One of my college English classes involved writing a story about a childhood experience. Fast forward about three years (and through lots of edits, illustrations, and Google searches about self-publishing), and we have The Mud Bird, now a published Kindle ebook! It's currently at $1.99 through December, although we will be raising the price sometime in January.… Continue reading The Mud Bird – Published!
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The Mud Bird: Feedback from the Experts
Who do you ask to review a children's book? Children, of course. They're honest, blunt, and often right. After preparing an initial e-book draft of the Mud Bird, my wife and I asked a few families with children to read it and tell us what they thought. One family let us read the book out loud.… Continue reading The Mud Bird: Feedback from the Experts
The Mud-Bird Process
Learning what goes into self-publishing an ebook is an interesting process. Below are some of the steps my wife and I have taken. -Editing. Even if I hadn't been told that editing is a must, I'd still have the Mud-Bird story edited. So many otherwise well-formatted ebooks have sloppy editing, even—no, especially—ebooks that cost more… Continue reading The Mud-Bird Process
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