by kev | 22nd Feb 2017 | Advice, For Authors
Jutoh (http://www.jutoh.com/) is the only tool I use for ebook compiling. It’s very, very simple to go from a document in Word format (whether output from Word itself, from Google Docs, Scrivener or whatever) to an ebook and, in this video, I show how to create...
by kev | 12th Feb 2017 | Advice, For Authors
I work for myself and could easily fill every waking hour with tasks related to those businesses. In fact, after completing 50,000 words during Camp NaNoWriMo in 2016, I allowed myself to put my writing on the back burner and wrote almost nothing for five months. The...
by kev | 21st Jun 2016 | Advice, For Authors, Writing Tools
Want to get more writing done? Or, indeed, any work that involves sitting at a computer. Buy yourself a cheap kitchen timer and choose a time between 15 minutes and, say, 35 minutes (start small). Press Start and work on your project exclusively until the beeper goes...
by kev | 5th May 2016 | Advice, For Authors, Writing Tools
I’ve heard Draft2Digital mentioned a couple of times, including on The Creative Penn podcast. I’ve three books published with Kindle Direct Publishing and had made the decision to remove the two lesser sellers from KDP Select and see whether wider...
by kev | 16th Oct 2015 | Advice, For Authors
How to win at NaNoWriMo [You can find my NaNoWriMo profile here – please Buddy me!] On 28th October 2014, I made the snap decision to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. On the 1st of November I had nothing more than a vague idea of a theme and how...
by kev | 2nd Mar 2015 | Advice
Why bother? I launched the first edition of Your Craft Business: A Step by Step Guide back in October 2012 and, of the many thousands sold since then for every paperback I’ve sold via Amazon I’ve sold four Kindle ebooks. Desktop-publishing the book,...
