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Operating as usual
LOL! How many times DO you have to kill a vampire to kill him dead?
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/grammar-goof-of-the-day/
Ya gotta love the j-school grads that staff TV station websites these days. “J-school”: does that stand for “janitorial school”? This week we have a report of this Herculean accomplishment: Phoenix police: Man fatally stabbed 80 times, suspect jailed Think of that! Killed the guy 80 times ov...
Publishing Fire-Rider as a FREE READ over at Plain & Simple Press...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/fire-rider-part-iii-the-journey-begins-free-read/
The sun had started to trace its arc westward to the horizon when the allies reached the outlying settlement Bilhem had reported....
How computer technology interferes with the creative process.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/patience-gimme-patience/
Computer programming to post content and marketing material to the Web is not at all how I want to spend the creative time I have left in my life. It sucks so much energy that the writing you want to do doesn't get done.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/presenting-another-free-read-fire-rider/
Starting tomorrow! Serial stories from Fire-Rider go online at Plain & Simple Press.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ay-mazing-when-you-give-maybe-you-do-get/
Does giving away self-published content lead to book sales?
Does giving away content lead to improved book sales?
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ay-mazing-when-you-give-maybe-you-do-get/
I have a friend, Ken Johnson, who is in the business of formatting manuscripts for e-book publication — a service that is eminently useful when you have a complicated book with a lot of illustrations or many levels of heads and subheads. Ken used to say, in the marketing department, that you shoul...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/3153-2/
The people at Romance Writers of America claim you start to make a noticeable income after you’ve posted about eight titles—of any genre, fiction or nonfiction. So they claim.
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Oh, my...it's been a hectic few weeks. A couple of book chapteroids have autoposted at Plain & Simple Press, but what with all the real-life craziness, I've had neither time nor energy to fiddle with posting them on Facebook. One of the dogs died. In the process of dealing with that I darn near crippled myself, to say nothing of bankrupting myself. It's tax time: the accountant has all sorts of strange ideas to the effect that I'm going to present her with intelligible data (hah!). For reasons unknown, the business has been struggling and now just as things pick up, PayPal freaking explodes...have to spend a good two days wrestling with that hassle. Trying to set up Stripe but don't have the heart to engage more techno-hassle right this minute. Medicating a rather scary infection: that seems to have been beaten now. Had to have another pre-cancer removed from the weather-worn hide. The irrigation system sprang a leak. The plumbing line to the sewer blocked up and the whole house had to be (expensively) roto-rooted. Write? me? gimme a break! :-D
How to prepare your manuscript for publication as an ebook:
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/how-to-prepare-your-ms-for-publishing-e-books/
If you know HTML and CSS—and know them well—format your document in ePub and be done with it. For the rest of us, there’s hope: it’s not difficult to format a Word document for Kindle...
The new guy gets down to work...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ellas-story-chapter-35/
Sigi, the personification of common sense, bent over the big table in the downstairs kitchen and eating hall, where she had spread out her draft plans for the proposed new clinic.
We are called upon by Facebook to post something here. And so, hot off the presses: the adventures of the day...
http://funny-about-money.com/monks-bums-and-pee-pads-why-i-love-the-walmart/
New Year's Day in Beautiful Uptown Phoenix...
How to Prepare Your MS for Publishing: Parts of a Book - Plain & Simple Press
Every book that follows the Chicago Manual of Style—the standard of the book publishing industry—contains certain set parts. Let’s take a brief look at each of these.
First of several chapters on preparing & formatting your book for print-on-demand or e-book publication...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/how-to-prepare-your-manuscript-for-publishing-the-parts-of-a-book/
Every book that follows the Chicago Manual of Style—the standard of the book publishing industry—contains certain set parts. Let’s take a brief look at each of these.
At last! Chapter 33 of Ella's Story is up: http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ellas-story-chapter-33/
Hoorah! The plot thickens...
And also created a table of contents with links to the posted chapters, over at the page dedicated to the Ella's Story bookoid: http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ellas-story-free-read/
Ella’s Story, Chapter 33 Ella’s Story follows people who live ordinary lives as citizens of a vast interstellar empire. Indeed, a galactic empire. Each chapter will be posted individually here at the Plain & Simple Press blog about one every three weeks, and then collected at a single page devot...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/two-steps-backward/
Doing it all over again is getting to be the story of my life. The exceptionally tedious story of my life. One catastrophe after another has been holding forth in these parts, leaving me too tired to write anything on Ella's Story, when I'm not too distracted.
