I have stuff to celebrate today!  No new book contracts or anything, but good stuff.  Plus, I have enough on the alien feast done that I don’t want to spend an hour researching stuff this morning…WRITECITEMENT! I bought up the leftover Choose Your Doom:  Zombie Apocalypse books back from the Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference.  So […]

To start out with, I want to define two terms for the context of what I’m writing: Editing Rewriting Editing is when you fiddle with the small details, using your editor brain. Rewriting is when you fiddle with the larger details (style is a larger detail made up of many small choices, by the way),

I admit that I haven’t studied much of linguistics.  I’m reading The Stuff of Thought:  Language as a Window into Human Nature, by Steven Pinker, and it seems like one of the base assumptions that I have never seen questioned (not just in this book so far, but in all the limited linguistics that I’ve

Today I’m researching Feedbooks  from a publisher’s perspective.  I cruised around Feedbooks a bit this weekend, and I liked it. Note: Currently, independent authors and publishers cannot charge money to publish on Feedbooks. Feedbooks is a French company that uses DRM.  They have a three-strikes takedown policy.  They also support various types of CC licences. When

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. Strike against the evil that lawyers and ex-lovers do by picking up this story for free this weekend at Smashwords using coupon code UH37C! Lanes of the Living Dead by DeAnna Knippling It ain’t easy being divorced. But Bart’s ex-wife’s lawyer, also a voodoo priest, didn’t make it

Here are what, IMO, are the major mobile device markets that I think indie publishers and writers should go after: iBookstore – Currently reaching through Smashwords. Kindle – Currently reaching through Kindle Direct Publishing. Nook – Currently reaching through PubIt! Kobo – Currently reaching through Smashw0rds (only not really); they may open an indy-friendly pub

Day 2 of the Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway…Haunted Empire is one of the featured books! Continuing on research with mobile device ereaders. Symbian: eReader Pro.  Has its own library. Mobipocket.  Has its own library. Dorian seems to be much less used, doesn’t have a library. Blackberry OS: Kindle for Blackberry Nook for Blackberry eReader

Head over to Coffeemugged to enter the Great INDIE Summer Read Giveaway. And, if you’re interested in cover design, just take a look at the covers, all together.  Wow.  I’m picking up a ton of ideas… I have got to update that Haunted Empire cover.

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