Sigil Tutorial: Adding and Inserting Images into your Ebook

Easily add images to your epub using Sigil’s built-in Add Image feature

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Sigil Tutorial: Splitting Pages using Sigil’s SGF Chapter Break Feature

VIDEO: Tired of manually splitting long chapters? — let Sigil split them automatically.

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Kindle Fire Giveaway, free ebooks, and $500

Kindle Fire and Free ebook Giveaway

Epic Giveaway: 10 Free Kindle Fires, 75 free ebooks, $300 in gift cards, a $500 library donation! by J.A. Konrath, Scott Nicholson, J. Carson Black, Lee Goldberg, and Blake Crouch beginning February 1, 2012.

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Is a PDF document good enough for E-Readers?

If you think that offering a PDF file to your fans is enough, think again. PDFs of old are not the e-book of today.. not by a long shot. You need to convert your PDF to mobi and epub to satisfy today’s readers.

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Biggest complaints readers have about e-books

How many authors can build a website? If you are self-publishing, then you already are. HTML is the foundation language for epub and mobi AND Internet web pages. If one has a basic knowledge of HTML and stylesheets it is easy to create a well formatted ebook.

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James Lalonde, Author of Holotar: Last Queen of the White Shamans

Audio Podcast urban fantasy, psychological thriller author, James Lalonde

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Time Management Tips for the Marketing Author

Author marketing requires good Time Management skills. A few tips to help an author budget your time for author marketing success.

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Don’t let Good Ideas Slip Away

Guest Blogger: Spencer Brokaw published his first book The Impenetrable Spy in 2011 at age 12. He enjoys writing and plans on creating a series. He resides in Ohio and enjoys swimming, golfing, playing the drums, and reading. Every once and a while, you get that idea that makes you stop and say, “WOW!” And [...]

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KF8 an Improvement but still has Issues

The KF8 update has many of us testing, comparing and uncertain of the promise KF8 was to deliver. So while KF8 is a tremendous improvement, the jury is still out as to how much time will be saved when coding e-books for mobi and epub.

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Be A Famous Writer Childrens Writing Contest Winners announced

MrsP.com announced today the names of the two Grand Prize winners in its third annual “Be a Famous Writer” contest, a nationwide creative-writing competition for children held every September.

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Ebook Formatting Kit 3.0

Ebook Formatting Kit includes a step-by-step guide, step-by-step videos, pre-made ebook templates, pre-made CSS PLUS LIfetime updates. Plus, code and templates for advanced formatting such as non-fiction endnotes and poetry.

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Marketing Like the Pros!

Marketing is not advertising or publicity. Marketing is simply creating awareness about you and your book – and it should start the day you start writing your book.

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How to Format Poetry: Advanced Ebook Formatting

Poetry is a difficult form to layout consistently across the board. Every e-reader seems to like and dislike different aspects of HTML coding. After a lot of testing I found a process that displays well for the Kindle, Kindle Previewer, Kindle Reader app (Mac) Adobe Digital Editions (Mac) and Sony Reader App (Mac).

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Kindle Singles

pamphlets

Kindle Singles are short stories, articles, posts or opinions that do not fall into the conventional space for magazine or print – typically 5,000 to 30,000 words.

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Writing Errors: Check the Facts, Man!

Writing errors occur for many reasons. It may be that you are in a hurry or ‘assume’ a fact. Your writing is a reflection of you so put your best foot forward.

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