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| bio | website | shantnutiwari.com |
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| location | uk | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | 15 hours ago | |
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Full time geek, part time zombie hunter. Fighting super villains since 1936
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Jun 12 |
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Where do I fit in the future of publishing? You need to rewrite the question: What degree you have, what interests you have, what sort of job you want. That's it. as it is, I can't make head or tails of your question |
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Jun 8 |
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What republication rights do I have? You had to pay to get your book published? How is that not vanity published? If you own the copyrights, you can do anything you want |
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Jun 5 |
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Ebook publishing @Jay, it doesn't work that way, and this is a bad place to discuss :) |
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Jun 4 |
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Ebook publishing @Jay, I was talking about expanded distribution, which has never been free. Currently, Createspace charge $25 createspace.com/Products/Book/ExpandedDistribution.jsp |
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Jun 4 |
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Ebook publishing @JaveerBaker it is recommended, as many people still prefer print books. Creating a print book isn't that hard, and I suggest you do it |
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Jun 4 |
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Offer to publish - should you accept or wait? @micapam It isn't clear to me. I've asked the author to clarify |
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Jun 4 |
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Offer to publish - should you accept or wait? Janine, can you please make this clear: Are they offering you a print contract? What does "print Ebook" mean? Or should it have been "print, eBook and audio" ? :) |
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Jun 3 |
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Offer to publish - should you accept or wait? @Standback thank you, I will add it to the answer |
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May 21 |
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Do publishers really need to translate between UK and US English? Jay, lets not bring the poor French into this. They get abused enough in hollywood :) |
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May 20 |
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What factors to consider when choosing an e-book platform? Good answer. Rights is the most important thing, as far too many scams, even run by "respectable" companies. See davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/… |
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May 20 |
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Do publishers really need to translate between UK and US English? I find it jarring when villains in American movies speak with a British accent. :) |
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Apr 15 |
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Can a self publishing author use a Pen name/Pseudonym? @Vass, IANAL, but anything you write is automatically copyrighted. New authors spend so much time worrying about people stealing their work, when the real problem is death by obscurity. |
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Apr 11 |
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Ways to speed up my writing to 15 - 20 pages a day One book every 5-7 years? Seriously? Dean has written about this myth: deanwesleysmith.com/?p=4360 |
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Apr 3 |
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For Kindle, are hard paragraph breaks that serious? It only matters if you enter KDP select. And what do you mean you can't get rid of them? Is Word not removing them? |
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Mar 24 |
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Getting details of a past century right Good answer. Research is only useful if it's helping you write your book. Writing is hard, and it's easy to get side tracked doing things that no help the book. |
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Mar 20 |
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Is it worth switching to Dvorak? Related: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2975/… . Also related: productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/363/… |
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Mar 19 |
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How to tell or retell basic character and setting information in a series? The cinematic narrator is a good technique, though underused. Rather than invent contrived dialogue to get the backs tory in, I prefer it when the author just tells me, in a sentence or two, what happened X years ago, and why it is affecting today. For an example, the Skullduggery series does this well. |
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Mar 6 |
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How can I convey dates (with ordering) for events happening under different dating systems, e.g. a Sci-Fi story spread over the galaxy? @Jay, that was an example. |
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Mar 3 |
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How can I convey dates (with ordering) for events happening under different dating systems, e.g. a Sci-Fi story spread over the galaxy? @MonicaCellio , your edits are perfect. I typed the post before lunch, so my thoughts may have been less than coherent :) |
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Mar 3 |
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What constitutes historical fantasy? @LaurenIpsum , are you giving me ideas? Cause I'll do it.... :) |
