From Draft to Book
*Updated September 22, 2023, to reflect changes at KDP and IngramSpark. Updated book has a computer on the cover.*Struggling to publish your book? Discover a seasoned expert's techniques for putting your masterwork into a reader's hands.With a degree in publishing and two decades spent as a freelance editor, book coach Kara Starcher has helped dozens of aspiring authors reach their publishing goals. After listening to her clients and other writers, she put together a list of the most common questions asked about self-publishing. The result? The contents of From Draft to Book: A Guide to Self-publishing.If you've battled with how to get your finished work published, this comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide will soon have you checking all the boxes. And by following Starcher's step-by-step process to produce a book, your words can go from buried on a hard drive to out into the world of excited readers in just a short time. Armed with confidence to do things the right way, you will give yourself the best chance at earning that coveted bestseller badge.The book's four parts-Writing and Editing, Designing, Printing, and Planning-cover basic information about each specific stage of book production. Topics discussed include: How to choose an editorMoney and contractsElements of page designDIY cover basicsFinal print submission filesBook specs for printingISBNs and barcodesTitle setupPricing, discounts, and returnsand more (use the Look Inside to see the Contents).The book concludes with a three-month, week-by-week plan of practical steps to help you publish your book. Before you know it, readers will be holding the final product in their hands and you will be reaping the rewards of your investment.Read the book from cover to cover or only the sections you need when you need them. Quickly find the answers to common questions about self-publishing. No more wasted time searching Facebook groups or reading multiple blog posts and articles. Pick up From Draft to Book and start your self-publishing journey today.Available in paperback or ebook. 180 pp.
Theatre Translation
Translation for the theatre is often considered to hold a marginal status between literary translation and adaptation for the stage. As a result, this book argues that studies of this complex activity tend to take either a textual or performative approach. After exploring the history of translation theory through these lenses, Massimiliano Morini proposes a more totalizing view of 'theatre translation' as the sum of operations required to transform one theatre act into another, and analyses three complex Western case histories in light of this all-encompassing definition. Combining theory with practice, Morini investigates how traditional ideas on translation - from Plautus and Cicero to the early 20th century - have been applied in the theatrical domain. He then compares and contrasts the inherently textual viewpoint of post-humanistic translators with the more performative approaches of contemporary theatrical practitioners, and chronicles the rise of performative views in the third millennium. Positioning itself at the intersection of past and present, as well as translation studies and theatre semiotics, Theatre Translation provides a full diachronic survey of an age-old activity and a burgeoning academic field.
India's Greatest Speeches
India's Greatest Speeches is a stimulating collection of thoughtful speeches delivered by some of the most prominent Indian personalities. Set to inspire, this book includes some of the most stirring and eloquent addresses by Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Mother Teresa, JRD Tata, Abdul Kalam, Nardendra Modi and other influential Indian leaders. This impelling selection of expressive moments of oratory would provide the reader a fresh perspective evoke feelings of patriotism, inspiration and unbounded motivation. Nitin Agarwal introduces each speech with relevant information, providing valuable insight.
7 Step Self-Publishing Guide
This book will describe how to publish a book in seven steps. It is easy to read, well informative and full of good ideas.
Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case studies. The first two are St Jerome and Arator, late antique writers who became highly influential partly due to their declaration that their literary projects enjoyed papal sanction. Appreciation of their publication strategies sets the scene for a comparison with two eleventh-century authors, Fulcoius of Beauvais and St Anselm. This Element argues that papal involvement in publication constituted a powerful promotional technique. It is a hermeneutic that brings insights into both the aspirations and concerns of medieval authors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Composition Studies 49.3 (Fall 2021)
The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs, which contextualize, theorize, and reflect on the content and pedagogy of a course. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome (send to compstudies@uc.edu). Cfps, announcements, and letters to the editor are most welcome. Composition Studies does not consider previously published manuscripts, unrevised conference papers, or unrevised dissertation chapters. CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 49.3 (Fall 2021): From the Editors: 2021, in Words AT A GLANCE: Teaching, Writing, Gaming by Richard Colby, Matthew S. S. Johnson, and Rebekah Shultz Colby ARTICLES: Are We Overlooking (and Underselling) the Writing Capstone Course? by Timothy Ballingall and Brad Lucas "Sometimes I Forget I'm in an Online Class!" Why Place Matters for Meaningful Student Online Writing Experiences by Felicita Arzu Carmichael "How am I Supposed to Watch a Little Piece of Paper?" Literacy and Learning Under Duress by Carrie Hall Tracing Ableism's Rhetorical Circulation through an Analysis of Composition Mission Statements by Kristin C. Bennett COURSE DESIGN: Global Efforts to Professionalize Online Literacy Instructors: GSOLE's Basic OLI Certification by Amy Cicchino, Kevin DePew, Jason Snart, and Scott Warnock ENGL 1100 Contextualized: Designing a FYW Course for Guided Pathways by Nancy Pine WHERE WE ARE: Writing in the West African Context by Linford O. Lamptey and Roland Dumavor Something of Our Own to Say: Writing Pedagogy in India by Anuj Gupta and Anannya Dasgupta Transforming the Teaching of Writing from a Skills-Based Approach to a Knowledge Construction Approach in a University in Singapore by Radhika Jaidev Writing Instruction and Writing Research in Denmark by Kristine Kabel and Jesper Bremholm Teaching of Writing in Hong Kong: Where Are We? by Icy Lee Weh Wi Deh / Veh Vi Is / Where We Are: Teaching and Researching Academic Writing in the Caribbean by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette (Re)Writing the Middle East: Tension, Engagement, and Rhetorical Translanguaging by Emma Moghabghab On the Teaching of University Writing in Latin America by Natalia ?vila Reyes and Federico Navarro Writing Instruction in Australia by Susan E. Thomas BOOK REVIEWS: Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation, ed. by Tara Lockhart, et al. Reviewed by Christine Wilson PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors, ed. by Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle Reviewed by Omar Yacoub The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, by Felicia Rose Chavez Reviewed by Siara Schwartzlow Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Writing Studies, ed. by Jessica Edwards, Meg McGuire, and Rachel Sanchez Reviewed by Stacy Wittstock Sixteen Teachers Teaching: Two-Year College Perspectives, ed. by Patrick Sullivan Reviewed by Bethany Sweeney Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher: Pedagogies and Policies, ed. by Meryl Siegal and Betsy Gilliland Reviewed by Katherine Daily O'Meara Style and the Future of Composition Studies, ed. by Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri Reviewed by Roberto S. Leon Contributors
Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal
University literary journals allow students to create their own venue for learning, have a hands-on part of their development in real-world skills, and strive towards professional achievement. But producing an undergraduate literary magazine requires commitment, funding, and knowledge of the industry. This practical guide assists students and faculty in choosing a workable structure for setting up, and then successfully running, their own literary publication. Whether the journal is print or online, in-house or international, Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal is a step-by-step handbook, walking the reader through the process of literary journal production. Chapters focus on: defining the journal; the financial logistics; editing the journal; distribution; and what could come next for a student writer-editor after graduation. The first book of its kind to offer instruction directly to those running university-based literary magazines, this book includes insights from former editors, advisers, students and features an extensive list of active student-run literary magazines key literary organizations for writers/editors who serve literary publications. From Audrey Colombe, faculty adviser on the award-winning Glass Mountain magazine from the University of Houston, this is a text for both newcomers and those more informed on the production process to help them navigate through a successful publishing experience.
Structured Literacy Interventions
Comprehensive and evidence-based, Structured Literacy (SL) approaches place a high value on explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction. This book brings together leading experts to present a wealth of SL interventions for different components of literacy. Chapters describe instructional strategies for supporting phonological awareness, basic and multisyllabic word decoding, spelling, reading fluency, vocabulary, oral and reading comprehension, and written expression, especially for at-risk readers and those with disabilities. Including case studies, sample intervention activities, lesson plans, and end-of-chapter application activities, the book contains reproducible tools that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 81/2" x 11" size. An NCTQ Exemplary Text for Reading Instruction See also Louise Spear-Swerling's authored volume, The Structured Literacy Planner: Designing Interventions for Common Reading Difficulties, Grades 1-9, which provides blueprints for tailoring interventions based on a learner's reading profile.
Writing Clubs
Ask teachers about their biggest challenges in elementary and middle school, and many will say the teaching of writing. It is often difficult for students find the joy, discovery, and satisfaction writing can yield.
