In this blog post I'm going to try and demystify the ebook publishing process. I've been through it and lived to tell the tale. So here goes. Stand by for a fun ride. It'll be worth the trials and tribulations along the way! Ingredients: Book (preferably in .doc format) - see detailed formatting guidelines below Cover picture (in jpg format, max 1200 pixels … [Read more...]
Amanda Hocking is Not Lucky
Until August 2010, Amanda Hocking, 26, worked for ten dollars an hour at an assisted-living facility in southern Minnesota, near Iowa. The work was honorable and satisfying although writing novels in her spare time was her first love. Amanda finished her first novel at age 17 and over the next nine years, wrote 11 more. After a string of rejections by literary agents, she … [Read more...]
Ebooks and Flying Cars
There was an episode of The Outer Limits a decade or so back before the show turned to crap. In this one, the people of a future world read all of their books by uploading them directly into their brains. It wasn't reading, exactly. Once the book was loaded into the mind, it was instantly absorbed by the memory. A second after the upload, the reader retained every bit of it … [Read more...]