Last year, someone recommended that Sheila create a template file that could be used for subsequent anthologies, so she did. It’s a Word Doc rather than a template, and she included (chapters of) instructions on how to use it, in hopes that perhaps someone will take over from her and “use” it next year! The template should also be helpful for anyone who hopes to self-publish their work in a 6×9 inch book.
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Writers Mill Minutes 202408
Housekeeping
Writers’ Mill had 10 attendees in-person and 7 on Zoom for a total of 17 at our August meeting. Sheila started the meeting with the usual boring reminders: For online members:
Continue reading Writers Mill Minutes 202408Writers’ Mill Anthology Style Guide
Here’s the current Writers’ Mill Style Guide, developed over several years of creating the Writers’ Mill Journal. The aim (for editors) is to edit invisibly.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Anthology Style GuideHow to make an ebook
How to Create a Kindle or ePub version of your Word document
First make sure your Word document is “clean.” Take out the tabs (^t) and manual line breaks (^). Remove the contents list. Use Word ellipses (^i) instead of sets of periods… (see Tips and Tricks with Word). Then…
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How to Upload Your Book
How to Publish on KDP
Taken from https://www.portlandwritersmill.org/19/we-made-a-book-and-you-can-too/
Continue reading How to Upload Your BookSet up your Amazon Author Page
Your author page proves to the world that you’re an author. And if you’ve been published in our anthology, you ARE an author!
Continue reading Set up your Amazon Author PageCats on the Keyboard, with Mollie Hunt, Dec 17th 2023
Mollie Hunt currently has around 16 published titles: 11 mysteries in two cozy series, 1 standalone novel, 3 science fiction novels, 1 memoir, and 1 book of poetry! A common theme in her books is cats because…
Continue reading Cats on the Keyboard, with Mollie Hunt, Dec 17th 2023Writers’ Mill Minutes, Nov 19th 2023
9 in-person and 11 online attendees were present to see the upload of this year’s anthology to Amazon. We were delighted to welcome new NaNoWriMo participants, and very much hope they might join us at future meetings too. If you’ve not already signed up for our newsletters, please go to the SignUp page on the portlandwritersmill.org website and follow the instructions there. (You’ll get the instructions in an email from admin @ portlandwritersmill . org, so make sure you flag those emails as “not spam” when they arrive.)
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes, Nov 19th 2023How to Upload your Book to Amazon, from Sheila’s talk, Nov 19th 2023
Sheila had a PowerPoint presentation prepared to guide us through the upload of this year’s anthology, but Zoom and PowerPoint both crashed. Fearing the computer might crash next, she proceeded to give the talk off the cuff instead. By the end of the following day, our latest anthology was on sale at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPQ2F92/. Get your copies soon, before the price goes up!
Continue reading How to Upload your Book to Amazon, from Sheila’s talk, Nov 19th 2023