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Scrivener Software Is Complicated but Worth the Effort for Writing eBooks

  By Maryan Pelland | March 1, 2012 - 7:33 pm | write your book, writing advice
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Two weeks ago friend and fellow ghostwriter, Grant McDuling, suggested I look into an extremely robust wordprocessor for fiction and non-fiction writers. Always up for a book writing related adventure I jumped in and found Scrivener authoring software immensely worth my time. There is a learning curve involved with Scrivener, but an hour or two will have you writing and formatting all kinds of manuscripts …(there’s more) Continue reading →

Easy steps to publish your ebook for Kindle readers

  By Maryan Pelland | February 21, 2012 - 11:26 am | write your book, writing advice
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Don’t panic. You wrote your ebook, had the ebook professionally edited, polished the ebook to a gloss and you feel ready to publish that ebook to Kindle’s self publishing site for Kindle readers and Amazon customers. Don’t panic. There’s a learning curve to self-publishing electronically via Amazon’s Kindle, but Kindle has the largest market share of ebook sales. If you can only publish one format …(there’s more) Continue reading →

How to Learn from the Best Writing Advice Ever

  By Maryan Pelland | February 19, 2012 - 3:30 pm | writing advice
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  I’d like to share one of the most valuable pieces of writing advice I ever got. It helped me sell more writing and get more readers. Then, I’d like you to tell me, in the comments, what advice really moved your writing, authoring, or freelance career along. Into My Writing Wayback Machine In college, I had a fantastic writing professor, Jack Dodd. After reading …(there’s more) Continue reading →

1001 Brilliant Ideas for Writers to Steal — New ebook cures writers’ block!

  By Maryan Pelland | February 17, 2012 - 9:28 am | write your book
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What writer hasn’t struggled with writers’ block, sometimes every time she sits  down to write? Deadlines loom. Editors gnash their teeth. Words don’t come. Oh! The pain of it! But no more, writers. You can power-up your writing career and meet those deadlines, publish those ebooks, learn how to make money as a writer even when your brain is in low gear. You must put …(there’s more) Continue reading →

Why you need to know all your author publishing options

  By Maryan Pelland | February 14, 2012 - 10:10 am | Uncategorized
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Memoirs still sell. Publishers still buy them. Just take a look at Publisher’s Lunch online and see how often publishing deals are made for memoir manuscripts. And competition is fierce. First, all the celebrities’ memoirs have to get published. Then the sports people. Then the people with a sensational angle that splashes across headlines. Then the people who make up their entire memoirs and haven’t …(there’s more) Continue reading →