One year ago today I released the first part of my post-apocalyptic novel about faith, This Broken Earth on several digital outlets. All three books as one compendium is available for .99 cents on Kindle, Nook, and iBooks. It has been a year of experiments, small successes, and hard lessons learned. When I originally releasedContinue reading ““This Broken Earth” – 1 Year Anniversary”
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New Promo Video: This Broken Earth
I put together the following promotional video for my novel This Broken Earth. I spent a lot of time with public domain footage, iMovie, Garageband and huge headaches trying to get past the current error messages on iBooks Author (which I will be posting about soon). I spent the whole day trying to get the iBooksContinue reading “New Promo Video: This Broken Earth”
How to Customize iBook Author Templates
I have searched the web far and wide to find awesome pre-made templates for iBook Author, because it seemed to me that I could not modify the pre-made templates at all. However, I found a quick and easy 7 step process to creating completely custom templates for iBook Author and am offering this tutorial freeContinue reading “How to Customize iBook Author Templates”
Using Scrivener and iBooks Author to Create an iTunes iBook
As many of you know, I absolutely love Scrivener, which is in many ways so much more than a word processor. If you are a do-it-yourself publisher and just want to publish a book through iTunes, you will need a couple of things first: An iTunes sales account. Sign up here. Scrivener for Mac orContinue reading “Using Scrivener and iBooks Author to Create an iTunes iBook”
E-Publishing Predictions for 2013
Today I received an e-mail update from Mark Coker because I am a Smashwords member (that is, I have published to Smashwords and they see fit to send updates my way about their company). Mark Coker, president of Smashwords.com, which is a wonderful vehicle for self publishers to publish their work for free in every formatContinue reading “E-Publishing Predictions for 2013”
Scrivener 2: Even More Bells and Whistles
As most of you know, I write long form texts on Scrivener because it is probably, in my opinion, the best word processor software a novelist could ever use. A few days ago, I updated to Scrivener 2 and found several features that were even better than the original. 1. Exporting to OpenOffice and WordContinue reading “Scrivener 2: Even More Bells and Whistles”
Writing Is Hard Work 