Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of working with an editor. She shares the lessons she learned during the line editing process
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One Travel Writer’s Journey for a Professional Line Edit (Part 2)
Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of finding an editor. She shares the lessons she learned during the process of writing and editing her first book.
One Travel Writer’s Journey for a Professional Line Edit (Part 1)
Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of whether or not she needs a professional line edit. She shares the lessons she learned during the process of writing and editing her first book.
A Beginners Guide to Google Play Books Publishing
Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Google Play Books to earn more royalties than going via a distributor.
A Beginners Guide to Kobo Writing Life
Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Kobo Writing Life to earn more royalties than going via a distributor.
A Beginners Guide to Barnes & Noble Press
Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Barnes & Noble Press to earn more royalties than going via a distributor.
My 90 Day Experiment for nonfiction ebooks with KDP Select
I’m conducting an experiment by enrolling all my travel guides and nonfiction books into KDP select for 90 days to see how much royalty I receive from Amazon for page reads.
How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal
This guest post from Reedsy highlights the 5 key elements you need to consider when putting together your nonfiction book proposal to pitch a publisher.
A Beginners Guide to Apple Books Publishing
Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Apple Books. You can create gorgeous interactive books, but is it worth the effort?
Beginners Guide to self-publishing direct with ebook Retailers
Introducing my five part series: Beginner’s Guide to ebook Self-Publishing Retailers to help you decide whether to go direct with a retailer or via a distributor.
Creating your flowable ebook file for Amazon KDP
There are multiple options for creating a flowable ebook file to upload to Amazon KDP. Choose one of these paid or free tools or software to take your book from final draft to published.
3 Ways to Approach your eBook Formatting
Do you want to take a simple or complex approach for formatting your ebook? There’s many paths you can take, and there’s no right answers. Just what’s right for YOU!
A Beginners guide to the pros and cons of flowable vs. fixed ebook file formats
The impact of flowable vs. fixed layout text layouts in your ebook. The pros and cons of choosing the optimal ebook file format for your content. Fixed vs. Flowable.
Don’t know if you want to publish an ebook or paperback?
We look at three different format strategy approaches based on your experience and budget available. Should you just publish an ebook, or a paperback as well?
A Beginners Guide to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
This article is part of my Beginner’s Guide to Self-publishing direct with ebook Retailers series and takes a closer look at publishing with Amazon KDP.
Which Amazon KDP ebook royalty rate should I choose?
Take the guesswork out of whether you should include images in your Amazon KDP ebook. Here’s a way to calculate the financial implications of choosing the 70% vs 35% royalty rate.
Benefits & Disadvantages of self-publishing a Print on Demand paperback
Read about the benefits and disadvantages of self-publishing a POD paperback, before you decide on your indie author publishing strategy.
Benefits of self-publishing an ebook
Read about the benefits and disadvantages of self-publishing an ebook, before you decide on your indie author publishing strategy.
3 Approaches for self-publishing your travel guides
We look at three different self-publishing format strategies based on the level of effort you’re willing to invest to become an indie author. Check out whether you should choose a simple, intermediate, or advanced plan.
Our new How Travel Writers Self-Publish Podcast
Are you ready to establish your subject matter expertise and earn passive income by transitioning from travel blogger to author, but don’t know where to start? This new self-publishing podcast will help you write, publish, and sell your books.
Hot Off The Press: New Release Travel Guides August 2017
Each month I’m scrolling through the New Release Travel Guides on Amazon to see which Traditionally & Indie published guides have hit the marketplace. I also provide my commentary about branding and design so you can get best practice tips and advice for your own travel guide.
Go Digital or Go Home: Is it time to self-publish an ebook?
Why travel bloggers should go digital and publish an e-book. You have lots of content on your travel blog, so maybe its time to collate it into an e-book travel guide.
Tools And Resources For Authors And Writers
Here’s my reference page of Resources For Authors And Writers, and includes all of the invaluable tools that I couldn’t live without. Writing Tools and Resources Scrivener (available for Mac and PC) for everything you write. Can also be used to compile simple ebooks. You can download a trial version of Scrivener to test it out before you purchase. […]
Top 5 Essential Plugins for your WordPress site
Here’s my list of the Top 5 Essential Plugins for your Wordpress site. These will help you design a better site, save you time when managing your site, and will help you become a better writer and blogger.
88 Ways to Promote your Self-Published Book
Here’s an article round up that includes 88 ways to promote your self published book. Find out what to do (and what NOT to do) when you create your marketing and promotion plan for your book.
Download a March Project Planner Template
Download my Free March 2015 Project Planning Template with areas for Milestones, Goals, Objectives, Tasks and Brainstorming. It will make you more efficient & streamline your planning for the new year.
Brad Swift Shares his Scrivener Writing Tips
Today I’m pleased to welcome Guest Blogger Brad Swift, an Author who combines his coaching and writing at “Writing: Tool for Transformation” He and I are members of the same Scivener Facebook group, and recently we were chatting about some of his favourite Scrivener features.
I Inspired Scrivener for Blogging
I’ve come across a new Scrivener Blogger and turns out my reviews and write-ups were part of the inspiration to get Bridget to use this writer’s software for blogging.
Download a February Project Planner Template
Download my Free February 2015 Project Planning Template with areas for Milestones, Goals, Objectives, Tasks and Brainstorming. It will make you more efficient & streamline your planning for the new year.
Scrivener Template for a Writers Notebook
Find out how to download the “Writers Notebook for Scrivener” template. Which has an extensive Writing Helps & Tips section at the top, that includes Dan Wells 7-point plot system, “11 tips to increase your productivity” and “How to make stories Rock”.
Download a January Project Planner Template
Download my Free January 2015 Project Planning Template with areas for Milestones, Goals, Objectives, Tasks and Brainstorming. It will make you more efficient & streamline your planning for the new year.
Using Scrivener for Social Media Management
I started using the Scrivener writing software to manage my Content Strategy and Social Media Management. This article explains the Binder and Folder Structure and how I’m using Icons to tag my content.
Benefits of Using Scrivener for Blogging
Want to know how other bloggers are using Scrivener to keep them organized? Here’s a summary of Scrivener Benefits and Features in this article round-up from three bloggers with different approaches.
Blog Business Plan: Should I write one?
A Blog Business Plan is critical for building a successful blog. Read this list to discover you why you need to write a Blog Business Plan for your website.
Blogger Statistics Infographic
This infographic was based on data from Technorati and Blogpulse and covers who’s in the blogsphere and how often they publish a new blog post.
How to use Scrivener for Freelance & Blog Posts
We look how blogger Bea is using Scrivener for Novels, Freelance Writing, but not Blogging.
How to use Scrivener for Freelance Writing
Tips on how to set up your Project Binder when you use Scrivener for Freelance Writing tracking. How to set up your binder files and use the outliner view for mass edits to your meta-data.
Product Descriptions: Define your Target Audience
Before you write any web content you need to know who you are writing for. Whether you call them Target Audience, Customer or Sales Opportunity Leads – you should know a little bit about them.
Infographic: Field Guide to Procrastinators
An amusing infographic detailing the different types of procrastinator. What type of procrastinator are you?