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Judy Evans @JudyEv (381808) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Apr 25

I used to belong to a writing group. You would put your writing up and others would critique it for you. There were also competitions from time to time. I helped several people by editing their work and even got a credit in the...

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Self-publishing Romance

Samantha Gardner @samgardner (11) 20 Sep 24

Any romance writers here and self-published? How do you promote your books if you're on low budget?

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Essentials in Book Publishing

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 30 Mar 23

For a traditional publisher to accept a book for publication, it needs to have several things essential in every book. Now, I expect you already have the book written, so these are the necessary steps after you complete your first...

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Could Self-Publishing Leave Me Bankrupt?!

Arianna @Borlotti (268) • United States 16 Dec 20

So, I'm writing a book -- or I'm soon to start writing my book, at the moment it's just a lot of notes! -- and I've been exploring which route to take when the time comes: whether to go for an agent and a traditional deal or...

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Should I Look for an Agent or Self-Publish My Book?

Arianna @Borlotti (268) • United States 15 Dec 20

I'd best come clean on this one at the outset. I haven't written my book yet. But I've got a notepad full of ideas. It'll be a romance story, a novel. I know there are many experienced writers on here, and I'm hoping that some of...

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Headed for the Lions Den

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 11 Jul 19

This morning, in just a few minutes, I will be leaving to go to my Lions Club meeting where I will be this weeks presenter. I was asked, as I believe I may have mentioned before (please not clever prevarication) to do a program...

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Wasn't able to accomplish what I had planned to do today

Lena Kovadlo @lovebuglena (52144) • Staten Island, New York 17 Jun 19

There were things I needed to do today but I decided to try working on my friend's book that she wants published and figure out how to fix the issues I am having with image quality during PDF conversion. I didn't want to put it...

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31 Day Writing Tips - Day 22

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 22 May 19

I'm glad these tips are helping you. Today, I'm going to deviate from writing to publishing, specifically self-publishing. I received a suggestion a few days ago to write on this topic. If you Google self-publishing, you will...

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Complications

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 4 Oct 17

I've taken care of everything I need to regarding Freedom's Cry. But one thing I need is to have control of Scarred, and I don't have that. But I will. What that means is that I will need to re-publish Scarred. I know,...

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Marketing Ideas?

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 28 Aug 17

Does anyone have any creative, inexpensive ways to market an ebook. Or, if anyone knows of any self-publishing or new author publishers, I would appreciate that information. I am not interested in vanity publishing, though.

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Let Me Tell You About Self-Publishing ebooks

Morgan @OneOfMany (12150) • United States 4 Apr 17

Since a lot of people are getting interested in it lately (from what I have seen through posts) thinking that it might be the next best thing when it comes to earning money, let me tell you about my experience through Kindle. I...

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Diary Sunday 15th January 2016

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 15 Jan 17

An active day for a change despite the prospect of going out in a wretched downpour. Our creative writing workshop was a little different today being a prepared presentation on the best approaches to self-publishing, especially...

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How to Self Publish - Part 5 - eBooks and Kindle

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 17 Dec 16

Most of my discussion so far has been regarding paperback books. However, it's pretty simple to also offer eBooks, and a great way to increase your readership. One way is to use a converter like Calibre and convert your PDF to...

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How to self publish Part 4 - selling your work

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 16 Dec 16

Now that you have a book, you want to sell it, right? CreateSpace does some limited marketing even if you don't pay for the marketing package. I remember how happy I was when I had just bought some Joel Rosenberg books and got an...

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How to self publish: Part 3 - Preparing and Uploading your work

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 15 Dec 16

Don't let anyone tell you that you need to pay for an ISBN, or for submitting things to the US Copyright Office to "protect your copyright." Keeping the file on your own computer is fine, that will show the time stamp on it, in...

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How to self publish - part 2 - formatting books and getting a cover

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 14 Dec 16

It's not nearly as hard as it seems to get your book ready to be published. The main thing is to have decent software for it. I believe Word can do most of the things I talk about it, but personally I use Libre Office. It's...

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How to self publish: Part 1 - Options for Self Publishing

Rohvannyn Shaw @Rohvannyn (3098) • United States 14 Dec 16

Whether you have a novel, a series of short stories, a poetry book, a manga, or a children's book, there's an option for you. It's very possible to publish both print books and ebooks yourself, without paying a cent. There are...

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I wish to self-publish my poems

Xavier Bage @franxav (14588) • India 17 Sep 16

I wish to self publish my English poems in pothi.com. Has any myLottian done it? I'd be glad to learn from him.

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Is republishing a book a good idea?

Lena Kovadlo @lovebuglena (52144) • Staten Island, New York 29 Jul 16

No matter how great of an author you are a few mistakes can still slip from view even if you hire a professional editor to help you spot everything before you publish that book. Hey, even big time authors have mistakes in their...

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This might be a dumb question, but I'mm ask it anyway...

N.B. Yomi @Hanyouyomi (2186) • Dallas, Texas 10 Jul 16

I originally joined Mylot to earn money to get my harddrive reformatted. Problem is that this site pays at the end or fifteenth of every month. And it's only $5 assuming you don't raise more thasn that at those two points. I'm...

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