bolts intro-ish post.  The nuts and bolts will follow… — I’ll mostly be covering editing your own ebooks, but there are things you should know if you edit other people’s work.  Plus, if you find that you have a hard time editing your own work, you might want to consider trading edits with another

I used to be an Apple fan.  Gah. Apparently, Apple had a deadline of June 30 that would force all app makers to sell additional stuff only through Apple. This would have meant that any book that you bought on your iPad/iPod would be charged an extra 30% to the publisher. Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and

I reread Sandman over the last two weeks, off and on. Meanwhile, I had to retrench financially, which both meant making some money sacrifices and making time sacrifices, so I am writing less fiction.  I also put together my ebook “How to Fail and Keep on Writing,” which I found as much of a kick

So here’s my list of mobile OSs that people are probably using on their smartphones and mobile tablets, in no particular order: Symbian Android iOS Blackberry OS Windows Phone webOS Now, to break it down to applications. iOS: iBooks – built into the iPad.  Available as a free download for iPhone.  Connects to iBookstore Kindle

For me, driving is like taking a shower:  I get all kinds of inspiration.  Yesterday on the way to picking up Ray I realized I know how to edit, I know how to make ebooks, and tons of people are like, “I can’t possibly edit my own ebooks…”  Aha, says I, “Of course you can.”

The first step of figuring out what mobile-device users use to read ebooks is to figure out what mobile devices are out there.  I don’t need to find out what the main models are–they’ll be changing faster than I can keep up, anyway.  I need to find out what OSs are most popular. A note–the

The primary (that is, first) place that I look for ebooks is on the store related to my reader device; the second is at Smashwords.  I end up at Smashwords second because, okay, it’s one extra step.  I have to get on the computer, order the book, sync the devices, and then read. Me =

Are you a pantser or a plotter…or something of both? I started out as a pantser:  it didn’t work for me.  Back then, that is. Then I switched over to plotting, which did a lot of good for me, but I got bored with it.  So, especially on short stories, I’ve switched back to pantsing.

Hypothetically, I’m supposed to be able to use Smashwords to get ebooks to the Kobo bookstore.  In fact, Smashwords tells me that they’ve delivered 7 of 11 titles to them. However, none of those titles are currently in the Kobo bookstore, including the one I published in February. According to Kobo’s website, you can publish