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About Blog Welcome to the website of Nicolas Antoniucci, writer and author of several books published in paper and digital formats (eBooks).

At Caligraphics we do web development, business cards, ads, logos and anything else that comes along, but for the last seven years we've been specializing in ebook covers, and we've done nearly 800 covers for Smashwords and Amazon writers.

Whether you publish your book in hard back, paperback, or in one of the many eBook formats currently available, unless you take more care, it won't be long before you become ignored as a writer, or worse, totally forgotten.

Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.

It's changing so quickly that I'm actually very happy Matilda and I will be producing Publishing Options for Memoir Writers in the 21st Century as an ebook.

New writers, particularly self - published writers, are often encouraged to stick to ebooks only in these discourses.

As someone who — in the last eighteen months — has published with a big six house, a small private press, and self - pubbed an ebook, I can tell you there's no easy route for the writer.

As a writer who is finishing Volume II, This Changes My Family and my Life Forever, and marketing (release date, December 20) Volume I, This Changes Everything of The Spanners Series, I am also writing, marketing, learning about ebook publishing, indie pub networking and methods, editing / revising, weighing in on cover art for Volume I (thanks, #Willowraven!)

You can review our recap of the «live uproar» we all enjoyed on that one in #EtherIssue: Counting Ebooks in a Writer Wonderland.

While I am not a writer or publisher, nor a financial or economic analyst, I think I can conclude in reasonable safety that indie ebook profitability is not sinking below the waves.

As you say there is no real money in eBooks, so in the end writers may only continue to write for the joy of it and not to get an income stream.

It's a good day to stay inside and work on our ebook on Publishing Options for Memoir Writers in the 21st Century.

«Back in the days before the Kindle and ebook publishing, here's how one usually got a book published: You had an idea for a book, you sat down and wrote it, and you went to the library and check out The Writer's Marketplace, or another book about agents and publishing.

Authors, writers, publishers of eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major eBook retailers - we convert eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on eBooks

First: The big day has arrived!The ebook version of HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE... And Keep Your E-Sanity which I wrote with my mentor Catherine Ryan Hyde is now available on Amazon from MWiDP.

I, like Joe, have a large backlist of titles, have had agents, several, and have published with maybe eight of the publishers in NYC and guess what - there are legitimate writers publishing ebooks every two hours right now and soon I hope to have every book I ever wrote — around fifty on ebooks.

Robert: Well, you and Joe are in a different league than most of the other writers thinking about self - publishing ebooks.

For newbies you are right as every new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the ebooks are the way to go, period.

Specific, in - depth nuts - and - bolts guides include The Unofficial Scrivener Workbook by M.J. Carlson, Excel for Writers by M. L. Humphrey (walks through how to create spreadsheets that track time spent writing, page production, year - to - year metrics, and keep track of your works), Excel for Self - Publishers by M. L. Humphrey (amazingly useful for indie authors, how to track ads and effectiveness, revenue by sales channel, keywords, amazon reports, and more), and The Author's Guide to Vellum by Chuck Heintzelman (an incredible new app for producing print and eBooks; I'm a total convert myself).

Finally, part of publishing includes working with other writers in (ahem) ebook bundles, and the owner of the BundleRabbit bundling website Chuck Heinzelman shares his knowledge in The Author's Guide To Ebook Bundebook bundles, and the owner of the BundleRabbit bundling website Chuck Heinzelman shares his knowledge in The Author's Guide To Ebook BundEbook Bundling.

Perhaps as more and more novels find a home on eBook, and writers begin to incorporate more media into what they write, eBooks will come with playlists that inform the story, or even let the reader in on what writers were listening to as they wrote.

I assume that's what the original fonts option would be for (I'm too lazy to download, import, convert, and sideload everything anymore so I haven't used Calibre in a long time — mostly I just read library ebooks lately because it's my opinion that 90 % of writers suck at writing so I have no interest in paying for most books).

I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established authors from publishing houses still sell their ebooks at over 5 times that price in most cases.

Flattering, but in order to attract writers and convince them to sign a contract the offer has to change toward higher royalties, different deals for ebook, paperback, and audiobook publishing rights, and marketing plan that goes well beyond the initial splash.

Writers can set the prices of their ebooks higher than $ 9.99, but who's going to buy those, and then their royalties are cut in half.

Many writers want to get in on the eBook revolution, but they don't know how to convert a Word file to an eBook, or how to format a file so that Amazon and Smashwords won't horribly mangle it during their conversion processes.

