EXCELLENT advice from the wonderful writer of “Thrillers With a Heart,” CJ Lyons, who advises authors to:
1) Write a great book
2) Wait for your readers to find the book
3) Repeat Continue reading
How long should my book be?
Of course, that depends on how long it takes you to tell the story or deliver your message. The standard for ebooks tends to be a minimum of 10,000 words, which would be the lower end ebook quick reads. For print books, they should ideally be 300 pages or more. Continue reading
Often, you may wish to use photos or graphics to illustrate your book. For a print book, your photos will need to be a minimum resolution of 300dpi or the illustration will be pixilated and fuzzy in print. You will need to use a quality photo-editing program to increase the resolution depth if the photo is less than 300dpi. This is not about the physical size of the photo, but is instead how close together the pixels are that create the image. This is likely one of the most challenging parts of self-publishing for the novice. I highly recommend seeking a crash course from someone you know who is adept at photo editing if you do not feel confident working on the images yourself. Continue reading
It seems as though everyone I talk to has at least one book inside them, waiting to be born. Sadly, most will die without ever seeing the light of day. Why? At this point in our development as a society it is for nothing more than lack of time and/or motivation. Continue reading
The beauty of self-publishing is that beyond your standard software, there is almost no overhead to publishing. At any point of the process, there are people who are perfectly willing to take your money to do what you can do yourself with a lot of patience and persistence. It takes time and there is a learning curve, but with a rudimentary knowledge of word and graphic processing, you can do it all yourself. Here are the basic programs and tools you will need: Continue reading
