by Jessica Santina. If much of the writing that happens these days is any indication, there really is nothing new under the sun. People have amazing dinners, amazing weekends with family, amazingly productive workdays. Just this morning, E Online wanted me to read its list of “10 amazing facts” about Jennifer Aniston’s new fiance. Amazing? […]
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by Cindie Geddes. An ebook is more than a digital representation of a print book. Let me take that back; an ebook CAN be more than a digital representation of a print book. Sure, you can take the same file you’re going to use for your print book, run it through any of a number
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by Louisa Swann. Growing a book is like growing a garden – you work your soil, plant the seeds, and let them grow, hoping they’ll become the magnificent plant you picture in your mind. Sometimes the plants seem to take care of themselves and sometimes they need a little more help, but there’s one thing
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Lucky Bat Books cover design artist Theresa Rose shares some of her insights on designing covers for ebooks and print. We simply asked what makes a good book cover design and then transcribed Theresa’s words: Good Design? Multiple Components Enter the Picture: Typography and the use of a font that reflects the feeling of the
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Write it once. Send it many many places. That’s my philosophy of blogs. And with all the apps making it easy to feed a blog from one place to another, it’s just crazy to let it appear in all its glory just once and once only on your website. Make that blog work for you
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One of the biggest gifts of the huge changes in the publishing world is the access writers now have to distribution channels. And chief amongst these channels for the indie writer is Amazon and its print partner, CreateSpace. These are powerful distribution and marketing channels. As I was talking with a writer yesterday, I realized
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Copy-editing Drama I’ve heard it said that success is in the details, in those small decisions, those unsexy bits of minutiae and countless day-to-day choices — or, in the case of a writer, in the thousands of page-to-page decisions made in every story or every chapter of a book. And in details such as copy-editing and
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Guest Blogger and author Pat Holland Conner shares some of the pitfalls and successes she encountered as she pursued getting her book into print. Pat Holland Conner is the author of Doorways to Significance: Finding Peace, Power & Passion, recently published by Lucky Bat Books. This is her blog. By Pat Holland Conner, author of
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Guest Blogger and author Russ Crossley shares his story of the journey from idea to publication of Attack of the Lushites, recently proudly published by Lucky Bat Books. This is his blog. By Russ Crossley My new release is Attack of the Lushites and I thought I’d talk a little about the creation of the book.
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What a week. What a Week! it’s been at Lucky Bat Books! And, I admit, truly, it’s been more than a week since I (Judith) last blogged. But we’ve been hopping busy. Too busy to blog. Guess you’ve heard that one before – and said it, too, I imagine? We’re Proud to be Part of
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