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Building a Fantasy World: Part 3 – Timeline Software
A new year has started so happy 2019 to my followers. Whatever project you intend to work on in 2019, may it bear fruit. It’s been a...
Lori-Ann Claude
Jan 11, 20195 min read
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Building a Fantasy World: Part 2 – Character Timeline
I’m very detailed oriented by nature. Every time I mention a detail about some event that happened previously, I check, double check, and...
Lori-Ann Claude
Oct 11, 20185 min read
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Building a Fantasy World: Part 1 – Managing Characters
A while back I promised that my posts about self-publishing would eventually give way to posts about writing. In my case, as I’m writing...
Lori-Ann Claude
Sep 13, 20184 min read
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How can I market my book?
Other than finding unique and creative ways no one has ever thought of, my answer to this question is to find experts on the subject of...
Lori-Ann Claude
Jul 31, 20183 min read
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How to Edit using Text To Speech
On Goodreads, a fellow author related their experience using Text to Speech (TTS) to edit their work. I didn’t do this for Resurgence but...
Lori-Ann Claude
Jul 22, 20183 min read
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A Writer's First Novel
Many avid readers get the writing bug after reading a book that disappointed them. Maybe the entire book didn’t meet expectations, the...
Lori-Ann Claude
Jun 3, 20186 min read
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Print Version Book Formatting
So now that the Kindle version of Resurgence is available, I'm working on creating the print version of the book. In my Where and How to...
Lori-Ann Claude
May 4, 20185 min read
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The Finish Line: PUBLISH
Well, I finally did it. I clicked Publish in Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). It can take up to 72 hours for the book to be available for...
Lori-Ann Claude
Apr 20, 20182 min read
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eBook Formatting
Since my last post, I’ve been working on formatting Resurgence so that it can be uploaded to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). KDP is the...
Lori-Ann Claude
Apr 11, 20189 min read
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Marketing
Since my last post, I’ve been navigating the world of marketing, getting informed about every aspect and I’m now saturated, read...
Lori-Ann Claude
Mar 28, 201811 min read
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Getting a Good Book Cover
Each book needs a cover. Resurgence is no exception. As I recently posted my book cover and book description (I finally came up with one...
Lori-Ann Claude
Mar 10, 20183 min read
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Making Good Publishing Decisions
As you can probably guess from my previous post, I’m not getting a lot of writing done (except to write these posts). I expected that to...
Lori-Ann Claude
Feb 9, 20186 min read
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Where and How to Self-Publish
In one of my first posts, I explained why I chose self-publishing over the traditional publishing route. Originally, I had decided to...
Lori-Ann Claude
Feb 5, 20187 min read
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Walk down memory lane
It turns out even though I was on vacation for 2 weeks, I didn’t take as much time as I wanted to complete the last items to publish...
Lori-Ann Claude
Jan 10, 20183 min read
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'Tis the season
Needless to say that in the weeks leading to Christmas, I'm having less time to devote to publishing Resurgence. Preparing for and...
Lori-Ann Claude
Dec 22, 20173 min read
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Time (part deux) and Progress Update
First, a few more comments about finding time to write. It turns out that the only French TV show I was watching ended at the end of...
Lori-Ann Claude
Dec 9, 20174 min read
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Time
For this post, I will discuss the frequent excuse many give for not writing: time. If time is limited, then it’s paramount to make the...
Lori-Ann Claude
Nov 21, 20174 min read
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Map Making
I’m covering this topic now because that’s what I’ve spent most of my time on in the past month to publish Resurgence. It also helped...
Lori-Ann Claude
Nov 18, 20175 min read
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Tagline - Part 2
It turns out that the approach of story problem, theme, pitch sentence, tagline doesn't work for me. It may work for others and great for...
Lori-Ann Claude
Nov 11, 20171 min read
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Tagline
I am taking a break from drawing the map for Resurgence to spend some time writing the blurb. At this point, it doesn't matter which gets...
Lori-Ann Claude
Nov 9, 20172 min read
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