Author Blog

Need to add a watermark to your ebook? You can do it in Jutoh by following these simple steps.

Now that we have the file created and the image perfected, it’s time to add text to your cover design! Choosing and placing fonts is a snap when you use the three design elements of contrast, alignment, and repetition.

Now that you’ve chosen your image for your cover design, what do you do next? In this tutorial, we’ll cover creating a Photoshop file for your cover, as well as placing and modifying your image.

Whether you’re creating your cover for print or ebook, you need a strong design that looks good as a thumbnail and at full size. Want to create a fantastic cover? Here are a few tips about picking a great image to get you started.

It may seem tempting to put your book out there immediately and start earning money, but good editing can make or break your novel. How many editors do you need?

Are your ebook images too large? Avoid common mistakes and make sure you have the best image size for ebook.

Have you tried using drop caps to set your ebook apart? This tutorial explains what drop caps are and how they can be accomplished, as well as some of the pitfalls you’ll encounter.

Should you publish your novel as an ebook? What about just publishing an ebook and forgoing the print version? What is right for your book?

Using custom fonts to set your ebook apart is easy to do. We’ll show you how to do it with Jutoh software. But be aware that there are some pitfalls.

Your best market consists of those readers who have already chosen to hear from you. In other words, you need a mailing list.

Will swearing hurt your book sales? Many readers today will not be offended by a certain amount of profanity in books, but shocking words often pull readers out of the story. Read this before you decide how much profanity to put in your next book.

We are excited to announce that My Book Ratings is almost ready for debut. On My Book Ratings all books submitted will have a permanent content-rated listing that readers will be able to search. Look for upcoming notices and get ready to post content-ratings on all your favorite books.

Romance often gets a bad rap, but romance sells more than any other genre besides general fiction. So today we share important tips on how to write a stronger romance novel.

Punctuation usually goes inside quotation marks, especially in dialogue, but that is not always the case with other usage. Deciding where to put punctuation with quotation marks is simple if you follow a few rules.

We see authors using a variety of single and double quotation marks in text, especially in dialog. Which way is the “right” way to do it? When should a double quotation mark be used versus a single quotation mark?

Images or dingbat fonts made into images can make great scene break icons, but making a scene break look good in your ebook and on vendor previewers can be a challenge if you don’t know about resolution.

Having an audio version of your book often helps your overall book sales, and anything that helps authors market their ebooks and earn more cash is something My Book Cave is very interested in.

Improper em dash formation screams inexperience, but em dashes are simple to make, and all authors can become an expert in a few minutes. Understand not only how to form em dashes, but also the difference between American and British usage. Start looking like a pro!

Change the speed that Microsoft Word’s “Speak” feature uses to dictate text back to you. It’s possible to do—and pretty easy, too. But it’s buried in your Windows settings, not in your Word program. Read on and we’ll tell you how to do it.