Posts Tagged ‘Self Publishing’

Literary Rambles Tuesday Tips #141 and Giveaway of THE MOON COIN

Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged Carolyn Arcabascio, giveaway, Literary Rambles, Richard Due, Self Publishing, The Moon Coin, tips, Tuesday Tips on August 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Literary Rambles

Spotlighting Children’s Book Authors, Agents, and Publishing

Literary Rambles was kind enough to ask me to do a piece for Tuesday Tips.

And they’re holding a giveaway for a print edition The Moon Coin! Go enter!

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Blue-lines!!!

Posted in Artwork, Gibbering Gnome Press, a Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, Typesetting, tagged Blue-lines, Carolyn Arcabascio, chapter art, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, giants, mermaids, mg, middle grade, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, The Moon Coin, Typesetting, ya on April 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Some pics of the blue-lines the printer sent me:

Technically, these are digital proofs, but they’ve been made to look exactly like traditional blue-lines burned from negatives, which I think is really cool! (Although dang hard to read!) Each page is a separate piece of paper, double-sided, formatted, and paginated exactly as it will appear in the book—except, of course, the light blue will be replaced by black ink! 🙂

I love the Gibbering Gnome Press colophon (that’s the little silhouette thingy above the press name) Carolyn designed.

This map of Treling is new for the print edition.

The pages with illustrations are on normal paper so I can spec the color.

Paperback and eBook now available:

Amazon and Second Looks Books.

Click HERE to Read Reviews of The Moon Coin.

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Gibbering Gnome Press, A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink^®

The Moon Realm^®

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Typesetting THE MOON COIN: The Print Edition

Posted in Artwork, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, Typesetting, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, book design, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, chapter art, Chapters, cover design, CS Indesign 5.5, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, font, Free, Free Chapters, giants, iBooks, iBookstore, illustration, illustrator, Indesign, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, Typesetting, typography, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on March 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Typesetting The Moon Coin: The Print Edition

These are some screen shots from CS Indesign 5.5.

When I was working on the eBook version of The Moon Coin, I was very limited in what I could do. Since then, Amazon has introduced a new Kindle .Mobi format that promises a slew of new features, including embedded fonts. After I finish evaluating what that means for users of older kindles, I may adopt that new format later this year. Similarly, Apple has recently introduced iAuthor, a new proprietary software program to build their ebooks. It also promises a slew of new features.

First up, a presentation shot.

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Here’s a detail shot of the graphic elements in the header.

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Here’s a detail shot of the graphic elements in the footer.

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The Howling Turtle Interview

Posted in Interviews, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, Chapters, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, Free, Free Chapters, giants, Howling Turtle, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on March 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Howling Turtle

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The Joys of Sick, or, Knowing When Your Book is Finished

Posted in The Dragondain, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, Chapters, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, Editing, epub, Faeries, fantasy, Free, Free Chapters, giants, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Dragondain, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on March 5, 2012| 4 Comments »

I reached one of my favorite book-writing milestones today. I’m sick of my book! Don’t worry. It’s mostly temporary, I hope, and it happened at just the right time: seven years and about twenty-five editing passes in. (If I’d gotten sick of it earlier—trust me—I’d be seriously depressed.)

What did I do to celebrate, you ask? Well, yesterday, as the printer in my hallway was still warming down its jets (ink-low lights blinking furiously), I slid into the Post Office just ten minutes before closing time, slapped a delivery conformation sticker on my handmade cardboard box, and sent it roaring off to Carolyn Arcabascio, the illustrator extraordinaire for The Moon Realm Series.

Sure, The Dragondain still needs more work, but I’m looking forward to being truly ill? during the final read-through and polish. 😀 I’M SO HAPPY!

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Howling Turtle Reviews THE MOON COIN

Posted in Reviews, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, Chapters, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, Free, Free Chapters, giants, Howling Turtle, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on March 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Howling Turtle reviews The Moon Coin

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ForeWord Reviews Reviews THE MOON COIN

Posted in Reviews, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, Chapters, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, ForeWord Reviews, Free, Free Chapters, giants, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Molly Horan, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on February 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

ForeWord Reviews reviews The Moon Coin

“The Moon Coin is a beautifully written fantasy novel, perfect for middle graders to pore over themselves or as a bedtime story for younger kids. The descriptions of everything, from Uncle Ebb’s electronic fish-bird hybrids to the fanciful creatures Lily meets in the Moon Realm, are so rich that the action instantly comes alive for the reader.” —Molly Horan of ForeWord Reviews

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Courtney’s Book Nook Reviews THE MOON COIN

Posted in Reviews, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, Chapters, Courtney's Book Nook, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, Free, Free Chapters, giants, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on February 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Courtney’s Book Nook reviews The Moon Coin

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Brazen Broads Book Bash Get Their Rave On

Posted in Reviews, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Brazen Broads Book Bash, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, Chapters, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, Free, Free Chapters, giants, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on February 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Brazen Broads Book Bash review The Moon Coin.

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A Sampling of First Pages

Posted in Artwork, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Amazon, Apple, author blog, author interview, Barnes & Noble, best, blog, book, Carolyn Arcabascio, Chapter, chapter art, Chapters, Cover Art, Dragon, Dystopian, ebook, epub, Faeries, fantasy, Free, Free Chapters, giants, iBooks, iBookstore, indie, Indie Author, indie publishing, Indle eBook, interview, iPad, Kindle, mermaids, mg, middle grade, middle grade fantasy, Nook, Publishing, review, Richard Due, Self Published, Self Publishing, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, ya, ya fantasy, ya fantasy series on February 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Some first pages, featuring illustrations by Carolyn Arcabascio.

You might not want to read the chapter text below the illustrations too carefully. I don’t think you’ll find any huge spoilers, but you could pick up on some cool bits that you might not want to know beforehand. 🙂