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Author scams are getting worse (opens the original)
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Authors have always been the target of scammers and those trying to extract money from vulnerable people. This may seem like something of a paradox, given that writers famously tend to be broke, but apparently nobody told the scammers and criminals on the other end. I’m going to keep it fairly brief today but this is something worth shining a light on, so that we’re all equipped to identify the tricks being used against us. By the end of this you should be well armed to spot these things when th
Crafting serial fiction part 6: Ebooks, paperbacks & wider distribution (opens the original)
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Here it is, part 6 of our 5-part mini-series on Crafting serial fiction . As is appropriate for a series all about serials, we ended up running over slightly. This episode is something of a wrap-up. What are your options once you’ve completed the serialisation of your story? You have a manuscript ready to be transformed into other forms, so how can you make that happen? We natter about some of this: * Trad publishing, self-publishing and hybrid publishing * The DIY route and how much to do yours
Is Deckle a Scrivener replacement? (opens the original)
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Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no .” When journalists and reviewers frame a title as a question, it intrinsically suggests the presence of significant doubt; otherwise they would simply state it as fact. So, is Deckle a Scrivener replacement? No. Not yet. At this point I imagine the more pressing question is “what the heck is a Deckle?” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or g
Reedsy Studio: easy ebook and print formatting, but can it become your main writing tool? (opens the original)
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A few years ago I decided to publish my 2020 serial No Adults Allowed as a paperback and ebook. As with all my major projects, I’d written it in Scrivener. While I love Scrivener as a writing tool, it doesn’t really work for me as a design tool. Exporting a pretty book is harder than it should be! I turned to Reedsy Studio, and had a good time using it to produce the paperback. Quick and easy, free to use, with decent end results. Fast forward to 2026 and I’m again looking at book production, th
Crafting serial fiction part 5: Getting paid (in theory) (opens the original)
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We get to the big one: making money. Or, at least, it can be the big one, if you allow it. If you want it, there are levers to pull. You may want to simply write and not be sullied by the vagaries of capitalism. Perhaps there’s a happy place somewhere in the middle. In part 5 we poke at what we’ve done to turn our writing into an income stream of sorts. You may have noticed that neither me nor S.E. Reid are livestreaming from a mega-yacht, so use that to calibrate expectations. Some stuff that w
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