Part I ~ Part II ~ Part III – Part IV Now that we’ve talked about wide vs narrow and MOBI vs EPUB, I’d like to turn our attention to retailers and distribution channels. You probably noticed at the end of Part II that I’d planned to cover the actual creation of MOBI and EPUB files in Part…
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Part I ~ Part II ~ Part III – Part IV Starting now in Part II, I’ll talk directly to you the author about the mechanics of going wide. (Don’t ask many how many parts there will be… I’m a pantster). It’s a pretty broad topic, but I think I can boil it down to a few base topics. I’ll start…
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Part I ~ Part II ~ Part III – Part IV There are roughly fifteen “I don’t mean this” jokes about going wide. None of mine are that funny, so I’ll jump right into the author-speak version of what going wide means: the distribution of an ebook across multiple retailers. First things first. Why is this a question?…
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Being a writer, struggling to find words for stories only to discover the real struggle is to find an audience, has its frustrations. In some ways, it winds up acting as a metaphor for all of life. Here’s poem I wrote on the topic. It started as a vent. Where’s my audience? Where’s my success?…
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Gentle reader, if you are familiar with my works to date (middle grade fantasy novels), what you will find below will make no sense. If you aren’t familiar with my novels, it still won’t make any sense. Behold, the opening lines of A Boy Like You, a most unusual story I’ve been contemplating, but have…
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