Happy Tuesday
My new motto is Short Is the New Long.
It's particularly apt if you're in the content business. And most of us
are, in one way or another.
Do you blog? Do you tweet? Do you pen witty emails to colleagues or
family? You're in the content business.
It's a fact that small bites of content are easier to digest. With
that in mind, here is a Happy Tuesday round-up of links about writing and
self-publishing and ebooks.
A Kickstarter
success story
Last week I
interviewed AJ
Leon, a nomadic entrepreneur who gave back a large
advance to a New York publishing company and then raised over $38,000
with a Kickstarter campaign for his new book: The Life and Times of a Remarkable Misfit.
Click here to download the audio replay of my
interview with AJ Leon
How to defeat
writer's block
This is one of my favorite topics. I can relate to it personally and it's
something the writers I work with experience as well. The April 29, 2013 issue
of The New Yorker features an article
by John McPhee
on the topic of writer's block and how hard the first draft always is.
I love his anecdote about the Dear Mother letter describing a bear. You
whine and complain to your mother about how hard it is to write. Then you
describe the bear you're supposed to be writing about. When you finish,
"you go back and delete the ‘Dear Mother’ and all the whimpering and
whining, and just keep the bear," writes McPhee.
McPhee, if you're not familiar with him, is one of the masters of
narrative nonfiction.
Read the intro to The
Writing Life: Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
The importance
of book design
You may have heard me talk about the importance of a great eBook over. An
eye-catching, professional cover - along with a killer title - is what
inspires a click to buy your eBook.
An interview with book design expert Joel Friedlander goes into
more detail including what you can expect to pay for cover and interior
book design. Joel was interviewed by publishing expert Jane Friedman,
whose blog I highly recommend.
Read Jane Friedman's Q & A with Joel Friedlander
on the essentials of great book design
As always, I'd love to hear from you. Just hit Reply and I will respond.
Yours in short books and the publishing revolution,
Debbie
Debbie Weil
Founder & CEO, Voxie
Media
Big Ideas. Short Books.™
{eBook publishing and programs for up-and-coming business authors}
email: debbie@voxiemedia.com
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