When publishing a book at Amazon, trying to get the description formatting right can be a frustrating experience. This article is intended to help you manage the process.
Ux and Writing
Ux and writing go hand-in-glove.If you want a lot of bang for the buck, get your writers involved in the project earlier. You may or may not need an expensive UI designer or an accessibility engineer. But you need your writers involved from the prototype stages onward.
Writing vs. Marketing
Writers want to write. But writing is about communicating. So it’s not a matter of “writing vs. marketing” it’s a matter of writing and marketing.
Working with Bowker ISBNs
You should know going in that if Bowker didn’t have a monopoly, there is no way it would stay in business. The interface is that bad. But if you’re intrepid, you can get the ISBN and barcodes you need for your book, and be the “publisher of record”.
Publishing A Book – Editing and Proofreading Stages
Understanding the steps in the editing and publication process can improve your book, and may save you a bit of money!
How I Became a Writer, and Lessons Learned
I transitioned from software development to technical writing because, after an hour of coding, I was super fatigued. So I was looking for an easier way to make a living — and, like all programmers, I thought that writing was “easy”.
Online Review of a PDF in Dropbox
It Be Da Bomb!”
The best way I have found to get detailed review comments on a PDF is to post it on Dropbox.com, and have reviewers add comments online, in their browser. Thanks to Adobe’s partnership with Dropbox, that review process works exceedingly well.
Sending Drafts Out for Review
There are two kinds of review processes, the “Critical Comment” review and “Overall Evaluation” review. This essay gives you options you can use for each kind of review.
Ten Rules of Writing
Words of wisdom for writers.