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Tag: self-publish

  • July Progress Report

    We are now working on the art for the fantasy series. Maps, cover art bits, things like that. I’ve started editing the manuscript for the first in the fantasy series for epub and pdf. But what have we learned now that we are a PUBLISHED AUTHOR (buymybookASpecialBlwndofCrazybuymybook)? We’ve learned that when you hold a physical…

  • 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…

  • Wednesday Progress Report: June 2025

    And we are (June 30) published! A Special Blend of Crazy is will be up for sale June 30! A Mundane Affair of the Heart – the rough beginning of the series: I honestly don’t know where the hell it came from, exactly. Some would even say “Dear child; you get points for trying, but…

  • May 2025

    We are done with formatting!!!! And with figuring out a price! And with most of the bookcover for the print version. We are now struggling with the alphabet soup of ISBN, LCCN and a few other things. I’ve got a block of ISBN’s, and that part is reasonably easy, it’s just hard to wrap my…

  • 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…

  • 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…