Tag: independent author
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Schade of Night Book Review
I read JP Wilder’s Schade of Night this past weekend and I wanted to share my review of that. Here’s the book description below: Schade Lee, ex-FBI agent turned PI, is on a mission to prove her dreams wrong. While on a case to find runaway Kylie Berson, Schade follows a gruesome path where she learns…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Alpha and Beta Readers
One of the biggest fears that I face as an author is the dread of wondering what people will think. The reaction of family and friends is one thing… but what about people you don’t know who are going to pick up the book in a store or glance at it on kindle? For that…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Publishing an Audiobook pt 3
This is the final post I’ll have as far as building an audiobook with Amazon’s ACX system. In the first two installments, I talked about the process, first enrolling/selecting your book, then choosing a narrator and finally proofing the narrated sections. You can see those two sections here and here. It was a time-consuming…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Economics of Writing
This is going to be one of those boring articles where I go into one of the important professional aspects of writing. This is both from my personal perspective as well as from talking with other authors and going through some internet research. There’s lots of information out there on the subject, because it’s near…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Editing
If you’re an independent author like me, when you get to the point where you’ve finished your manuscript, you need to start editing. This really gives you three options: self editing, getting someone to help, or hiring a professional. Each of these has some positive and negative aspects, and I’ll do a rundown of my…
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April Writing Update
Now that Renegades: Origins and Renegades: A Murder of Crowes are out on schedule (more or less), I have to move on to the next projects. I say projects, because I’m working on multiple tasks and I’m going to be really busy over the next few months. My writing goals for the next four months…
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Writing Progress & Update
I thought it best that I update my readers (or at least those of you who check here for inf0) on my current work and progress. Right now I’m done writing Renegades: A Murder of Crowes, the fifth novella in the series. That will be posted singly. I’m currently working on Lab Notes, a short…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Publishing an Audiobook pt 2
This post is about the review processes and the work required to get it to the ‘finished’ stage. Read the previous post here for information about getting the process started. Any self-published author can tell you: self-publishing is hard. It’s not just getting the novel ready, it is also doing the edits, getting the cover…
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Independent Author Toolbag: Publishing an Audiobook Pt 1
This is mostly aimed at other authors, but for those who are interested in what goes into it, perhaps this will be entertaining. This first part is about the process I went through to market my books, The Fallen Race and Renegades: Deserter’s Redemption to a producer all the way through to the selection of a narrator/producer…
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Taxes for Writers, Part 1
In writing, as in many things, there is no getting away from the absolutes: Death and Taxes. The good news, such as it is, is that writing can have a number of perks, chief among them is making you a bit of money. The bad news, of course, is that you’ll have to pay taxes…
Kal Spriggs 