Of course, I could have solved my book cover dilemma by stuffing everything into one encyclopedic volume. The idea of turning my horse training blogs into a series of books on horse training actually came from my Fly-By-Night publisher. At first, their insistence that no one would ever read a book longer than 40,000 words […]
Book covers are big on the list of challenges for the independent publisher. They are how mainstream publishing industry grabs reader’s attention so they will buy the book. Different genres of books have different types of covers. The cover of an anatomy text tends not to look much like the cover of a mystery novel. […]
Even though I have worked out the star guides for the journeys and tasks of Gawain and Fierefiz, Parzival’s half-brother, in my archeo-astronomical ordering of Parzival’s quest, I’ve let that project slide to the back of the burner for a while. While a fun intellectual exercise I was not at all sure that the stories […]
One of my questions my Fly By Night publisher never responded to was how to go about getting a couple of beta readers for my manuscripts. I have this peculiar and persistent idea that my instructions and stories on horse training should be tested to make sure that they are accessible, engaging, and usable before […]
If you look up the causes of metabolic acidosis on the internet, electrical shock is right up there on the top of the list, along with crushing injuries, and medications. Rhabdomyolysis is specifically the rapid breakdown of skeletal muscle and symptoms include weight gain, muscle weakness, fatigue, confusion, nausea and compartment syndrome. In chronic compartment […]
It turned out to be a good thing I decided to check out and review the companies offering e-publishing before I made any decisions Apparently a parent company called Pearson owns a ton of e-publishers under various names and they are all under investigation for a class action suite for taking independent authors for all […]
It has been an interesting couple of months here in real life. My health has its own story as usual, and has been taking up way to much of my time. And my excursion into the realms of fly-by-night publishers has been quite educational. I was contemplating how difficult it is to tell how much […]
