DIY Book, Episode Thirteen
Episode Thirteen:
Making Your
Pages
In this episode, we look
at how to prepare the pages of your novel for
printing as a book.
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The Book Designer
Blog - The Parts of a Book
The Book Designer
Blog - The Copyright Page
DIY Book, Episode Twelve
Episode Twelve:
Your Publishing Options
A look at the four main publishing options available
for getting your book out into the world.
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The Future of Publishing
Booklife
Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook
Nathan Bransford’s blog
The Burry Man
Preditors & Editors
One New York Times Bestseller Per Year
Will Barely Keep You Above The Poverty Line
Show Me the Money, Bitches
Café Press
Lulu
Lightning Source
Blurb
Writer Beware
Calibre
Sigil
Lib2Go
Smashwords
Cory Doctorow
DIY Book, Episode Eleven
Episode Eleven:
Fully Licensed
In this episode, we'll review all the bits of
legality and registration involved in publishing a
book — from protecting your ideas to making sure your
book can be found anywhere in the world.
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notes:
ISBN registration
Obtaining an ISBN - UK
Obtaining an ISBN - US
Obtaining an ISBN - Canada
Obtaining an ISBN - Other countries
Independent single ISBN resellers:
Aardvard Global Publishing
My Identifiers
Cataloguing-in-Publication, Legal
Deposit
UK CIP programme
UK legal deposit programme
Copyright & Creative Commons
Copyright overview on the Wikipedia
UK copyright office
Canadian copyright office
US copyright office
Creative Commons
DIY Book - Episode Ten
Episode Ten:
Preview of the Novel-to-Book Process
A preview of the next series of podcasts which will
teach you how to take your finished work and turn it
into a physical product you can share — in other
words, a book!
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DIY Book - Episode Nine
Episode Nine:
Fin!
At last, your beloved novel is finished! But here are
a few final touches to add before you go on.
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Editing cheat-sheet
Further
self-editing resources
DIY Book - Episode Eight
Episode Eight:
Serialise Like the Dickens
Serialise Like the Dickens. Your novel is underway,
and sharing your work in progress can be a great way
to keep it alive. But beware the lurking murderers!
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DIY Book - Episode Seven
Episode Seven:
The Writing Session
In this episode, we look at ways to outsmart mental
obstacles and get down to writing your novel.
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DIY Book - Episode Six
Episode Six:
The Novel Timeline
How long will take you to write your novel? And how
do you balance this with the rest of your life?
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Exercise sheets
DIY Book - Episode Five
Episode Five:
Chaptermath!
In this session, you'll break your story arc into
individual chapters, then divide those chapters into
scenes — leaving you ready to start writing your
book!
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DIY Book - Episode Four
Episode Four:
The Shape of Your Story
In this episode, you'll get to work defining what
particular story you're telling, and starting to map
it out.
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Exercise sheets
DIY Book - Episode Three
Episode Three:
Strength of Character
This episode contains several exercises to help you
define the characters who will populate your novel.
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Exercise sheets
DIY Book - Episode Two
Episode Two:
Snapshots,
Archetypes, Themes, & Gumption
We take a look at the way ideas begin to connect
after you've been gathering them for a while, the
major story archetypes, and some ways to prepare for
the task ahead.
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notes:
Exercise One
The Archetypal Stories:
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
http://everything2.com/title/Basic%2520plots
John Vorhaus:
http://vorza.com/
http://vorza.com/comicthroughline.htm
DIY Book - Episode One
Episode One:
Where do you get your ideas?
In this episode, we take a look at where you’ll get
the ideas that will ultimately become your book. This
involves training yourself to notice and capture
ideas, as well as finding a way to store them and
work with them that's effective for you.
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Thematic Apperception Test
Quick'n'Dirty Bookbinding
Software mentioned:
DIY Book - Introduction
This introductory episode of “DIY
Book” provides an overview of what’s to come
in the series.
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Exercise One
DIY Book
You can take your chances with this:
(Thanks, David Hewson.)
Or you can go about it this way:
Here’s what I’m proposing:
- Write your story.
- Make your own books.
- Find your readers.
- Make your books available to them.
Become a ‘zine novelist. Forget the nonsense about becoming a rich and famous celebrity. Forget about contests and meat-grinder submissions and the industry’s awful advice to reverse-engineer putrid bestsellers. Keep your day job, keep your soul, cut out the middlemen and do you own thing!
This series is FREE. It’s not a “super-secret industry report” or a teaser to get you to buy something else, and I’m not selling or representing Print-on-Demand services; I’m actually going to teach you how to make books yourself at home. Sure, feel free to buy my novels, but, honestly, this series is just me giving back what I’ve learned because I want to see more people realise and exercise their creative freedom.
You don’t need anyone’s permission!
If you'd like to be informed when I post new episodes, please send a message using the contact page. In the meantime, start thinking about that book you've always wanted to write!
(Series title illustrations by Manhattan, used under a Creative Commons license.)