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Please... help me to translate The Spanish Helmet into German. From as little as a $5 donation, you get a copy of the book. Or, be the hero (or villain) in my next novel by donating $1500. OK, $5 would be a great start. I will be grateful forever. And my pregnant translator (not my wife) will be able to stock up on chocolate-covered gherkins. Greg Scowen IndieGoGo Spanish Helmet Project ...Read more»

It takes some effort to get your book in the EPUB format. Sure, it is made much simpler with great free software like Calibre but it still doesn't happen by itself. So when you discover that you have a handful of misprints in your document and you want to clean them out (you want the best possible for your readers, right?) the last thing you want to have to do is go back and edit your original Word document and go ...Read more»

So many self-publishing gurus tell us that we need to have a book trailer, so I made one. But what do you do with the book trailer after production? Upload it to YouTube and forget it? Do that and a week later all you are likely to have as a return on your investment (be it time financial or time) is a handful of views. No, a book trailer needs to get out there, to as many places as possible. ...Read more»