by Nicki Yowell | Oct 2, 2019 | Book Design, Publishing, Tips
by Laura Garwood, Collaborative Editor I recently toured I Street Press at Sacramento Public Library with my local EFA chapter. I was excited to tour because I had not yet seen the library’s famed Espresso Book Machine. For those who don’t know, an Espresso Book...
by Nicki Yowell | Sep 1, 2019 | Tips, Writing
By Kristen Hall-Geisler Summer vacation is over, and that means one thing: back-to-school supplies! One of my greatest indulgences as an adult is trawling the back-to-school aisles and filling a basket with notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, folders, and whatever else...
by Nicki Yowell | Jun 28, 2019 | Publishing, Tips, Writing
by Ali Shaw, Executive Editor I come from a family of artists. Drawing, painting, graphic design, music—you name the medium, and most likely someone in my family has an impressive portfolio in it. Sadly, I did not inherit their skills, but I do have a deep...
by Nicki Yowell | May 31, 2019 | Marketing, Publishing, Tips
Guest post by Jessie Glenn, Owner of Mindbuck Media Book Publicity With books, prerelease timing may not ensure the Nobel Prize in Literature, but it does ensure the opportunity to be absolutely positive that a book has the best possible chance at success. After all...
by Nicki Yowell | May 1, 2019 | Editing, Tips, Writing
by Jenn Zaczek Someone left their jacket on the bus. After reading that sentence, are you worried that the grammar police are coming to get me? It’s possible that you’re not too worried, and that’s because the use of the singular they is becoming more accepted....
by Nicki Yowell | Mar 4, 2019 | Editing, Tips, Writing
by Laura Garwood Do you know that words starting with a prefix, like mini-, over-, non-, or –, are generally closed compounds? Well, neither does your computer. Thus, if you write superpowerful, precourse, noninfrastructure, or preincident in a book manuscript,...
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