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 Use the Navigation Pane
The Playlist Creators for our anthology will use the Navigation pane in Word to move entries around. If you use Heading 3 for the titles of stories and poems (or chapters in your novel), then you have Heading 2 and Heading 1 “spare” to play with. Use Heading 2 to create sections or parts of the book. You’ll probably (maybe) remove these later), but they allow you to drag everything in a particular section from where it is to a new location in the book. All the images and text, from this Heading 2 to the next Heading 2, will move together – no need to cut and paste!
Continue reading How to Use the Navigation PaneHow to Organize your Anthology
Organize an anthology, a poetry collection, a photography book, a collection of essays or stories…
Continue reading How to Organize your AnthologyLay out your book with Word
How to Lay Out a Book just using Word
Word is a word processor, not a layout program, and real layout programs like InDesign will do a better job. But… you probably haven’t got InDesign on your computer, and you probably do have Word. So…
Continue reading Lay out your book with WordHow 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…
Continue reading How to make an ebookHow to Research your Title
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 PageWebsite Maintenance
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AFTER THAT!!!!!
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Writers’ Mill Minutes June 16 with Alan and Hilary Deeth
With thanks to Nora for taking the minutes and Judy for the Contest results. Please blame Sheila’s inexperience with Mailchimp on her tablet (and blame distracting puppies) for problems with the format this email. Many thanks to Alan and Hilary for their talk. You can find the PowerPoint presentation here: |
https://www.portlandwritersmill.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Querying-and-Agents-presentation.pptx |