Your chances of striking it rich self-publishing are about as good as getting rich mining gold on the banks of the Amazon. So...why self-publish? Well, there are a few very good reasons. Some will help you turn a dollar or two; others let you create a product with special significance for specific, targeted audiences. Let’s consider the possibilities.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/when-self-publishing-works/
Over at P&S Press...finally getting back in the swing of things. Today: the book chapteroid of the week...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/whats-your-favorite-dog-breed/
My opinion? The breed no longer exists. What's YOUR favorite breed of dog?
Gotta love those low-paid copywriters...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/less-is-not-more-or-fewer/
...Nor does "less" mean the same as "fewer."
Look before you leap: the hurdles of self-publishing...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/self-publishing-really-the-complete-writer-free-reads/
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/betises-of-the-day/
What, really, would it take to hire an editor? News copy gets more and more hilariously bad!
Reading the local news is a circus...though the proprietors probably didn't mean it that way.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/rights-and-contracts/
What are your rights before and after you publish a work? Is your blog copyrighted? What is “copyright,” anyway? What are your publisher’s rights, and what do the terms of a publishing contract imply?
Hectic week or 10 days: have been too busy to keep up with the posts at Plain & Simple Press. But this morning, here are two that should have gone online last week. Better late than never...i guess.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/has-your-pet-saved/
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/writing-sex-scenes-the-complete-writer-free-reads/
The never-ending Monty Python Show that is life on the Internet...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/running-in-place/
Watch this space! Many enforced, unwelcom techno-changes coming up next week. This site may go dark for a few days, or switch to a different platform. Life as a Monty Python Show...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/point-of-view-the-complete-writer-free-reads/
How point of view works in fiction & nonfiction
A discussion of point of view, in fiction and nonfiction -- examples included.
Managed to get this week's installment of Ella's Story done...and the sun is only halfway past the yardarm!
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ellas-story-chapter-28/
...deciding to do it was different from knowing she would do it.
Where do YOUR characters come from? A brief rumination on writing fiction...
Please SHARE with your friends.
Really, I DO hate fiddling with Facebook. What a PITA! Trying again, take 3:
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/why-is-it-illegal-to-not-wear-a-seatbelt-if-youd-asked-me-free-read/
I give up trying to force it to use the image I want instead of the image FB wants. WTF? Just go to the page. Please. :-D
A few reflections on plotting a novel...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/the-complete-writer-a-few-notes-on-plot/
Learning to write fiction...
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/the-complete-writer-learning-to-write-fiction/
The Complete Writer Part V. Writing Fiction Chapter 23. Getting Started This book is not the place to go into a lot of detail about how one writes a piece of fiction—a short story or a novel. Many resources can help get you started. One of the best is John Gardner’s classic, The Art of …
Making progress on a new scholarly book. Meanwhile...the idle squb of the day:
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/child-guest-at-dinner/
Was I wrong to not give a five-year-old guest child the food that she wanted? I had snacks (veggies, cuties, cheese, pretzels) and she refused it. She also refused the pizza because it had veggies. She later told her mom that she hadn’t eaten.
Totally fed up with Facebook.
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/ellas-story-chapter-16-free-reads/
“Sister,” she said, “your oath doesn’t go away just because you do.”
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/if-youd-asked-me-my-boyfriend-killed-my-dog-free-reads-1/
If this man has not harmed you yet, eventually he will. People who abuse animals will also abuse people.
Just posted a new chapter for The Complete Writer, over at the Plain & Simple Press site. This one describes the several classic structures of the feature article...d
http://www.plainandsimplepress.com/the-complete-writer-writing-the-feature-article-free-read/
The Complete Writer Part III Writing Nonfiction: Magazines, Newspapers, Books, Blogs Chapter 13. The Structure of Feature Articles This book is a work in progress. A new chapter appears at our here each week, usually on Fridays. To see all the chapters published so far, visit the *FREE READ* page fo...
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