The Proviso excerpt download

December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

THIS IS A STICKY POST. SCROLL DOWN FOR MY LATEST LAME ATTEMPT AT BEING INTERESTING.
Of the many things on our to-do list with regard to getting The Proviso out there was to offer a good-sized excerpt as a free download. Well, we finally got around to it today (and just in time for Christmas, [...]

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Creating e-books: Gather your “materials”

January 5, 2009 | 4 Comments

I want to make something very clear. What I’m doing is giving you the tools to create e-books from scratch with very little money and not a lot of automation. There’s a reason for this: When you learn it this way, you learn principles you can carry with you to other projects. [...]

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Book Review: The Duchess et al

January 4, 2009 | 15 Comments

The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom & Their Lover: An Erotic Novel
by Victoria Janssen
Published by Spice
Please note the title and study the cover a bit. Does that say “romance novel” to you? Me, neither.
And yet, despite the absence of the word “Harlequin” anywhere on the cover, on the copyright page, on the “coming [...]

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Faith and hope and elbow grease

January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

I’m a permablogger over at Publishing Renaissance (for those of you who don’t know). I’m alternating Thursdays, starting January 1 (yeah, I know, it was 2 days ago). And it’s so cool to be kicking off Publishing Renaissance’s year.
Lately, I’ve been around some blogs that are extraordinarily kinda negative and I notice it [...]

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Creating e-books: The easy way

December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

I AM AGAINST DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM). ANY VENDOR I RECOMMEND WILL SHARE THIS STANCE AND ANY INSTRUCTIONS I GIVE WILL IGNORE ANY POSSIBILITY FOR ENCRYPTION. IF YOU WANT TO LOCK UP YOUR WORK, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF.

In my last episode, I instructed you to go learn (X)HTML/CSS. I was gently taken to task [...]

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A rose by any other name

December 29, 2008 | 10 Comments

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the definition of a “book,” or more specifically, the proper formatting of an e-book, and the definition of a “page” and its importance in the New eWorld Order.
I’m here to tell you: Unless it’s on paper or in PDF, they ain’t no such thing as a [...]

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Book Review: Waiting for Spring

December 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

Waiting for Spring
by RJ Keller
It’s been a long time since I threw common sense to the wind and stayed up to finish a book knowing how much I had to do the next day, but not resenting it the next day because it was totally worth it.
This book has no spiffy genre classification. After [...]

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