Design & presentation
This is a huge topic and I’m barely scratching a surface with these article and videos, but below you’ll find guides to using media on Substack, creating paperbacks and designing covers.
A quick and easy way to format your ebook and paperback files
Sometimes you want a tool that is simple, fast and does the job without unnecessary frills. That’s what I needed this week, to prep an ebook for use in upcoming BookFunnel promotions.
How to add images, videos and audio to your newsletter
I know, I know. This does not sound like the most exciting video I’ve ever made.
Transforming a serial story into a book
I’m generally a one project-at-a-time person. It’s the only way I can make progress on anything. Hence, this newsletter and my ongoing fiction serial.
Content warnings & age ratings
There’s been a lot of interesting chatter on Fiction Substack in the last week. Elle Griffin posed an interesting question:
Preparing a book for publication
I wrote this post over the weekend and it was essentially an announcement that my book No Adults Allowed is available for pre-order. That didn’t quite feel right, though: it was a bit too much of a marketing piece, without any real benefit to all of you who read this newsletter.
Relinquishing control to a publisher
Two of my older books have been taken into Wattpad’s ‘paid stories’ programme. This marks the first time that a publisher has taken on the publishing and promotion of my work and it’s been an intriguing experience thus far.
Anatomy of a cover
I’m not a designer, but in some ways I thought that might make this more useful to other indie authors - especially if you’re just starting out and don’t have massive budgets to splash on covers.