Publishing
16 posts on publishing, newest first.
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Publishing Kindle Unlimited Page Reads: How KENP Pays How Kindle Unlimited pays authors through KENP page reads, roughly what a page is worth, how many KENP pages your novel is, and when a borrow beats a sale. -
Publishing KDP Royalties Explained: 35%, 70% and the Paperback Maths How Amazon KDP pays for ebooks and paperbacks: the 35% and 70% ebook bands, the delivery fee, the paperback royalty and printing cost, and worked examples for a typical novel. -
Publishing The Copyright Page for a Novel, Line by Line What goes on the copyright page of a self-published novel, which lines are required, which are habit, and the wording most novels use. -
Publishing How to Credit Quoted Material in a Book How to credit an epigraph, a quoted poem or lyric, and a passage from another book in your novel, where the credit goes, and why you should use the rights holder's exact wording. -
Publishing Standard Manuscript Format, and What Agents Actually Check The Shunn manuscript format specification in plain terms: font, spacing, margins, indents, scene breaks, the running header, and the word count that should be rounded. -
Publishing Can You Quote Song Lyrics in a Novel? Whether you can quote song lyrics in a novel without permission, what fair use does and doesn't cover, what's in the public domain, and how to ask a music publisher. -
Design Writing Software for Novelists Who Don't Write in English How to write and typeset a book in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, Hindi, Bengali, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Greek or Vietnamese, which typeface each script gets, and what still needs building. -
Publishing Accessible Ebooks and the European Accessibility Act What the EAA means for a self-published novel sold in the EU: accessibility metadata, what makes an EPUB accessible, the microenterprise exemption, and the large-print edition nobody makes. -
Publishing How to Write a Book Blurb, and Format It for Amazon How a novel's back-cover blurb is built, how long it should be, the mistakes that make readers scroll past, and how to format the description for an Amazon listing. -
Publishing Galley for Self-Publishing What self-publishing a novel in Galley involves: a print-ready interior PDF, a valid EPUB, a tuned file per store, and two checks that run before you upload to KDP. -
Publishing Galley for Traditional Publishing Querying agents or working with an editor: standard manuscript format, the submission package, watermarked beta drafts, and getting an editor's Word comments back where they belong. -
Publishing Translating Your Own Novel What changes when you translate your own book, from idioms and names to quote marks and typesetting, whether you should do it at all, and how to keep the translation in step with the original. -
Publishing EPUB, Print PDF, or Both? The Files You Actually Need to Self-Publish What each publishing file is for (print-interior PDF, EPUB, DOCX) and which ones Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books and Kobo want. -
Publishing How to Format a Paperback for KDP (Margins, Gutter, and Bleed) A plain walkthrough of the print-interior settings Amazon KDP checks (trim size, margins, gutter, bleed and page count) so your paperback passes on the first upload. -
Publishing Do You Need an ISBN to Self-Publish? When you need an ISBN, when you don't, the difference between KDP's free ISBN and your own, and why whose name is on the record matters more than the price. -
Publishing How to Write a Synopsis for Literary Agents What agents want from a novel synopsis, how long it should be, how to format it, and how to fit a whole book into a page without it reading like a list of events.