by Andy Updegrove | Mar 25, 2014 | SelfPublishing
One of the ongoing quandaries a self-published author faces is whether to dedicate part of her hard-earned cash to advertising. That’s a tough one, since advertising is rarely cheap, and may often fail to generate more in immediate profits than has been spent on the...
by Andy Updegrove | Mar 8, 2014 | SelfPublishing
One of the big frustrations of writing a book is that while Microsoft Word can be used for creating and formatting a book, it’s a real pain in the neck for ordinary mortals to use it for that purpose. In fact, at least one person (Aaron Shepard) has written an...
by Andy Updegrove | Feb 24, 2014 | Blogging, SelfPublishing
Sub-blogged below is a great list of image Web sites – new and old photographs, paintings, drawings, film and more (most are free), courtesy of the anonymous author of the Tracking the Words blog. Many thanks to Catana, and his generosity is very much...
by Andy Updegrove | Feb 10, 2013 | SelfPublishing
Anyone who reads eBooks is aware that a number of content vendors are using proprietary platforms in an effort to lock you into their content libraries: most obviously, Amazon, with its Kindle line, Barnes & Noble with its Nook devices, and Apple with its iPads...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 30, 2012 | SelfPublishing
When I first started to prepare my book for publishing I spent a few hours cruising around looking for resources of various types, and bookmarking those that seemed worth revisiting. But I rarely did. Today I spent a little time checking out a few of those sites,...
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