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Hello, readers. I have many plans for the new year. Among them is redesigning my website. I plan to spend this month doing that between working on my Ridgewood Chronicles books.

I’m considering making a new cover for my book Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles at Amazon in March. By the way, the book features many of my short stories—some of them never published before.

I’m still rewriting the second book in the series and truly hope to have it in ebook and paperback at Amazon before the year ends.

Self-publishing my books in paperback is a new experience, which means I’ve been studying YouTube videos and learning all I can to get better at it. Eventually, I plan to publish paperbacks at Smashwords, too, but that may be a venture for 2025.

If anyone has advice or tips about publishing paperback books, feel free to comment below. I think comments are open for a few months before the option closes, so if that happens, go ahead and comment on any open posts you find.

Thanks for joining me today.

Peace to all my readers.

Steve, 1/5/2024

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11 thoughts on “New”

    1. Hi, Susan. I have many TBR ebooks on my Kindle and a few paperbacks and hardcovers on my bookshelves, so I can relate. Writing stories, editing them, and then publishing them is time consuming and gets in the way of reading. I need a few months on a deserted tropical island to begin catching up on all those unread books.

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  2. Best of luck and congratulations, Steve! I’ve been meaning to upgrade my website’s design to something much cooler one day 🙂

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    1. I tend to put off my site’s design for years. One day, several years ago, WordPress sent me a notice that my site’s design was obsolete. Then I spent weeks tweaking a new one to my liking. The artist in me tends to be fussy!

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      1. I have noticed recently that books I bought on Amazon have a very different format that looks home made in spite of having a professional looking binding in contrast to paperbacks in the book stores. I used to do formatting of technical manuals so maybe I am just picky, lol.

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      2. So far, Amazon has offered me two ways to format my paperback books. One is their Kindle Create program, which I’ve used recently to make ebooks. The other is a downloaded template to use with a word processor, which seems like a complicated process. I’m still learning how to use the latter. But it offers the author more format choices, which, if I’m not careful, may result in some oddly formatted books.

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      3. I have not kept up with the tech. There are so many formats and different ways to publish now. I imagine it would be tricky trying to cover Print On Demand methods unless there is some universal standard that I am not aware of. I used to work with FrameMaker (one of early versions before they were purchased by Adobe) We used Standard Govt Markup Language (SGML). It was always fun in a non fun way when a small change wreaked havoc on an entire four hundred page manual a couple of days before the deadline, lol. Our lead hand was a wizard with that stuff and worth his weight in gold as he always managed to save the day.

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      4. I haven’t kept up with the POD business, but I hear almost all print companies use it now because it’s cheaper than offset printing, which is what I was trained in. My foray into digital printing was desktop publishing using various POD software and a good laser printer to publish my own books and art prints. Now I’m entrusting others to do it for me. I’m curious to see how it goes.

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