One of the challenges of self-publishing is formatting your final files so they create an easy-to-read, nicely formatted final product. While you can always just upload your Word files and have the target site (Amazon or B&N or Smashwords) convert it for you, this approach doesn’t always provide the best results. There are plenty of…
Tag: Indie
A Year In The Life Of IPAL
In October, 2015, I attended my first IPAL meeting at the Gold Conference. I didn’t know what to expect, and I was delighted to find that there were a healthy number of my fellow writers, all of whom had amazing ideas on how to further IPAL to work for us both as a group within…
Current Climate in Publishing: The Sky Didn’t Fall, So Now What?
After the recent Colorado Gold Conference, I found myself wondering about indie/self-publishing and traditional publishing. When I joined my first Gold Conference back in 2008, I/S publishing was the DEVIL. No, really, like the actual end of the world four to five horsemen. (I first typed horsemint, which is, according to word, any various coarse…
The Ultimate Victory – Writing The Too Perfect Book
By Aaron Ritchey So I was sick of it all. Sick of the rejection. Sick of editors. Sick of my stupid Amazon ranking. Sick of the current project, which was completely unmarketable. Like any publisher is going to want a young adult sci-fi/western, steampunk, biopunk, family drama, dystopian epic. Epic I tell you! Sick of…
GOING ROGUE – THE INDIE REVOLUTION OF AARON MICHAEL RITCHEY
By Aaron Ritchey I have become like Kurtz in the Congo. I have gone native. I am living in a hut, out in the jungle, and I’m writing books that don’t have the approval of the British elite in London. The horror! The horror! But do you know what? It’s awesome and scary and nerve-wracking…