Why You Should Publish Your Print and Ebook Editions AT THE SAME TIME! By Angela Hoy
Should you publish your print book or ebook first? Or, should you publish them simultaneously?
Should you publish your print book or ebook first? Or, should you publish them simultaneously?
This Week:
You’ve seen them lining the shelves in the kids’ section of your local library. Perhaps your own children read them. Simple books that teach, explain, examine, and enthusiastically describe the world to children one simple subject at a time are everywhere. Luckily for us, someone needs to write them…
Will my children’s chapter book make a good EPUB and/or MOBI (ebook) candidate? It has lots of pictures. I’d like to try to get some Christmas sales.
Whether writing advertising copy, novels, articles, essays, or poems, it is essential to paint word pictures by wringing the last drop of creative juice from the sponge of your brain. Adjectives, verbs and adverbs make butterflies of less-than-colorful nouns and verbs. Yet, apply a too-heavy coat of description and the reader’s mind will never take flight. As in mixing colors, precision coaxes the loveliest of hues to appear; in writing, excessive verbiage results in a muddy mess…
Our elf, Christopher, returned on Friday and Mason and Max are SOOOOO excited! So far, Christopher has turned my entire inventory of LED “candles” on (so I had to buy more batteries!), has almost started a fire by roasting marshmallows in the middle of the night, took a ride on our ceiling fan, and used Mason’s toy bulldozer to bulldoze an entire (brand new!) bag of gourmet (expensive!) chocolate chips…
The good news is, they probably don’t really have a copy of your book. They may simply be tricking people into downloading a virus.
Thanks for once again publishing your “world’s worst queries and book proposals.” It’s hard to believe that people are really that stupid. But…I guess truth IS stranger than fiction.
JM
We have all been there. We have poured over websites for writers, submission directories like Writers Market, and WritersWeekly.com to find that next freelance opportunity. There are many magazines to write for, both online and off, especially now that the Internet has blossomed and bloomed, but the trouble comes in when writers try to find actual paying work…
Can I use my publishing company name if I go through BookLocker or another print on demand firm?