Deborah Jay's Blog

In the last post we covered all the steps to get your ebook ready for that final step – publishing. Pricing Now it’s time to set your price, and decide which outlets you want to publish to. Assuming you already took this step when publishing to Amazon (I highly recommend doing this first, before D2D), […]

Another quick break from my self publishing series to bring you an update on my WIP. FRAGILE is finished, and editing is coming along apace, so I thought it was about time to share a few snippets to whet your appetites. I’m planning on a pre-Christmas publishing date, if all goes to plan. I shared […]

Step 2: Layout Once you have completed the steps in the last tutorial, which included uploading your manuscript, the next page offers these options that help to give your book a polished, professional look. The below example shows how it looks for one of my existing books. As you can see on the left, there […]

You will already have much of the information you need to take this step, assuming you have uploaded your book to Amazon first (recommended). It’s simple and free to create an account with D2D, and once you have that done, you can begin the upload process. First, click on the big orange ‘MY BOOKS’ button […]

I’ve reviewed several of this series, and received this one as an ARC, which in no way affected my opinion or review. I do enjoy the period, and the concept of strong women of this era starting to push the boundaries of how they are expected to conform. Here are a few I’ve already posted […]

Previous posts in this series have focussed on publishing with Amazon, which is the largest single market available to self-publishers. Draft2Digital is an aggregator – a place where you can upload your books in order to publish to lots of marketplaces without having to learn the ins and outs of each individual platform – a […]

While I didn’t have time for writing during my hectic work trip, I did manage to read quite a bit in hotels, at airports, on planes etc., and I’m just now getting around to writing up my reviews for the best books. It sometimes looks like I always award 5, or occassionally, 4 stars to […]

I had planned on another book review this week, but the last few days have been rather taken up with pre-empting property damage, and managing everyday chores, during our first major storm of the year: Cyclone Amy – the product of Hurricane Humberto and Hurricane Imelda churning close to each other, causing a rapid pressure […]

All those many writers who joined NaNoWriMo and found it a fantastic tool to really focus on their writing for the month of November, with the goal of producing 50K words to ‘win’, were devastated when, after 20 years, the announcement came this last spring that it had closed down for good. Well, now there […]

It’s been a long time since I felt like committing to a big read, and a science fiction book at that. But Frank Herbert’s DUNE was the book that hooked me on SFF. The scope of storytelling these genres offer, the original concepts they embrace, and yet they way they are used to explore the […]