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PART ONE Page Setup, Front Matter, and Body Text One Candle Press There is formatting, and then there is formatting. This is for the INTERIOR formatting you do when your manuscript itself is finished. Interior formatting is not horrifically difficult. We'll battle this, this monster. Back, beast! YES, there are programs and pieces of software that will do it for you. But it is nice to know how it works before you leave all the details to software you may or may not have purch

The new thing for hackers is to ride on your coattails because you don't have a copyright. Here's the problem: You think you can prove it because you have kept copies of your first draft to last. Case in point: Amir Tsarfati, international speaker and writer, wrote The Elijah Mandate. An unscrupulous 'author wrote a hurried book with the same name, with a slightly different cover and different interior, but purposefully riding Tsarfati's coat tails. The publisher. Ashe Whitlo

I Have Questions Kindle, KU, ISBNs, and the Glamorous Economics of Indie Publishing You have a Kindle. You purchase eBooks, usually for considerably less than their papery cousins. Cool. You may also have Kindle Unlimited. If a book is included, you can borrow it through your monthly subscription and tell yourself it was free. Also cool. But what does all this mean for the reader—and for the author? When You Purchase an eBook When you buy an eBook, the author earns a royalty

This came in the email, and determined to be both humorous and a bit of relief - an absolute must to share. Writers? Your sanity hangs in the balance. The next time someone tells you, or your negative thoughts tell you otherwise, consider: "Forgetting a word or phrase that you know you’re familiar with can be frustrating, but it happens to everyone. This phenomenon is often referred to metaphorically as something being on the “tip of your tongue.” It also has a technical name

Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, clean fiction, Christian fiction, memoir, or mystery, a real editor helps protect the reader, the story, and the author’s credibility. A quick visit if you wish to read the key takeaways: Editing improves structure, flow, clarity, pacing, logic, and voice while content can still change. Proofreading is the final polish after the manuscript is complete. It catches spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting issues, repeated words, and miss

As you can see from the website pages, new titles will be dominating the scene for One Candle Press. First, Match Made in Mayhem, release date, end of June. Still in time for grabbing that book to take to the beach or the mountains when nightfall comes. In September, when the kids go back, it's perfect timing to drop into a chair and read Madness Made in Mayhem. Wondering what to do or buy someone for birthdays? The first releases will be on sale for $1.99. Christmas? Mistlet

This answers the generative AI question: huntingthemuse.net/library/how-to-tell-if-writing-is-ai Just about every writing software out there is AI. The writer can use it to do spelling and grammar, and that's not considered AI. The Authors Guild says so. They--of course--have the final word (please note, I just used em dashes ... keep reading). What software can you use? Chicago Manual of Style (if you want to vomit, be my guest*)PerfectIt - which refuses to add AI to its spe

Publishing has changed. Authors have changed with it. For years, traditional publishing was the main road most writers hoped to travel. Query letters, submissions, contracts, edits, covers, release schedules, and a whole lot of waiting. There is value in that road. For those who've walked parts of it, learned from it, and remain grateful for what it's taught, those authors are miles ahead of anyone who blunders through the process. But indie publishing has opened another road