I doubt eBooks will ever measure up to their paper counterparts in my book (sorry), but anything that closes the gap is a step forward for writers and readers.

In the old days of traditional publishing this really didn't matter too much but since the arrival of ebooks and self - publishing that has all changed; even a writer with a traditional publishing deal is expected to carry his / her weight of the marketing effort.

My new eBook, The Pro Writer Mindset, is written and finished and it's freaking awesome and when I launch the book on June 14 it hits # 1 in its category on Amazon.

While self publishing, especially ebooks, offers writers an incredible opportunity to get their books under reader's noses, one of the most common mistakes made by those new (and sometimes not so new) to self publishing, is to get caught up in the euphoria of publishing a book, and rushing to hit the publish button.

Mystery writer Elizabeth Gunn's Cool in Tucson has been out of print for a few years, and we are in the galley proof stage of reissuing this first Sarah Burke mystery in both print and ebook formats.

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And that's a good thing, but that does NOT mean that because a few dozen or a few hundred or a few thousand writers do this that traditional publishing won't still dominate that $ 39.9 million sales of ebooks in September.

This past February, I had a similar impromptu supper in Manhattan with three highly valued British colleagues who had flown from London for TOC: the digital author and Bath Spa University professor, Kate Pullinger; the publishing consultant and writer Sheila Bounford; and the Contentment founder and apps / ebook tools creator Michael Kowalski.

I look upon my time as a bestselling independent writer, whose work is published exclusively as eBooks, as serving my apprenticeship in literature while at the same time being paid as a professional through the act of receiving regular monthly royalty payments.

In the post — which got a surprisingly low number of critics in the comments section — the writer points to the need for authors to only advertise two retailers for their ebooks and one retailer — Amazon — for their print editionIn the post — which got a surprisingly low number of critics in the comments section — the writer points to the need for authors to only advertise two retailers for their ebooks and one retailer — Amazon — for their print editionin the comments section — the writer points to the need for authors to only advertise two retailers for their ebooks and one retailer — Amazon — for their print editions.

The company is offering these tools in exchange for $ 29 for ebooks under 500 pages which appeals to the average writer.

For some non-fiction writers, where your book's content is more likely to be read non-sequentially, it means if the reader starts their reading deeper in the book at Chapter 10, a sale could be triggered after reading only 20 % of the book (As an aside, this underscores the importance of authors building fully functional navigation into their ebooks so that all their book's content is easily discoverable.

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I bring this up because in reading one of the Hachette versus Amazon articles the writer pointed out how much gaming is already being done by the Big Publishers, such as buying ebooks themselves to increase the subsequent print order from Amazon.

It is supported by its own library touted as the «YouTube» of eBooks where both amateur and professional writers can share content by uploading their published and unpublished works for readers to download, and there are tons of fiction short stories, fantasies, science fiction, romance, etc., that you won't find in Kindle or Nook sites.

It's quite true that the publishing industry is in a state of flux and it appears that the balance is shifting from the traditional agent - publisher requirement to the new writer - POD - ebook approach.

The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with Warwick University, is awarded for a full - length published or self - published (in book or ebook formats) work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, by an author aged 18 — 35 years.

I'm Julia Laflin, writer and author of The House At Roc Noir, an atmospheric novella set in the lonely wilds of Corsica, which has recently been selling very nicely as a self - published ebook.

Posted by Michael Capobianco for Writer Beware If you follow publishing news, you're probably aware of the recent controversy over Clean Reader, a reading app that scrubs ebooks clean of curse words and profanity.Now, in a step toward the future of int... -LSB-...]

A lot of this info is going to be available in a book — both ebook and print — in our book HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE... AND KEEP YOUR E-SANITin a book — both ebook and print — in our book HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE... AND KEEP YOUR E-SANITin our book HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE... AND KEEP YOUR E-SANITIN THE E-AGE... AND KEEP YOUR E-SANITY!

Mark Coker founded Smashwords in 2008 to make it fast, free and easy for any writer, anywhere in the world, to self - publish an ebook.

Many ebook companies that allow authors to market their manuscripts directly make it difficult to weed out «writers» who are looking for a bit of extra cash or who don't keep their readers in mind.

Sites like indie Kindle and Kindle Nation will be increasingly important to readers as well as writers, in order to choose the best of the new ebook offerings.

The retailing behemoth is looking to win over writers whose works are published by Hachette in an attempt to break stalemated negotiations over ebook pricing.