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Next Project

I’m so excited that the next book is already well under way, though, to be honest, I may have ‘cheated’ slightly. Rather than starting from scratch, I have a first draft from about fifteen years ago, and this is the one I’m writing next. The …

I could have picked any of his books, but Harry Harrison is, my opinion, one of the most under-rated and influential writers of the Twentieth Century. What do you mean you’ve never heard of him? Harrison wrote space-operas, parodies and wicked commentaries on society, and …

I don’t claim to be an expert by any means, so this one is more of my experiences of creating covers for paperbacks using KDP. And it can be a swine. First off, some people will like using the Amazon Cover Creator, but I don’t; …

Master Versions – paperback

If you haven’t already, read through my previous post on formatting pdf and e-books, as it might highlight some things you need to do, but I’m assuming you’ve followed that and have a Word file ready and specific to the paperback. The next bit is …

Master versions -Ebook and PDF

So, your manuscript is checked and ready for publication formatting. First job, as difficult as it is, go away and do something else for a week, then come back, re-read, and correct those typos you still missed, which will annoy the hell out of you …

So Much Going On!

So, where do I start? Brief hiatus on the formatting blogposts, but don’t worry, I haven’t stopped and they’ll carry on appearing very soon. The thing is, I’ve suddenly been inundated with “things”. As you’ll have seen from my most recent post, I have the …

I hope you like this! I’ve been working with those lovely design people at Blush again, to replace the self-made cover for Man In The Bath. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the original, though having my own toes in the public domain did worry …

The Joy of Calibre

I know a lot of people use different software, but today is about a program I use called Calibre. If you work on a Mac you may have better (paid options) but Calibre is free, tried and tested, virus-free and still regularly updated. Nope, I’m …

The Joys of Formatting2

I’ve already mentioned Styles, and I will again today, as I go through a couple of very practical tips for formatting in Word, starting with an invaluable one. As I mentioned before, a number of e-book conversion programmes have real problems with some forms of …

The Joys of Formatting1

So, content complete, its time to try and make this as readable and professional as possible, and as I’ve leant from the previous books, its a little more complicated than you might think. One of the reasons for this is the capability I want for …