Interior Book FormatTing
Guess what. You need to format the interior of your book too. A great cover is important to capture the reader and convince them to buy the book, but interior formatting is an art as well. Being a technology guy, I...
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Writing, technology, locations, and behind-the-scenes updates from Gregory R. Simpson.
The back Cover blurb
I found one of the more difficult things to write for the book is the back cover blurb. I thought I’d share the draft text of the back cover here. Let me know your thoughts. Does it catch your attention...
Why don't you publish it now
As it turns out, there is still a lot to do. Here’s my short list: Writing Get feedback from beta readers Get developmental editor feedback Edit, Edit, Edit Write the cover descriptive prose Administrative ISBN Copyright Artistic Book Cover Book...
Finishing Touches
Hello friends, I continue to put the finishing touches on The Quantum Contingent . I looked back at how it has changed over the last few months. The easiest metric is word count. From a cover-to-cover perspective, the novel progressed...
One more chapter…
Some people have been surprised to hear that I have “beta” readers. Beta readers are not unlike software beta testers, They are early adopters who try your software/manuscript out and give you feedback on how they liked it. (They also...
first line frenzy
I listened to a First Line Frenzy stream today by @RFaithEditorial in conjunction with Reedsy. In first line frenzy, an editor, Rebecca Faith, quickly critiques the opening line in a long list of novels, It’s an interesting way to pick up...
Outer Space
I am back from vacation. I took a week off from the blog last week and am now rejuvenated and ready to push this book across the finish line. I have about twenty beta readers reading my draft manuscript and...
The Beta Is out, so I'm taking a week off of the blog!
Have a great week… talk to you soon! (I took the picture below in Ngorongoro Crater, one of the locations in The Quantum Contingent )
New Chapters… and a photoblog
I did a lot of editing this past week in preparation for the beta reader release. In fact, I added two chapters. One was entirely new, the other was more of a split of an earlier chapter into two chapters....
Bitcoin Mining
Last week, I talked about bitcoin and tried to explain it in simple terms by comparing it to virtual gold. This week I continue that thread by talking about bitcoin mining. One of the parallels bitcoin has to gold is...