Posts by George Beckman

As I throw myself into the world of Yarlophone, the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) beta test for printing hardbound books, I have submitted Members of the Cast for approval. Human…

Is your WIP too long? 75K for a Middle-Grade book. 90K for a young adult (YA). 350K for an adult book? Even though every word is precious to you, and…

Too much of anything is not good for the whole. This goes for us as people, and it is true for plots. For a discussion point, we will discuss the…

The last stages of preparing a book can be hard work. Revision is more than fixing typos and inserting a missing Oxford Comma. Hopefully, revisions improve the book, but combing…

No one ever said querying was fun. When done carefully, it is a multi-stage process. I realize “how to query” articles can be had by the cargo. In this blog,…

I have completed the upload work for Kindle Direct Print (KDP) Hardcover beta. What Worked: • My paperback cover• My Keywords were brought forward• KDP knew who I was as…

Members of the Cast is under the Kindle Select program with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). This means that KDP has exclusive rights to the eBook version for 90 days.…

Yarlophone? Yarlophone? What’s Yarlophone? Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has a hardback book printing service in beta trials. For some unknown reason, it appears as Yarlophone in the KDP “formats”…

This is the second article about using Amazon ads. The first article will help understand how the ads work. After running the Members of the Cast ad for a week,…

Publishing a book, Self-Publishing, in my case, means that work begins now. Writing is not an easy task, but getting the news out is not a one-time task. In my…

Please don't go to Amazon search, look for my book, and click it just to see what the ad looks like. (Unless you intend to buy.) Every click costs me…

Kindle Direct Printing (KDP) offers Expanded Distribution for print book sales. Expanded Distribution allows Libraries and Universities to order your book, but the formula for royalties is much less. Below…

Today's discussion may be for beginning writers, but we all need to check our writing from time to time. This article discusses writing in the past tense. If you are…

Literary elements in writing are interesting and sometimes even useful. I am not a literary writer, although I flatter myself, claiming that Members of the Cast has a literary feel.…

This article deals with style, and every writer's style is different. Halfway through this piece, you may say, "I've had about as much of this as I can take!" So…