Let's Talk Publishing When we begin writing our book, we envision it on the shelves of major bookstores sooner rather than later. We soon learn that’s not the reality of p […]

I’m putting the finishing touches on the update of my book, Formatting e-Books for Writers: Convert Your Word File to Kindle. Wow! I had no idea so many things had changed, especially at A […]

Maybe because I read more e-books, especially fiction, than bound books, I’ve thought publishing my own should begin with e-books. I’ve learned, though, it’s not always true. Well, as I get in the wayback machi […]

Very Small Niche
If the market is specialized, most traditional publishers won’t consider the proposal. How is a small niche defined? Usually, the potential is fewer than five thousand books sold. Or it could b […]

Why Consider Self-Publishing? Part 1
A Little History
As we learn about self-publishing it’s important to know the path of those before us. The process seems easy now. It hasn’t always been that way.

Dan Poy […]

For decades, the literary world dismissed self-published authors as amateurs and hacks who lacked the talent to land a book deal. But that attitude gradually began to change with the rise of e-books and the […]

To carry a load without resting, to be not bothered by heat or cold, and to always be content: These things we can learn from a donkey. – Pakistani proverb

The temperature is a brutal 108. There stands Jeb in h […]