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Self-Publishing Journal

Slartibartfast
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Broadly speaking, general-purpose fonts are divided into two families. Serif fonts. These are fonts like Times New Roman or Garamond which have serifs. These are little lines or strokes at the termination of letters. Originally these were used to mimic pen strokes. They still evoke the feel of...
Ah, typesetting. ...also illustration. Typesetting is great fun. The differences between ‘typesetting’ in a word-processor and typesetting in a dedicated program are relatively small in appearance but massive in effect. Word processors are not designed to produce print products beyond daily...
The error I see most often with other writers is that they assume that the reader knows what they do. This book is a how-to guide of sorts and I spent a long time agonising over the possibility that I had made a leap in logic or used a term but only defined it later. I wasn’t impressed enough...
Oh boy, this was fun. Proofreading and editing is an expensive service and involves a lot of trust. Anyone can charge you a few hundred to pretend to read your work. There’s also the saying that ‘opinions are like arseholes’ (everyone’s got one and nobody wants to hear it). Although there are...
Things I Learned When Using Fiverr: - The pricing model is a lot more attractive to people who live in countries where the average wage is lower than the West. Many people are not communicating in their first language, in fact, I’m pretty sure some of the guys I spoke to were using Google...
One of the places I turned to for ‘odd jobs’ that I either didn’t have the skill or the software to do myself was Fiverr. This was such an odd experience that I feel Fiverr is worth a quick look by itself before I talk about individual experiences with sellers. Fiverr is a freelance marketplace...
Step one, before I even thought about paying anyone to do anything or calling in any favours, was to look over the document myself. It's a short book at 35000 words but that's still quite a chunk of text. For writing, I use a program called Manuskript (free and open-source). I'm a Linux user...
This journal is about the self-publishing process. I spent the first few weeks of lockdown finishing off a non-fiction project. It’s sufficiently niche that I didn’t even bother looking for a publisher and went straight to self-publishing. The book is not relevant to this forum so I won’t go on...

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