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Learning how to format ebook chapters is easy once you know how to do it correctly. For a print book, you don’t need to take much care. What you see in your Word document will stay the same when you convert it to pdf. But for an ebook, you can’t use your return key to…
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New writers can easily believe the many myths about writing and writers they might read online. However, some of them are offering terrible writing advice. Others may be untrue or are at least stretching the truth. If you are a new writer, some of the advice you read can affect your confidence. Writing and publishing…
Every writer needs to know how to rewrite a sentence. It’s always part of editing to add variety to your writing or make certain elements more precise or powerful. It’s not quite the same as paraphrasing because that can be when you take words from another source and turn them into your own words. Rewriting…
Is it bare your soul or bear your soul? The correct expression is bare your soul. Bear your soul is incorrect. Many fixed expressions use either bare or bear, so it’s easy to make mistakes. But if you understand the meaning of each word, it will make things easier. Bare vs. Bear Yes, a bear…
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What is KENP? For new Amazon authors, it is important to understand this acronym. KENP stands for Kindle Edition Normalised Pages. Amazon uses the process as the formula to calculate the number of ebook pages read by a Kindle Unlimited subscriber. You earn royalties for every page of your ebook that a reader reads. Amazon determines…
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Can you self-publish a hardcover book? Yes, you can. You can use Amazon KDP or another self-publishing service to produce your book. Then you can sell your hardcover on Amazon and have it linked to your other versions. However, it is not a simple process like self-publishing ebooks and print-on-demand paperbacks. For a lot of authors,…
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Embedded questions, sometimes called indirect questions, are easy to use when you want to add more variety to your writing. We use them to change a direct question into a statement form. Indirect questions, which are also called polite questions, are one form of embedded questions. But you can use other forms to convert a…
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Learning how to change passive sentences to active voice is a skill all writers need. In most instances, all you need to do is move the subject before the verb. In a passive sentence, there is often the operator word, by before the object. But without one, it can be unclear who or what performs…
Author promotion is probably the last thing on a new author’s mind when publishing their first book. Promoting a book is relatively easy. There are plenty of options for book advertising as well as book promotion services. A new author also has plenty of alternatives when it comes to using free book marketing ideas and…
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Your choice of software for book editing will make all the difference to the final quality of your manuscript. Editing tools are indispensable for all authors, no matter how experienced. Writing a book is the easy part. But after you finish writing your first draft, you will need all the help you can get to…
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