Tag: Writing business

  • 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…

  • IWSG November 2024

    November 6 question – What creative activity do you engage in when you’re not writing? Ummmmmm . . . .that would be everything except writing. Sewing, spinning, crochet, getting into some knitting, weaving, occasionally a junk jewelry moment, dabbling in video (not very well, but that’s kinda the point). . . The list is extensive.nstead…

  • 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…

  • Hyperventilating . . . Again

    I am taking the next step on my big girl author journey. I’m . . . Huuuhuhuuuuhhu . . . Huuhuhhuhuhhhhuuuuuh *deep breath, in the nose, out the mouth…* I’veregisteredSquarePegBooksasabusiness. *ears ringing* This should not be so traumatic as I’m making it out to be, but for some reason it absolutely is a crisis for…