The digital future is here. From printed book to PDF copy, onto to e-book sales and now digital applications of books are making their way onto the iPhone/iTouch. With buzz words like Amazon’s “Kindle”, and “Sony Reader”, electronic readers are circulating throughout the net and in homes. Now we are being introduced to the iPad. [...]
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Being in the book publishing, and graphics industry, one comes up against copyright all the time. When you create a piece of writing or artwork that is original, specifically from your thoughts, crafted, designed and written or illustrated by you without the use of any copying methods, then you own the right to that piece [...]
Before setting off on a self publishing route, you have to determine what your goal of self publishing is. Self publishing - seeing the book from manuscript into a bound copy is the easy part, but the hard part of self publishing is the work that surrounds it, and the biggest of all [...]
Can a self published author charge for author visits? This is a question I have asked myself after several school and library readings, when I’ve taken up at least an hour or two of my time and haven’t sold a single book. When I first published Little Blue Penguin, my children’s book for ages 2 [...]
Blogging here at aboutwritingandpublishing will be sparse over the next week, while I take a much needed vacation break. I wrote in another blog (journalsandpapers.com) about travel journals and writing and suggested a difficult exercise.
Writers have to think and be able to describe senses to set up a scene effectively. When I [...]
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As writers, we all need them, have used them at one time or another, have even started one or two ourselves. I’m talking about writer’s groups. If you are starting out, love writing and want to be in a community of like-minded individuals, then a writing group is for you. If you are a well-seasoned [...]
There are many kinds of publishers and if you are looking at getting your manuscript published, you should know the differences. Notice I said manuscript in the last sentence. That’s because even though you feel like you’ve written a book, it is not actually a book yet until it becomes published. Not yet published [...]
