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Line By Line Time is a weekly Mini-Critique in which writers/authors share a few lines that demonstrate the week’s topic. On June 10, 2000, the #LineByLineTime topic was “First Lines.”…

I used Draft2Digital (D2D) to format Members of the Cast for eBooks. (Self-Publishing 101-2) When the 90 days of Kindle Select were over, I “went wide,” allowing D2D to distribute…

Members of the Cast, a historical novel taking place in 1959, enjoys positive reviews. Of the 15 written reviews on Amazon, two (13%) want me to write more about Maggie. I…

What you are about to read troubles me. I don’t want to sound superior or like a know-it-all, but I firmly believe the writing craft must not be taken lightly.…

Platform is the world you have built around yourself as an author. These are the avenues to let the world know about your book. It is all about "Getting Noticed,"…

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…