Photo by Janko Ferlič A great book is a bit like peering into the author’s brain. It’s as though you’ve spent an afternoon, every day for a year, absorbing the most intimate and considered thoughts of a brilliant mind. It’s also a vessel for time travel to the future — one in which you are… Continue reading
… is better than one that does not. It’s as simple as that. And for me, it’s the key to having a great day. What are you doing every morning that will make the rest of your day great? And if you’re not doing it, why not start now?
What’s the one thing you’re always procrastinating? The one thing you dread doing. The thing that keeps you up at night. The thing that you try to push into the recesses of your mind, and yet always finds a way back. Maybe it’s that work project that you can’t ever seem to finish. Or the… Continue reading
The simplest way to prepare your book for Kindle — while staying in control of formatting. Markdown is magic, and enables writers everywhere to do their work free from the distractions of bloated word processors. Going from Markdown to publishing on Kindle (aka Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP) can be a bit daunting if you’ve… Continue reading
New Year’s resolutions are for chumps. Most New Year’s resolutions are bound to fail. We just aren’t that good at discipline and self-control. And yet we still have a strongly held belief that willpower is something you can actually will into being. Believe that, and you’ll remain a statistic … and become yet another human… Continue reading
Here are some examples of Pandoc switches and CSS which I use in my ebooks. epub CSS file p { margin-bottom: 0; } /* remove the space between line breaks */ p + p { text-indent: 1.3em; margin-top: 0; } /* indent each new line, except when it is after a heading or hr tag… Continue reading
Google has 65 million suggestions on how to wake up early. I’m going to save you some time. It’s simple, really: Set a goal for the morning Set an alarm Get out of bed Complete your goal. But wait, you say — that’s not easy?! I never said it was easy. I said it was… Continue reading
Stephen King recommends that you read and write 4-6 hours a day. If you cannot find the time, you should always be able to find at least 1 hour (even if you have to hijack your lunch hour). If for some reason you can’t find even one damn hour — at which point I question… Continue reading
I’m a huge fan of Medium. I’m constantly finding amazing stories, and have recently started posting my own. I have one issue though: I can’t write in Markdown. Of course, I think everyone should write in Markdown everywhere, especially when publishing. I also believe that every writer should own their content, which means blogging on… Continue reading
This is part three of a series explaining how to publish your book using Markdown. PART ONE: How to write your book in Markdown PART TWO: Creating an eBook-friendly EPUB file from Markdown PART THREE: (This post) Create the Kindle MOBI file from your EPUB file Now that you have your EPUB file tested and… Continue reading