Posts Tagged ‘Writers’
BookExpo America 2016
I remembered to start the Map My Walk app on my iPhone and by the end of the day, I had hoofed over 15 miles at McCormick cruising the aisles of booths:
It brought back memories of the many trade shows past I have worked & walked and made clear that publishing is, indeed, an industry like all others. The publisher booths were impressive and put into stark relief their David & Goliath relationship with self-publishing authors.
I met Mark Coker at Smashwords, connected with a live person at IngramSpark and got a chance to get face-to-face with groups and companies that service “Independent Publishers.”
The frosting on the cake was meeting Berkeley Breathed:
Written by M.T. Bass
May 16, 2016 at 11:36 am
Posted in Electron Alley, Publishing
Tagged with Authors, Bloom County, BookExpo, Books, publishing, Writers
Night of the Living Dead (Author)
I guess dead men do tell tales: An email from iBooks this weekend announced that the latest book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn (R.I.P. 2013) will be released October 6, 2015. Here’s the cover:
Is traditional publishing really dying…or just busy turning bookstores into masoleums?
Written by M.T. Bass
September 8, 2015 at 10:09 am
Posted in Publishing, Words
Tagged with Airplanes, Authors, Books, Bookstores, Chevy Chase, eBooks, Francisco Franco, Mitch Rapp, Novels, Saturday Night Live, self-publishing, traditional publishing, Vince Flynn, Writers
Scribus — Interior Formatting & Cover for My Brother’s Keeper
IngramSpark Print on Demand – 5.25 x 8 Trade Paperback
Interior Formatting Specs: MBK141029 – Scribus Interior Format
Cover Artwork on Lightning Source Template:
Written by M.T. Bass
October 29, 2014 at 6:03 pm
Posted in Words & Swords
Tagged with lightning source, Novel, Print on Demand, Scribus, Software, Trade Paperback, Writers
Scrivener
I learned about the software called Scrivener through Joanna Penn (www.jfpenn.com & www.TheCreativePenn.com). Many, many thanks.
It is like a complete author’s studio, bringing together many functions and activities in one user interface. It’s only been about a month, but it has made the process of writing so much easier and much more productive.
So far my favorite features are:
- Everything from the manuscript to research & notes in one place, appropriately called a Project “Binder,” including text, images, pdfs
- Corkboard with Index cards to help visualize and organize plotting, characters & locations
- Ability to save web pages as pdf files directly into the Research part of the project binder simply by pasting the URL
- Project Target window to track and display both total manuscript word count & session word count in real time
- Ability to output manuscript directly to epub file format to read on my iPad
Before I started, I did the 2-hour tutorial and it was invaluable to getting started. Importing my existing projects was pretty straightforward and easy.
It is definitely one of those “how did I get along without it” products.
Written by M.T. Bass
July 24, 2014 at 4:40 pm
Posted in Words & Swords
Tagged with Author, Microsoft Word, Scriveners, Software, Word Processing, Writers