Writing / Publishing

This is a fairly specific field, but making videos can be really useful for all sorts of reasons. Let me know if you’re interested in seeing this to offer feedback. I sell origami videos, although I really need to make a fresh version.

My videos were made over 10 years ago and camera technology has improved immensely!

Do you ever make videos? Of what?

Finally finished my revisions on my Book Marketing book. Lots of changes here in 2020. It’s a challenge to keep up – but well worth it!

What are you guys up to? Probably sleeping :). 

Today I’m working on the microwave recipe book update.

Let me know if you’d like to see a copy to offer suggestions or ideas!

Thanks!

What are you up to today?

Friday Free Books! All books are FREE! Are you an author with a free book? Post the link and I promise to download it to help your sales ranking! Are you a reader? Please download and enjoy these free books! You’ll learn something new and help an author’s rankings!

We live in a miraculous time where free books are joyfully waiting for you to read them – treasure the celebration!

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I need some beta-readers for my low carb no-cook recipe cookbook! All of these recipes involve no cooking. I’d love feedback and ideas for this one.

I can send a PDF. Thanks!

What are you up to today?

I’m doing a sweep to update all my low carb books. I’m starting with my most popular one – low carb charts.

Left is the old cover; right is the new one.

I’m making sure the branding is more clear that this is part of a full 13-book series.

Suggestions? Ideas?

Let me know if you’d like to take a look at the ebook to offer feedback on its content!

Success! Just finished an enormous effort and updated books 3-4-5 in my author’s essentials series.

Book 3 is an overview of the various ways you can get published.

Book 4 is all about traditional publishing including magazines.

Book 5 is a dense, in-depth section-by-section-with-screenshots explanation of how to self-publish on Amazon and Lulu for both ebooks and paperbacks. It also covers Draft2Digital, SmashWords, WattPad, etc.

I’d love to have some beta-readers of my updated versions. Let me know if you’d like to see one of these!

What are you up to?

Hurrah! Hurrah! All three time-viewing books are wholly loaded onto Amazon in Kindle and Paperback form.

The series is complete.

Enjoy book one for FREE please download it to take a look! Thanks!

What are you up to today?

For decades, the Writer’s Market book and then website was a reasonably independent publication. Both were quite popular releases by F+W Books. The Writer’s Market was a massive database of publishing, agent, and magazine information. The hundreds of pages covered the vast number of publisher options fairly.

Unfortunately, by June 2019 F+W Media was in bankruptcy. A judge oversaw the selling off of its assets. One of those prime assets was F+W Books. The very name F+W comes from its two main components – Farm Quarterly and the Writer’s Digest. Writer’s Digest was the magazine while Writer’s Market was the annual book (and then website).

The organization also published some of my favorite art magazines – Watercolor Artist, Southwest Art, and Artist’s Magazine.

The fact that these guys could go bankrupt shows how our world is always changing.

While those art magazines went off to Peak Media Properties, the book section including Writer’s Digest and Writer’s Market was bought up by Penguin Random House.

Once Penguin Random House took control, the Writer’s Market website pretty much immediately came down. And as of February 2020 it is STILL NOT UP AGAIN. That’s pretty phenomenal for a resource that thousands upon thousands of writers depended on for information.

So right now it’s a waiting game. We’ll have to see when this finally resolves itself.

Woo hoo book 3 in my submarine book trilogy is going live! That means this particular series is pretty much complete.

Time to celebrate!! :).

Maybe I have some bubbly around here somewhere … what are you guys up to?