by Ali Shaw | May 1, 2016 | Fiction, Memoir, Tips
by Jennifer Zaczek, Collaborative Editor Last week, I received an email from a client saying that she’d committed “a big oops.” She’d sent me the wrong version of her manuscript for ebook formatting. All the work had to be redone. If this hasn’t happened to you, it...
by Ali Shaw | Mar 1, 2016 | Design, Fiction, Memoir, Tips
by Vinnie Kinsella, Collaborative Designer and Publications Consultant When you walk into a building for the first time, what do you notice? Is it the art on the walls or the fact that some walls are load bearing and others aren’t? If you’re like most people, you...
by Ali Shaw | Nov 1, 2015 | Fiction, Memoir
by Ali McCart Shaw, executive editor It’s thrilling and there’s no mystery about it—Indigo is growing! We welcome Jennifer Zaczek to the Indigo team. She hails from Florida but has come to call Portland home. After seven years in the traditional publishing...
by Ali Shaw | Oct 1, 2015 | Memoir, Publishing
by Kristen Hall-Geisler, Indigo collaborative editor and writing coach, freelance journalist Many of the readers of Indigo’s monthly newsletter (as well as the author of this article) have gotten help with the publishing process from our own Vinnie Kinsella. Now he’s...
by Nicki Yowell | Mar 1, 2014 | Memoir, Tips, Writing
by Camille Cole Every family has a story, lots of stories, in fact—some legends, some simple tales of the lives of ordinary people. Narrative history is a genre that allows us to write creatively about experiences and historical events by focusing on people who share...
by Nicki Yowell | Mar 1, 2013 | Memoir, Tips, Writing
Dear Indigo, Whenever I sit down to write a personal story, I have grandiose ideas that I can’t wait to tell. But what comes out is an essay full of broad opinions, not a story. How do I get my writing process to shift from exposition to narrative? Signed, Trouble...
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