self publishing 2018

Hi all! I'm happy to report that my health is much improved. Thank goodness! Ain't nobody got time for being ill. So ... where is everybody? I know I extended the deadlines out to the end of October for people on the accomplishment track and the end of November for those working towards the distinction certificate... let's see some finished projects! :) Could the distinction people email me theirs separately? Either a .mobi or an .epub is fine. zemach@comcast.net is probably best. For the others, why not post here, and we can all give some congratulations and feedback? (Distinction people welcome to post theirs here as well, of course!)

Just wanted to let you guys know that the book you watched me publish is now live everywhere. I did go back into the Amazon listing and choose better categories, and added some more key words (netiquette! How could I have forgotten netiquette?). I got the paperback cover from my designer and did that as well, and then did the ebook listings with Draft2Digital, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. Then added everything to my website. https://wayzgoosepress.com/authors/dorothy-zemach/ If anyone would like a review copy, I"d be happy to send one! Just ask. Reviews on Amazon especially welcome. :) And it doesn't even matter if your review is positive, negative, or neutral, as long as it explains why. It's just more information to help the book get into the hands of the right readers (and help the wrong readers avoid it, if it's not what they're looking for). Hope to see some of your books up there soon as well! This one I thought would be really fast, but i...

The person who designs my books and also my websites is going to be on some podcast thing, and is raffling off either a book design package or a website design. I think it would be, what, two hours before our class starts? This Saturday. So if you're interested... https://bookbranders.com/spilling-ink-contest/ https://bookbranders.com/spilling-ink-contest/

OK, I deleted the old file because I'd made so many changes, and nobody had commented on it anyway. So here's the new one! https://drive.google.com/file/d/135jIwZDQb5wnKljqO-2H8FGGbEN9olvn/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/135jIwZDQb5wnKljqO-2H8FGGbEN9olvn/view?usp=sharing

As promised, here is a larger screenshot that shows a standard copyright text. Put your name and the year, and then feel free to copy this one exactly. Some more examples can be found on this excellent site: https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/01/copyright-page-samples-you-can-copy-and-paste-into-your-book/

As you continue to work on your covers, take a break to check out these stock photos and wonder what kind of books they'd go with... https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/unexplainable-stock-photos https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/unexplainable-stock-photos

Extra resources for working with "styles" in Word. Remember that if one video seems confusing to you, just try another. It's a matter of finding the person who explains it the way you want to learn! Also, styles can work differently in different versions of Word, so if you're using an older (or newer) version, you might need for search for what you need. 1. For PCs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2lES-5Ynbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfZdwiR1iOA 2. For Macs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i3AncFaqTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9KyXTUHFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2lES-5Ynbk

Hello everybody! Let's make some books! This is the place to write a short intro to who you are, where/who you teach, and what sort of materials you're going to be working on during this course. I've got two (or three?) books I'm going to be working on as well, so I'll go first. I don't actually teach full-time anymore, though I do periodic teacher training and sometimes short courses. I mostly write and edit ELT materials, both for traditional publishers and for my own little publishing company--so I both publish other people and stuff that I've written. The projects I hope to finish during our month together are an ELT book on using Facebook for networking, and then--if time, if time--a grammar book for self-published fiction writers. That book has gotten bogged down though because I realized it really wants to be two books, one on grammar and one on vocabulary, and that sounds like a lot more work. But as they say, the answer to "How do you eat an el...