by Andy Updegrove | Nov 26, 2014 | SelfPublishing, Writing
The last thing many authors want to do when they finish the first draft of a book is go back to the beginning and dive in again. But that’s what it takes (usually more than once) to produce a book you can be proud of. Revising is many things. At the conceptual...
by Andy Updegrove | Nov 24, 2014 | Book Reviews
One of the significant advantages of self-publishing is that the author has the freedom to write the book that he or she wishes, rather than conforming to a formula that a publisher (rightly or wrongly) has decided the marketplace will buy. Felipe Adan Lerma has taken...
by Andy Updegrove | Nov 18, 2014 | SelfPublishing, Writing
There are two ways to pass the time from first draft to release: doing your revisions first and everything else second, or overlapping the two processes. There’s something to be said for both approaches, but it will be easier to figure out which one is right for...
by Andy Updegrove | Nov 16, 2014 | SelfPublishing, Writing
With a first self-published book, finishing the first draft feels like crossing the goal line. The second time around, you know better. The first time I produced the manuscript of a novel, I was blissfully ignorant of what self-publishing was all about. For that...
by Andy Updegrove | Oct 30, 2014 | Book Reviews, Writing
There is ample evidence that for some, the act of writing a book – indeed, book after book – seems to flow as effortlessly as a summer breeze. But we all know that for most authors, struggling to write too often leads to more pain than word-count gain....
