Self-Publishing Workshop 1: Putting Style into your Manuscript
Summary:
Chris Bell will demonstrate how to define and use paragraph and character styles within your manuscript and see how those are used in making a professional layout in both print and electronic books.
Self-Publishing Workshop 2: Introduction to Print Typesetting
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Chris Bell will cover the basics of a page layout and what it takes to move your manuscript from a word processing file to a print-ready book interior.
Self-Publishing Workshop 3: Introduction to E-Book Creation
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Chris Bell will take you through the process of creating an e-book using free tools that are available. Also learn about setting up distribution of your e-book to online retailers.
Authors such as Charles Dickens and Stephen King have written serial fiction. Jen Gunnels, John Helfers, and Melissa Olson ask if this format due for a resurgence.
How can you be sure the tone of your work is consistent? And should it always be so? Devon Monk, Diana Pho, and Erik Scott de Bie discuss tools you can use to set your tone.
Sexy Times in Speculative Fiction: The Ins and Outs of Love Scenes
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Show everything or fade to black? That question--and more!--will be answered by our astute sexy-times authors Melissa Olson, Diana Rowland, Jerry Gordon, Susan Morris, and A. E. Greenwood.
Beaches and sea cliffs hide surprises, as do other, more unusual coastal settings. discuss narrative opportunities with landscape geologist Scott Rice-Snow.
We've all heard the old, "show don't tell" advice. Devon Monk, Melissa Olson, Cherie Priest, and Susan Morris tells us what it means and when it's the right course of action.