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How To Design a Front Cover For Your Book

WARNING: Painful Embarrassment for the Author ahead. I once had a marvelous idea. (I know - I was shocked too). I had an image of a book. What, thought I, could be better than using a picture of a book and using it as the front cover of my book? It could be genius. Right?… Continue reading How To Design a Front Cover For Your Book

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(Possibly) Productive Hints and Tips

Writing is a fluid thing; what may suit you one day may aggravate you the next, but this is what I've found, on the whole, to be a Useful Way to organise and write my various projects:Distraction FreeAs I compose this blog post I am using the 'Distraction Free Writing' option. I do the same… Continue reading (Possibly) Productive Hints and Tips

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How To Acquire Books Without Becoming Penniless

Every so often, I find an author I really like and I go on a bit of a splurge. Last time it was Georgette Heyer and her detective novels: I really enjoyed reading them, not for the murder mysteries - but rather for the wit and the characters (I even did two Quotable posts on… Continue reading How To Acquire Books Without Becoming Penniless