Oct 11, 2019 | Author Business
With so many authors wanting to do things themselves and not paying for formatting, as well as people offering these services who aren’t as experienced, I’m seeing a lot of excessively large file sizes. Some books, like picture books or nonfiction books...
Oct 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently I realized I needed a better tool for watermarking the stock covers we offer as well as other graphics meant for demonstration purposes only. I had been placing my watermarks in Photoshop and that’s okay, but I wanted something else. Thankfully, I...
Oct 2, 2019 | Author Website Tips & Advice
There are a lot of blogs I love to read. Most of the time, I don’t read them. Why? Because I forget to go check daily. There are RSS readers, which will parse the RSS feed of your blog (you’ll see the icon for ours in the header and footer) and then send...
Sep 30, 2019 | Writing Tips & Advice
With the latest update to Vellum, the commonly used program to generate ebook files, it no longer creates .mobi files. This is causing some confusion with authors and readers alike. They state this is due to limitations with Amazon’s KindleGen service, and...
Sep 27, 2019 | Author Business
I’ve had newsletters since the start of my career, whether it was a list I kept myself, a yahoo group, or a MailChimp account from the early days. The way early days! And one of the questions that is now getting asked, especially with so many integration is do...