Okay, I admit it, blogging has taken a back seat to doing what I have been blogging about.
Whew. I have ALL my books (7) now up and SELLING on Kindle, Nook, and iPad with Kobo in the works. Kobo is a bit daunting, but we are working on it. Continue reading →
I’ve been so busy preparing books for various e-platforms that I have neglected this blog. Also, other authors are emailing asking the details of how I am doing this. I promise I will list the steps on this blog–and in Take Back the Book the book, coming whenever I have the time to write it all up. Continue reading →
A high school in Florida ditches textbooks for Kindles. That’s right, everybody gets an e-book device free! No more lugging textbooks or excuses for leaving them in the locker or at home.
Three more novels being uploaded this weekend including my major bestsellers The Midwife, The Midwife’s Advice, and Code Ezra. I will explain how I got to this point shortly, but for now these are books that were published almost pre-computer! In fact, The Midwife was one of the first novels ever written on a word processor (IBM System 6). Since I had no digital version of the edited work, I searched for a way to convert print to type without creating endless typos and requiring word-for-word proofing. Continue reading →
Done! First book is up and running on both Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad (iBookstore). I Speak For This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate is still widely used for Guardian ad Litem (CASA) training and I wanted it out there first. Continue reading →
Although there are more practical e-book covers, like the one with the embedded light, I find my Oberon so beautiful, so tactile and satisfying.
Off the coast of Brest, Brittany, France
I bought my first Kindle to take on a trip to Europe. I needed at least 6 or 8 books for the trip, right? Like Julia Child’s My Life in France since I was going to be in Provence and David Sedaris’s When You Are Engulfed in Flames to keep me amused in airports, not to mention the Ken Follett’s big fat World Without End for Gothic cathedral immersion therapy. And more in case my mind wandered or I was stranded somewhere. A library in my backpack was a dream come true.
So, if it is not self-publishing, what do we call the process where an established author converts her works to various electronic formats without going through a name-brand publishing house?
I am expropriating iPublishing. (Contributed by the brilliant Mel Sherer) Continue reading →
TAKE BACK THE BOOK is not about self-publishing. It is not about books that have not been vetted for true merit, have not been edited professionally or otherwise not deemed worthy of widespread distribution through commercial and literary marketplaces. Continue reading →