November’s meeting brought 13 of us to watch and assist in the uploading of The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 7 to Amazon. Those of you who missed it missed some fantastic healthy snacks from Ria and an ongoing scene of great stress, excitement and triumph. The minutes below are LONG because I’ve tried to cover everything we did and all the questions I was asked about what we might not have done. So here goes… Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117
Category Archives: Book design
How to make an anthology – notes from Sheila’s powerpoint presentation, November 2018
Let’s Make An Anthology!
Or a novel, memoir, poetry book…
Writers Mill Minutes 201811
Writers’ Mill Minutes, Nov 18 2018
Only ten people were present for November’s meeting, but those ten got to watch a book grow from folders of random files to print-ready, kindle-ready documents, to a saleable, slender volume with a cover, designed at the meeting, soon to be available on Amazon! How’s that for an action-packed afternoon! Continue reading Writers Mill Minutes 201811
Book Marketing for the Bewildered, with Walt Socha
Book Marketing for the Bewildered, with Walt Socha
Walt will continue his presentation in December. Meanwhile here are notes from his talk on October 15th Continue reading Book Marketing for the Bewildered, with Walt Socha
Writers Mill Minutes 201709 Self-Publishing with Beth Jusino
Writers’ Mill Minutes, September 17, 2017
Minutes taken by Jean Harkin
Self-publishing Nuts and Bolts presented by Beth Jusino Continue reading Writers Mill Minutes 201709 Self-Publishing with Beth Jusino
Minutes 201606
Writers’ Mill June 19thminutes
22 writers, including several new members, left their homes on Father’s Day afternoon to attend a Writers’ Mill meeting with local author Ken Baysinger. A fun, inspirational and informative talk was followed by delicious gluten-free snacks from Jean, writerly awards from Karin for the monthly contest, and a fun all-hands-on-deck critique of Matthew’s story. By the end it was clear lots of us could have stayed longer than the usual 2 hours. But the room would be needed for other events, so we finished at 3 and planned to return next month, July 17th, for more inspiration from Wildfire Writer Christie Krug. Continue reading Minutes 201606
Self-pub, e-pub and more
Looking for a publisher?
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2015/06/what-i-learned-about-writing-from.html
Need more writing groups?
http://www.meetup.com/Hillsboro-Creative-Writing-Center-Meetup/
What about the cover, the title, the design?
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/04/how-to-choose-the-perfect-book-title/
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/02/judging-book-cover-book-publicists-media-want-see-outside-book/
http://www.bookbaby.com/free-guide/amazon-keywords
http://indigoediting.com/August2015
ISBN information
https://www.createspace.com/Services/LCCNAssignment.jsp
http://booklife.com/publish/print/07/16/2014/the-indie-authors-guide-to-isbns.html
Self-Publishing & e-Publishing
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/00/00/71/54/24/89/7154248950.pdf
http://www.bookbaby.com/free-guide/self-publishing-boot-camp
http://www.bookbaby.com/free-guide/how-to-publish-ebook
http://bookarma.net/blog/manuscripts-ebooks-formatting-tips/
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2014/11/leaving-bookbaby-was-the-best-decision-she-could-ever-make/
https://www.createspace.com/pub/l/services_pubessentials.do?rewrite=true
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/03/traditional-or-self-publishing/
Translation?
Minutes 201601
Twenty four people attended on January 17th to hear local author Marcia Coffey Turnquist tell us about writing, publishing, marketing, and everything in-between. Marcia’s first novel, the God of Sno Cone Blue is available at Barnes and Noble (store and online) or http://www.amazon.com/God-Sno-Cone-Blue/dp/0991637437/ on Amazon. Continue reading Minutes 201601
Journal News 2015 – Step 14 – Publish on Kindle
At the end of the Createspace process, we’re offered the chance to publish our book to kindle. Createspace sends the cover file, suitably formatted, but recommends we use a doc file rather than our nice pdf. This makes sense. pdf files are formatted. Ebooks aren’t. Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 14 – Publish on Kindle
Journal News 2015 – Step 11 – fixing the print file
Fine-tuning that print file takes forever, but the aim is to produce something that looks professional, rather than something we simply rushed into print. So here goes:
Page numbers: Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 11 – fixing the print file