Tag: publishing
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Progress Report October 2025
When you get that first Automatic Remittance Notice declaring that a company has deposited money into your account in accordance with your contract earnings, it’s a really cool feeling. “Ah, yes,” you think, kicking back in your most comfy chair, wearing a smoking jacket, monster feet slippers, and holding a bubble pipe in hand. “Of…
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IWSG July 2025
Getting an LCCN is a bit confusing. You need it to make it easier for libraries in the US to find you, but it is not a requirement. If you get an LCCN, You have to submit a hardcopy book to the Library of Congress. Which I have to do anyway for the copyright. I’m…
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Book Pricing
As I fiddle along getting things formatted and set up, I catch myself frowning at the last few bits. I’m getting a handle on Scribus and Gimp–I still have days where I have to watch and rewatch and pause and take notes and read through 4 articles to step my way through a thing, but…
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I Only Wanted to WRITE!
But then I researched the gatekeepers, and the rights abuses, and sheer improbabilities of getting picked up by a credible publisher. After I hid under my bed for several days with a few choice stuffies, I started researching other ways that I could release my creative genius upon the world through self-publishing. Which was quite…
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IWSG December 2024
The last insecure writers’ blog hop of the year. Some folks are writing about cliffhangers in their work and how they feel about them at the end of a book. Right now I’m struggling to just get things set up to publish. I’m not sure what I expected after I set up my LLC and…
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F#@k it.
I’m really questioning whether more research is the right direction for me, or if I should just throw my least favorite children into the real world and take notes. Except my “children” are manuscripts. Much like a psychopath “doctor” would with his test subjects. I don’t like doing that. I like having a plan. I…
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