by Nicki Yowell | Oct 30, 2024 | Book Design, Publishing, Tips
Dear Indigo, I’m trying to format my book for printing. I wrote it in Word (or Pages) and inserted photos and captions along the way. It started off fine, but the more I get into it, if I try to make any changes to the text or the photos, sometimes the photo jumps all...
by Nicki Yowell | Oct 4, 2024 | Publishing, Tips, Writing
By Nicki Yowell, Office & Communication Specialist It’s another one of “those days.” You know the kind I mean. It’s an unremarkable Tuesday, and I feel the bleak blahs coming on and a deadline peering over my shoulder. But fear not, brain, it’s a creativity ritual...
by Nicki Yowell | May 2, 2024 | Marketing, Publishing, Tips
By Ali Shaw, Executive Editor In publishing, we talk about book proposals. These are typically for nonfiction books and are basically project proposals that we write in order to pitch the idea to agents and publishers. They help the publishers evaluate the book idea,...
by Nicki Yowell | Feb 29, 2024 | Publishing, Tips, Writing
When I’m in a rut, creative or otherwise, the obvious solution usually seems to be: get out, go for a walk. A tie-on of the tennis shoes is definitely one of my pet magic tricks for conjuring up a page or two. The time-tested strategy of a new perspective or a change...
by Nicki Yowell | Feb 1, 2024 | Book Design, Marketing, Publishing
by Jenny Kimura, Collaborative Designer Everyone knows that to market your book right, you need just the right front cover image. You might spend hours with your designer going back and forth on the fonts, colors, imagery, and placement. You might want to add a...
by Nicki Yowell | Jan 22, 2024 | Announcements, Events, Publishing
TAKE NOTE: The monthly publishing Q&A with Ali Shaw originally scheduled for January 23, 12:00–1:00 p.m Pacific, is CANCELLED. Future sessions will be on Zoom on the fourth Tuesday, 12:00–1:00 p.m Pacific. Mark your calendar: February 27, 2024 March 26, 2024...
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