Medieval Texts and Images
Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a collection of essays which critically examines medieval manuscripts. The book contains a wide range of contributions, the first examines the relationship of the L矇gende Dor矇e and its relationship to the aristocratic patrons who commissioned these manuscripts; the second scrutinises the tradition of French illumination as it was developed in Paris in the so-called Bedford Master's workshop in the 1420s. The text examines liturgical texts of the medieval period and written and liturgical contributions to Renaissance art. Other contributions include an investigation into the written scroll within the painted composition, comparing various compositional and thematic functions in the depiction of a Crucifixion and a study of Christian vernacular poetry. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the use of text and image in medieval literature.
Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice
This book examines literacy practices of commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup in Argentina. Drawing on research conducted across three distinct sites in Buenos Aires in March 2016-a public university, a Catholic church, and a former naval base and clandestine detention center transformed into a museum space for memory and justice-this book sheds light on the ways commemorative literacies at these locations work spatially to mobilize memory of the past to address and advance justice concerns in the present. These labors of justice manifest in three ways: as resistance, reconciliation, and recovery. Damico, Lybarger, and Brudney also demonstrate how these particular kinds of commemorative literacies resonate transnationally in ways that necessitate a commitment to commemorative ethics.　 This book is ideal not only for researchers, graduate students, and scholars in literacy studies but also for all those working in related fields, including memory studies, religious studies, area studies, and Latin American studies, to address issues pertaining to memory, testimony, transitional justice, state repression, and human rights in Argentina, Latin America, or the Global South, more generally.
Alice in Wonderland Set of 3 MIDI Notebooks
The Alice in Wonderland Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features a collection of three midi, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design by Sir John Tenniel: The White Rabbit, Alice and the Cheshire Cat and Alice and the Caterpillar. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remains one of the best-loved fantasy tales, with the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat enjoying an enduring legacy in popular imagination. This gorgeous Collection includes works by Sir John Tenniel and shows some of the most iconic scenes and characters from the book. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Writing the Research Paper
Covering both theoretical and practical approaches, Writing the Research Paper guides students studying in English as a second or additional language through the skills necessary for success in university-level writing and research. The book begins with theoretical considerations, such as research, argumentation and critical thinking. It then offers a broad range of practical assistance covering all aspects of the writing process, including topic selection, argument, counter-argument, paragraph structure and cohesion. The book is accompanied by a companion website, writingtheresearchpaper.com. The website hosts many features, including chapter summaries, exercises, quizzes, PowerPoints, additional learning material, and technology assistance. The website also hosts numerous authentic examples of student papers at each of the critical stages of the writing process.
5 Steps to Author Success
The key to becoming a bestselling author is to understand what readers love.Are you trying to get published? Are you a self published author with great reviews but disappointing sales?I was just like you. After three years of publishing, I was no closer to my goal of being a full time author. So I took a good hard look at my author career to see what I needed to change.Two years later, I've sold half a million books and have had multiple titles in the Amazon UK Top 100.This book is the story of how I did it - and how you can use what I learned to become a bestseller too.
Literature and Science Before 1840
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Edward Moxon
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Adam & Charles Black, 1807-1957
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Symbolism and Fiction
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Books for All
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From Swan Sonnenschein to George Allen & Unwin, Ltd
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Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation
This book shows that examining the use of collocations constitutes an integral part in assessing the naturalness of second language use, and can be a valid measure distinguish between translational language and native-speaker language.
Indigenous Cultural Translation
Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with the Japanese colonizers at or around a hill station called Musha starting on October 27, 1930, while this book celebrates the grandchildren of headhunters, rebels, and collaborators who translated the Mandarin-language screenplay into Seediq in central Taiwan nearly eighty years later.As a "thick description" of Seediq Bale, this book describes the translation process in detail, showing how the screenwriter included Mandarin translations of Seediq texts recorded during the Japanese era in his screenplay, and then how the Seediq translators backtranslated these texts into Seediq, changing them significantly. It argues that the translators made significant changes to these texts according to the consensus about traditional Seediq culture they have been building in modern Taiwan, and that this same consensus informs the interpretation of the Musha Incident and of Seediq culture that they articulated in their Mandarin-Seediq translation of the screenplay as a whole. The argument more generally is that in building cultural consensus, indigenous peoples like the Seediq are "translating" their traditions into alternative modernities in settler states around the world.
