Should You Buy Your Own ISBN Numbers?
Your book’s ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is the 10 or 13 digit number assigned to every published book, and identifies things like edition, publisher and physical properties. Each...
View ArticleBuilding Your Book’s Front Matter
I’ve always loved long introductions in the front matter of the books of my favourite authors. Not sure if it’s just me, but finding out more about them, their lives and thoughts has inspired me since...
View ArticleMore of the Same
There is no harm in sticking with a good thing. Once you’ve written and published your book, that doesn’t mean that you have to forget the people who live in it forever, and move on to something...
View ArticleFun with Filing
It’s a good idea to keep your virtual filing cabinets in good condition. Rather than having to search through a mile and a half of documents for a document whose title you forgot a year ago, create...
View ArticlePublishing New Paperback Editions
If you’re planning major changes to your book that will warrant a brand new paperback edition, or if you’ve acquired your own ISBN number and want to use that instead of the free issue CreateSpace...
View ArticleHow Politically Correct Should Writers Be?
A while ago a well-known author published a book about a rich, handsome man who pretty much had anything anyone could wish for becoming paralyzed in an accident. He and the woman hired to care for him...
View ArticleGive Your eBook as Much Love as Your Paperback
WHEN formatting your paperback manuscript for CreateSpace you can get away with a fair amount of fancy formatting. Fancy fonts, dropcaps, inserted widgets, bullets, tables, and all sorts of other...
View ArticleQuick Tips for Paperback Page Numbering
When numbering the pages of your paperback manuscript, the thing quite a lot of Indies have trouble with is that they use Page Breaks rather than Section Breaks. A Page Break is just that—starting a...
View ArticleUse Your Thesaurus with Caution
As writers, words are our friends. Our best times are when they flow from us with beauty or power. They can sometimes trip us up too though, when we overthink them. A thesaurus can be very helpful when...
View ArticleCreateSpace – Final Things to Check
So you’ve finally got your page numbers right. Check that you’ve Justified your text for your CreateSpace book. I know that some authors choose not to justify text in their eBooks (not me), but a paper...
View ArticleEmbedding Your Fonts for Paperback Books
There are lots of fabulous fonts around these days for us to use in our paperback books, and I think that making them visually attractive as well as wonderful to read is a great idea. Using a plain...
View ArticleWhen Words Won’t Come
We’ve all shared tips on how to write every day and how to fight that devil, procrastination. Or in other words, how to nip our laziness in the bud. Laziness is indeed a real thing, but often when we...
View ArticleA Little Hook
Every writer has his or her own process. Ideas come, sometimes in the form of virtual Mack trucks that appear out of nowhere, usually at the most inopportune of times, creating the need for you to stop...
View ArticleHow to Format Bullet Size
Microsoft Word is powerful software and generally the Indie author’s friend, but sometimes its intuitive automatic tweaking can cause headaches that can take days to get to the bottom of, and at other...
View ArticleWhat To Leave Behind?
Should we be thinking about money when we write? This is one of those questions that scribblers like to ponder, and occasionally have heated debates about. Are we writing for the love of writing, or to...
View ArticleDRM or Not for Amazon
When you load your book up to Amazon you will get to choose whether or not to enable Digital Rights Management. It is important to note here that this particular choice cannot be undone. Short of...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing and Formatting Quick Tips
One of the biggest challenges to Indies is getting a professionally published looking book when up against the costs of editing, proofreading, formatting and cover designs. If you can afford these...
View ArticleWorking With Formatters
Quite a few of my clients have come to me to have their books formatted, and then found themselves unable to update their already published works with their latest releases because they don’t have the...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
All of us here at LWI wish you a prosperous and productive year ahead filled with lots of happy writing and reading of new and wonderful things.
View ArticleEm Dash or Ellipsis
Image Courtesy Pixabay An ellipsis is three or four dots with spaces in between . . . and an em dash is a long dash, usually made by typing two single (en) dashes — next to each other, usually with no...
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