Steven’s conversation touched on many writing topics, so I’ve tried to collect things under headings for you. Please let me know if I’ve missed any favorite nuggets from what he had to say.
Continue reading Writing Advice from Steven Campbell, author of Hard Luck Hank, May 2022Category Archives: self-publishing
Writers’ Mill Minutes May 15th 2022
Writers’ Mill Minutes May 15 2022
Sunday’s Writers’ Mill meeting was well attended with several new people joining us to listen to Steven Campbell talking about the writing life. The meeting started with a great presentation of the May “Reach for the Sky” contest results from Lyndsay.
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Writers’ Mill Minutes 202105
May’s meeting was well attended, and we delighted in the mix of new and old members, prompting discussions of how we will meet when real-world attendance becomes possible again. Laura assures us the library is planning to set things up so distant members can continue to attend by Zoom. Like many other library groups, we look forward to welcoming back those who couldn’t Zoom, and continuing to welcome those who’ve joined us because of Zoom. Watch this space…
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 202105Writers’ Mill Minutes 202104
If you weren’t one of the 18 people at April’s meeting, you missed a lively and informative discussion, followed by a lively and informative critique. But you probably enjoyed the Sunday sunshine, so it’s all good!
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 202104The Story of a Bilingual Picture Book in a Time of Covid, from Jim Mockford’s talk, 02/21/21
Sheila met Jim Mockford at a Willamette Writers’ virtual coffee morning, and was fascinated by all the ways he was planning to advertise his book, so she and Jean invited him to speak to us and were delighted when he accepted. We were even more delighted when he joined our group as a new member a few months back!
Continue reading The Story of a Bilingual Picture Book in a Time of Covid, from Jim Mockford’s talk, 02/21/21Writers’ Mill Minutes 202102
Writers’ Mill Minutes Feb 21st 2021
We tried out a new Zoom meeting format this month, with a ten-minute snack-and-get-to-know-you break in the middle, to emulate those delicious snack breaks we used to have in real life. Matthew reminded us that this was the one-year anniversary of our last real-world meeting, so a good date for reinstituting snacks. Also we have lots of knew people who we’d love to get to know. In fact, we had so many members at the meeting, there were too many for a single Zoom screen for while! A great achievement, and we hope you all enjoyed the meeting.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 202102How to Release a Book on Amazon, presentation by Sheila Deeth, Nov 15th 2020
How to Release a Book on Amazon
There’s a certain amount of preparation required, so bear with us while we go through some of it.
Continue reading How to Release a Book on Amazon, presentation by Sheila Deeth, Nov 15th 2020We made a book, and you can too!
Our “Let’s make another book” presentation covered and/or touched the following book-creation topics, with notes and additional information below:
- How to Title your book
- How to Format your book
- How to Edit your book
- How to Prepare your book for Printing
- How to Prepare your book for Kindle
- How to Upload your ebook
- How to use Amazon’s Cover Creator
- How to Upload your print book (and use Cover Creator again!)
- How to get your book onto your Author Page (yes, I know, I didn’t have time to cover this, but some of you asked…)
Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117
November’s meeting brought 13 of us to watch and assist in the uploading of The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 7 to Amazon. Those of you who missed it missed some fantastic healthy snacks from Ria and an ongoing scene of great stress, excitement and triumph. The minutes below are LONG because I’ve tried to cover everything we did and all the questions I was asked about what we might not have done. So here goes… Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117