Translation, Reception and Canonization of the Art of War
This book presents a systematic and in-depth investigation into the translation and reception of The Art of War in the western strategic culture.
This Word Now
This book is built to start fires. Whether you're an aspiring writer just starting out or a seasoned author working to complete your next novel, This Word Now is a box of matches and a stack of kindling. Through a series of essays and exercises, acclaimed writers and instructors Jodi and Owen Egerton guide you through techniques for cultivating creativity, building narratives, and energizing your writing with passion and play. Filled with insight, humor, and anecdotes from the writing life, this book is the perfect companion for writers looking to sharpen their craft.
Government Translation in South Korea
This is the first book to investigate and discuss translation processes and translation products in South Korean government institutions, employing a parallel corpus-based approach. This book explores important facets of Korean government translation by drawing on the theoretical framework of institutional translation.
Literacy 6th Edition
Your literacy guide to take into the profession, Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Sixth Edition, is the most comprehensive text for pre-service teachers to learn how to teach literacy. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing, and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory in their classrooms. This new edition has been completely revised and streamlined to create stronger links from education to professional practice. The accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions to help readers put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and demonstrate how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginner through to accomplished.
The Conflict Thesaurus
Every story starts with a character who is motivated by a need and has a goal that can resolve it. Whether their objective is to find a life partner, bring a killer to justice, overthrow a cruel regime, or something else, conflict transforms a story premise into something fresh. Physical obstacles, adversaries, moral dilemmas, deep-seated doubts and personal struggles...these not only block a character's external progress, they become a gateway for internal growth. The right conflict will build tension and high stakes, challenge characters as they traverse their arcs, and most importantly, keep readers emotionally invested from beginning to end. Inside Volume 1 of The Conflict Thesaurus, you'll find: A myriad of conflict options in the form of relationship friction, failures and mistakes, moral dilemmas and temptations, pressure and ticking clocks, and no-win scenariosAn analysis of each scenario that maps out possible complications and catastrophes, internal struggles, and the stressful impacts on a character's basic human needsGuidance on using conflict to influence your protagonist's character arc through opportunities for failure and successMaster class instruction on internal conflict: what it is, why it's important, and how to incorporate it at the scene and story levelsInformation about the role conflict plays in generating high stakes that are personally significant to the character, upping the tension for readersA breakdown of the various adversaries your character might encounter along the wayDon't give your character a break. Keep the hits coming with a variety of obstacles that will force them to work harder to get what they want. With over 100 entries arranged in a user-friendly format, The Conflict Thesaurus is the guide you need to write intense and satisfying fiction readers won't forget.
Hurling Words Into Darkness
For thousands of years we've had theories and rules about writing based on tradition, philosophy, esthetics, poetics, scholarship, mysticism, and arbitrary dictates. Meanwhile, over only the past few decades, cognitive science has discovered much about how the human mind sees and orders the world and extracts meaning from it. It's high time we mix some brain science into our thinking about reading and writing.Peter Gelfan has been a book editor for more than 25 years, editing for writers ranging from best-selling authors to first-timers. His novel Found Objects was published in 2013 and Monkey Temple in 2019. He lives in New York City, where he continues to write, work as a freelance book editor, and tutor writing in a public high school as part of PEN's Writers in the Schools program.
52 Weeks of Horror
This is no ordinary prompt book. The prompts here have been carefully selected and paired with additional creative activities designed to help you rethink what you know about your writing processes. It won't just ask you to write a story and forget about it by the next week, it will show you how to reflect and evolve as a writer. It will help you stay motivated so you can finally finish that novel. It will show you WHY you write.If you use this book, you will discover the hidden shapes of your stories, experiment with weird new genre mixes, and rewrite the history of your favourite characters.- Phillip Carter is a published author with a master's Degree in Creative Writing. He founded and chaired the Writer's and Poetics Society at Edge Hill University from 2014 to 2017, and since then has been relentlessly writing an increasingly dark Sci-Fi multiverse.You can find his work at realphillipcarter.substack.com
What Is a Book?
Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. Part I of What Is a Book? covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book--size, paper, type, illustration; Part II treats the history of book-copies--from cataloging conventions and provenance to electronic media and their implications for the study of books. Dane begins with the central distinction between a "book-copy"--the particular, individual, physical book--and a "book"--the abstract category that organizes these copies into editions, whereby each copy is interchangeable with any other. Among other issues, Dane addresses such basic questions as: How do students, bibliographers, and collectors discuss these things? And when is it legitimate to generalize on the basis of particular examples? Dane considers each issue in terms of a practical example or question a reader might confront: How do you identify books on the basis of typography? What is the status of paper evidence? How are the various elements on the page defined? What are the implications of the images available in an online database? And, significantly, how does a scholar's personal experience with books challenge or conform to the standard language of book history and bibliography? Dane's accessible and lively tour of the field is a useful guide for all students of book history, from the beginner to the specialist.
The Best Public Speaking Book
Former comedy club host, online philosophy professor, and keynote speaker, Dr. Matt Deaton, demystifies public speaking as nothing more than idea transfer. His ambitiously titled The Best Public Speaking Book covers everything from preparation to posture, microphones to mindset, hand gestures to hecklers. And Deaton does it with such endearing levity that you forget you're learning to do something scarier than dying (according to Seinfeld).The core is captured by his Three Commandments: I. Know Thy Material II. Be Thyself III. Practice Study your subject, polish your authentic stage self, and rehearse, and you're more than halfway there. To get the rest of the way there's: The Urban Honey Badger (honored on the book's cover) - an unconventional assertiveness drill designed to vanquish nervousness and build a confident (and slightly edgy) stage presence How to develop a message that's easy for you to deliver and for your audience to absorb (when points logically flow, everyone wins) How to tailor your silent message to win your audience's respect and attention How to quickly recover when things go wrong (Blackout? Fire? No problem!) Growth assignments that take readers from the easiest of the easy (Checkout Speech is literally practicing your delivery in line at the grocery), through a library volunteer assignment (the audience is little kids, so the pressure's low - brilliant way to safely build experience), all the way through readers' original reason for studying public speaking (whether for school, work, or the prison talent show) How to effectively use PowerPoint (hint: visuals > text), present to a remote audience (assume they're watching Netflix... on the potty), select a quality clicker (hint: range > lasers) All the classic essentials, too: enunciation ("Rubber baby buggy bumpers..."), voice projection, eye contact (for audience members without face tattoos, anyway), when (and when not) to use a lectern, why reading a script is the lowest form of public speaking (good news: follow Deaton's Three Commandments and you won't need a script). Add a humble professor's touch - coaching, encouragement and inspiration (something Deaton admits needing lots of when he began), and you've got one heck of an engaging and effective book. Readers might also accidentally learn to overcome procrastination, transcend perfectionism, supplant negativity with optimism, grow from setbacks, and other corny self-help gems that happen to work. New in this revised second edition is a chapter on how to handle tough crowds, another on the speaking business (don't rule out getting paid to speak, argues Deaton - if it could happen to him, it can happen to you), chapters on each of his Three Commandments (surprisingly absent in the first edition), and a new YouTuber stretch assignment with an invitation to share a vid for friendly feedback. Read the reviews. Browse inside. See for yourself why this 2nd edition of Deaton's inviting how-to just might be the best public speaking book. But know that he expects application. If you're not up for reminders to stop reading and start doing, there are less demanding options available. This one isn't for spectators. It's for ambitious rookies with a seed of courage and the commitment to get better--the only two traits, argues Deaton, aspiring speakers need to succeed.
Supply Chain 20/20
In 2018 and 2019, I was blogging, email marketing, and publishing books regularly. My Amazon author ranking was rising each month. I was confidently on my way to joining the ranks of the Amanda Hockings and Mark Dawsons of this world, all while helping other authors accomplish the same.Then I was sucker punched in early 2020, along with so many others, when our governments announced a lockdown of all non-essential businesses. With my principal income at risk, I had to let my side hustle go. I stopped living and quickly switched to survival mode. Was I an essential employee at an essential business? So much of it was out of my hands, but I showed up every day to prove my worth. And I prayed every night.Only hindsight has been able to show me that 2020's worldwide wake-up call was actually a hidden gift we all needed to unwrap. It isn't about individual success online. If your local community is suffering, you'll never thrive in the long run. If any one link is broken, the whole supply chain suffers.Allow me to introduce you to a new and improved book supply chain that can help us all work more efficiently while earning both local and international profits simultaneously. We can protect ourselves by helping each other. In fact, we can thrive! Does that sound farfetched? Read this book, and you will see just how realistic it is. It already exists. Now we just have to utilize it effectively.
