Cracking The Code – Creating well-formatted e-books

The market for e-books is huge – and growing! The Amazon Kindle and other e-book readers, such as the Sony Reader and the ever-popular iPad, mean that more than ever, publishers and authors are looking to make their work available in electronic formats.  However, you must ensure that your e-book has the same professional “look and feel” as the printed shop-front version if you aim to make your work...

Imagine me Creative Workshop at Davidson High

I was recently invited to run the ‘Imagine me Creative’ workshop at Davidson High on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The ‘Imagine me Creative’ workshop is a creative writing course designed to give students practical techniques for tapping into their creative side and ‘catching’ imaginative and inspired stories. The day started with a buzz of activity as the 60 young writers filed into the room. Facilitated...

Reading the signs – Independent Publishing gone awry

So many people communicate in writing these days that, in essence, we could all be loosely referred to as ‘Independent Publishers’. One of the most prevalent examples of our publishing finesse can be seen in the plethora of signs posted around places like the office, shop windows, café counters and the like. Many of these signs are testimony to the ‘Independent Publisher’ who is keen to get their message...

Independent Publishing in the Workplace

Whether or not you think of yourself as a writer the chances are you ‘independently publish’ on a daily basis and just don’t realise it. Most people in the workplace regularly communicate through writing whether it be email, a business proposal, a letter or even a sign on the notice board. The thing is, many of us ‘publish’ but few of us give our ‘publication’ a quality check before sending it out....

eBooks, the Independent Author and Quality

 With more and more eBooks hitting the virtual shelves of Amazon and the like it would appear that for Independent Authors their ‘Glory Days’ have arrived. No longer is the writer at the mercy of a publisher as the Independent Author can now take control of the publishing process from manuscript to point of sale (see Independent Book Publishing). What’s more with the introduction of the eBook the costs of a...