by Meryl Yourish | Jul 19, 2015 | Amazon, Conventions, Publishing
Over on a FB group titled Children’s Books, we’ve been experiencing a little spam lately. (Okay, maybe more than a little.) From some bozos wanting us to pay for Amazon reviews to people insisting they can teach us how to make $5k a month on Kindle.... by Meryl Yourish | May 7, 2014 | Publishing
I keep up with news on publishing and writing. It’s a good habit for all writers to get into, and it’s pretty easy to set up a personalized Google News view. I saw an article today detailing a company called Blurb getting into ebooks. So I dug around on... by Meryl Yourish | Apr 25, 2013 | Publishing
The trade paperback is no longer on sale at Amazon, though I did see an uptick in sales. Perhaps they’ll run a sale again sometime when more people know my book exists. The posters of the cover arrived on Monday and they are excellent. I’m going to have a... 
by Meryl Yourish | Nov 19, 2012 | Publishing, The Catmage Chronicles
Last week I got a wonderful birthday present: My blog readers, friends, and family helped push Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles into triple digits. Thanks to everyone who purchased a copy by November 15th, it was my second-best birthday ever. I... 
by Meryl Yourish | Aug 26, 2012 | Publishing
Since I’m publishing a print version as well as an ebook of the novel, formatting became a big part of the lead-up to publish. Adobe InDesign is the industry standard, and while I’ve had some experience with the program, it was brief and ages ago. In fact,...