No AI, thank you – Publishing Sidetrack Key – Epilogue
So I just added this to our copyright notice on the epub version:No AI tools were used to assist in writing this work.The use of…
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The great epub adventure. Publishing Sidetrack Key
Part 1 covered the title and Part 2 covered the print version of Sidetrack Key. I’ve saved the best for last, creating the epub/Kindle version….
Sidetrack Key – Part 2 -How to Publish the Print Version
Jessica produced a very nice book in Microsoft Word. If you’re going straight to epub, you can just upload it at Amazon KDP and they’ll…
Title & Cover-Part One-Publishing Sidetrack Key
This isn’t Jessica. This is Sean MacGuire, husband and publisher of Sidetrack Key. I get to do the interesting work of getting the book out…
Sidetrack Key – Book 2 in the No Name Key series
After eight years, I finally finished the sequel to No Name Key and I hope it was worth the wait! Here’s my description: A twisty,…
How Imagination Became Appropriation
I have a fraught relationship with publication. Although I love writing and being read, I’ve never conquered the childish sense that I’m asking for ‘more…
Scrivener for the Fearful
Last year I had multiple Word files for each section, scene and chapter of No Name Key 2. Some with unique names but similar content,…
How Authors Discover New Readers
Because it is rarely the other way around. The onus is increasingly upon us as authors to do some fancy foot work to entice the…
Editors, My Secret Weapon
If you have the humility to accept criticism you may be willing to actually hire someone who has a clue. Indie authors have been accused…
Compelling Book Covers
Like everything else about producing a novel, information is abundant, confusing and often contradictory. There are no end of experts, all with strong opinions, all…