In the publishing world, metadata refers to all that information about our books we must provide so readers can find our books. This is especially true for indie authors whose readers shop online instead of in bookstores. I’ve filled in the blanks with what I have so far about my book. Continue reading
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Weird Indy’s Timeline: Draft to Launch
This tenth post in My Weird indie Publishing Project is a checklist I created so I could choose — from all the steps I must take from draft to launch — what I wanted to do based on how I felt at the time. Continue reading
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The Big WHY in editing Memoirs
#9 in “Weird Indie Publishing series:
While the author should be able to answer “Why am I writing this” for any book she writes, it’s especially true for the memoir written by someone who isn’t famous. Continue reading
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Find Your Editor
Editors not only specialize in different kinds of editing–developmental on one extreme and proof-reading on the other–but they also differ in the way they work with authors. In my limited experience (fourth book), I’ve had two editors for proof-reading (line editing) and they were like night and day. Continue reading
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Take 2: Help, Please? Revised Title Poll
This is #4 in the “Weird Publishing Project” series. It’s time for me to choose a title. Will you help me? Continue reading
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About Naked, Drunk, and Writing
The book about memoirs that convinced me to write my own story, was Adair Lara’s book, Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay. Here’s some of what I learned from her. Continue reading
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10 Lessons Learned: Beta Readers
In the first post about my Weird Publishing project, I explained why it was weird and stated that I would share my journey here so authors could benefit from my success or failure and what I learned by doing it. … Continue reading
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Weird Publishing Project: Beta Readers!
This post is about beta readers, and I’m posing as someone being interviewed, because I use them…differently. Continue reading
