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Guest Speakers, marketing, publishing, self-publishing, websites

Cats on the Keyboard, with Mollie Hunt, Dec 17th 2023

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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…

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anthology, Journal, Minutes, self-publishing

Writers’ Mill Minutes, Nov 19th 2023

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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.)

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anthologies, anthology, Guest Speakers, Journal, self-publishing

How to Upload your Book to Amazon, from Sheila’s talk, Nov 19th 2023

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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!

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anthologies, Book design, Editing, epublishing, format, Journal, publishing, self-publishing

We made a book, and you can too!

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Our “Let’s make another book” presentation covered and/or touched the following book-creation topics, with notes and additional information below:

  • How to Title your book
  • How to Format your book
  • How to Edit your book
  • How to Prepare your book for Printing
  • How to Prepare your book for Kindle
  • How to Upload your ebook
  • How to use Amazon’s Cover Creator
  • How to Upload your print book (and use Cover Creator again!)
  • How to get your book onto your Author Page (yes, I know, I didn’t have time to cover this, but some of you asked…)

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anthologies, Book design, Editing, epublishing, format, Journal, Minutes, publishing, self-publishing

Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117

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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 →

Critiquing, Journal, Minutes, publishing, self-publishing, submission guidelines

Minutes 201605

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Writers Mill Minutes May 15th 2016

21 members attended May’s meeting and listened to an excellent discussion on all things writing, led by poet, short story writer and novelist Jim Stewart. Jim has generously agreed to a return engagement to lead a poetry workshop for us soon. We really appreciated meeting with him, and notes from his talk will be included in a separate post.  Continue reading Minutes 201605 →

Book design, Critiquing, Editing, epublishing, format, ISBN, publishing, self-publishing

Self-pub, e-pub and more

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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?

http://www.babelcube.com/