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This month’s free book focuses on overcoming Writer’s Block – the greatest myth in the writing world. You read that correctly, writer’s block is just a myth. There’s not some mythical power out there that halts our progress and rips words from our minds. Yes, there are certain situations...

A witty and candid firsthand account -- for writers by a writer -- on how to write, sell, publish, and promote a book. This invaluable book is written by a working writer -- not a professor, not a publisher, not an editor, not an agent. Robert Masello is a writer who speaks his mind with absolute...

Dreaming of publishing your own book? You'll get a high-level view of indie publishing. ACE YOUR EBOOK covers what to write about, writing best practices, how to structure your ebook, formatting tips, distribution and more.

Publishing an e-book on Smashwords shouldn't be difficult but sometimes the website can be daunting and vetting messages can be confusing. Having fielded thousands of questions, complaints and comments, one of the Support staff created this slimmed-down version of the official Smashwords Style...

Tips for Beginning Novelists is a short guide filled with practical, useful information that only a writer with years of experience can provide. In these pages you’ll find tips on how to get started, how to keep going when the going gets tough, and how the writing process actually works. You’ll...

There is much more to becoming an author and it is not just about being able to write a story. Over the months I have written of my experiences and thoughts after self-publishing my first novel and have compiled them together in order to share. Each Chapter represents updates on my own journey over...

A guide to the ins and outs of Createspace, ACX, KDP and more. For the beginning to intermediate self-publisher.

21 Things to Avoid as a Newbie Non-Fiction Writer is a compiled list with brief descriptions of some of the common things Newbie Writers should avoid to aid in a smooth and more accurate and cost-effective editing process. C. Orville McLeish has over fifteen years experience working as a Ghostwriter,...

Previously titled FOOL FOR AN AGENT. An alien space explorer seeking intelligent worlds discovers one inhabited by life forms known as publishers, and concludes that this world is not worth another visit; another voyager lands on Earth and selects a literary agent to represent his book and movie rights;...

EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting Butler) is the second of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, and PDF Machine when making "camera-ready" PDF files...

From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes,...

The e-book guide for publishers: how to publish, EPUB format, ebook readers and suppliers. An electronic book (also e-book, ebook, electronic book, digital book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable...

Learn the rules of today’s tech-driven publishing landscape! The Elements of Internet Style is the first guide to embrace the new reality of creating content in the electronic age. It is packed with the tools to reach and engage today’s too-busy, too-skeptical, too-distractible readers. Read this...

In Write Here Write Now (WHWN): Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator, published by National Book Store, Filipino writer, editor, speaker, teacher AA Patawaran shares with all writers—aspiring and established, amateurs and professionals—profound and practical tips on the craft...