Perfect Pages by Aaron Shepard is an indispensable aid to someone who wants to produce a fully formatted book manuscript in Microsoft Word. Get it for about $12.60 at Amazon.com and read its 150+ pages, and you will save yourself a lot of grief. Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Now you may think, “I’ve used [...]
May 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Perfect Pages”–a guide to producing books with Microsoft Word
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Quain: Kindle worthless?
My friend and colleague, Bill Quain, sent me this shocking thought: The Kindle Is Practically Worthless I just heard a very interesting story about the Amazon Kindle. It demonstrates just how much publishing has changed, and how many opportunities there are today for authors – if you just open your eyes and your minds! It [...]
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Begin with the end in mind”
This is one of Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Successful People.” It also corresponds to an ancient Jewish dictum that is part of the Shabat service, “Lekha Dodi”: “Sof ma’aseh b’makhshava tkhila,” says the Hebrew–”The end of a deed is in prior thought.” Here’s the application to books: If you want to wind up [...]
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Manage your state
In book-writing, as in other activities, the quality and quantity of your output will depend on your state. No, I don’t mean California or New York. I’m referring to your internal state–the vector sum of your emotions and feelings. What comes up for you when you ask yourself, “How am I?” Serene? Frazzled? Happy? Grumpy? [...]
May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The dance of communication
I went to an amazing seminar this weekend. The focus was on sales–and I just saw you wrinkle your nose. That’s ok. That was my reaction, too, when I first thought about it. I see it differently now. Two years ago I began to realize that I was resisting sales. When I was a computer-aided [...]
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
5 questions you must answer
Why write this book? You’ve felt that you have a book inside you for some time, and you have had a growing sense what it is about. Or perhaps the idea just came to you: “I ought to write a book.” You came across the book you are now reading, and thought, “OK, I’ll do [...]