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iPhone & iPad

Do I App or do iBook?

Apple have followed Amazon’s lead and iBooks can now have audio and video embedded in them.

See my blog Do iPad or do I Kindle for more on this … and note that, somewhat ironically, Kindle Enhanced Editions (as Amazon called them) are only for Kindle Readers on iPhones and iPads not Kindles themselves.

So with increased functionality [...]

Publishing

Author Platform #005: ePublishing

So you’ve written your ebook but how do you get it out to the world and even start making money from it?

Option 1: PDF

Well the simplest way is as it has always been – to create a PDF file. This not only preserves the formatting of you source document but ensures it can’t [easily] be tampered [...]

iPhone & iPad

Do iPad or do I Kindle?

Well I never thought I’d ever buy Knitting for Dummies. But I just got a copy via the Amazon Kindle Store to read, or is that to watch, on my iPad.

So am I taking up crocheting books or, as fabulous author’s coach @ledasammarco suggested on Twitter, knitting light bulbs?

No, I am just checking out how embedded [...]

iPhone & iPad

Publishing in hands of authors

If one of your books sells in a book shop, as an author, you are likely to get less than 10% of the selling price.
This is not a gripe but a fact, as other people in the chain need to be duly recompensed for their part in getting the book on the shelf.

With the introduction of [...]

Resources

20 Useful Twitter Links for Writers

Calling all authors … did you know you could use Twitter to do all of this ?

Post samples of your words

Post your pictures & art

Post audio readings of your work

Post 12 seconds of video

Connect with other authors, publishers and agents like these

100+ of the best authors on Twitter

70+ Non-fiction authors on Twitter

25 Good Author, [...]

Authors Tales

How I became an author … Wendy Salter

The pleasures to be enjoyed from reading books are innumerable.
The path to writing your own book is tortuous and lengthy … or is it?

You either like writing or you don’t, which immediately isolates a relatively small portion of the population
who are likely to write a book, and that was a revelation [...]