Book Publishing For Entrepreneurs
Writing a professional business book can give you instant credibility. It's surprisingly achievable with digital technology to reach a global audience with you words. Book Publishing for Entrepreneurs is the guide you need to help you through the arduous publishing journey. Book Publishing For Entrepreneurs takes the headache out of self-publishing. Karen Strauss clearly defines the process of publishing and lets you in on insider publishing secrets. You will learn publishing terms and what they mean like what is the difference between an editor, copy-editor, developmental editor, and proofreader. Book Publishing for Entrepreneurs is like having your own personal publishing consultant.
Indie Author Magazine Featuring Joseph Alexander
Once your manuscript is finished and ready for publication, it's time to put on your publisher's cap and format your book. For some, this part is worse than a double root canal, and can result in a flood of frustrated tears. But it doesn't have to. Formatting is a skill that can be mastered, or outsourced successfully and within the tightest budgets. ★ In this issue of Indie Author Magazine, you'll learn the top software tools the pros use to format manuscripts for every retail outlet, and how to use them, whether you're publishing your first or fiftieth novel. Read the three key formatting articles: ✓the Word On Formatting: Using The Most Popular App To Format Books✓ The Perfect Polish: Using Professional Apps Like Indesign And Affinity✓ Va-Va-Vellum: Fast, Polished Formatting That's Easy To UseYou'll also meet Joseph Alexander and read about his journey from musician, to author, to publisher and what that means for his future and the future of his company.Plus: Our sassy advice-giving aunt, ★ Indie Annie ★ shares sage advice for keeping up with writing during the holidays... From the Stacks: our formatting picks for indie authors.Praiseworthy Podcasts you need to bookmark and listen to every week.The technology tools the top-selling authors use -- plus video tutorials!What makes middle-grade readers delve into stories? Learn the tropes they treasure. Ways authors can authentically connect with readers at Author Signing Events.All you need to know about horses and the mistakes writers make.Ten Tips for YouTube: The second largest search engine authors often overlook.What key terms and technologies you need to know, when considering book formats
Land Without Sin
As revolutionary forces gather in the Lacandon jungle of southern Mexico in the fall of 1993, an idealistic American priest vanishes from his post in San Cristobal de Las Casas. The Church, immersed in trying to negotiate a peaceful solution to the escalating conflict between wealthy landowners and poverty-stricken indigenas, remains strangely silent in the face of his disappearance. When his sister, Eva, only thirty-four but already a hardened battlefield photojournalist, finds out what's going on, she flies to Central America to find him, taking a job assisting a taciturn Dutch Mayanist in order to provide herself with a cover. But as it turns out, he, too, is on a secret quest. From the great pyramids of Tikal and the graceful palaces of Palenque to the shadowy guerrilla camps of the vast Lacandon, A Land Without Sin is a modern-day journey into the heart of darkness.
Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies
The field of translation studies has grown rapidly over recent decades, with critical questions being investigated across the globe. Drawing together this scattered research, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies consolidates important propositions by drawing on systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Using the SFL dimensions of stratification, rank, axis and delicacy to show how languages are more similar or more different, this book provides a state-of-the-art critical assessment of the interaction between SFL and translation studies. Highlighting the major contribution SFL can make in developing translation theories, a team of world-leading experts investigate how intricate and wide-ranging translation questions, such as re-instantiation and multimodality, can be most efficiently explored through a detailed meaning- and function-oriented linguistic theory. Examining the theoretical concepts and practical applications of SFL in the translation of a range of languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies provides a stimulus for new work spanning the two fields and suggests new directions for future research.
Argue Like A Lawyer
Smart speaking reflects smart thinking.Argue like a Lawyer shows you how expert presenters identify issues before building and then presenting a persuasive argument that uses reasoning and evidence in support of their ideas, actions or theories.We all need to impress our listeners with the quality of our arguments, whether in formal presentations or pitches, during meetings, when handling complaints or simply answering a telephone call. We want to speak with confidence and competence but often put our foot in our mouth, fail to get across a simple message, or offend without meaning to. The good news is that we can all improve our reasoning.This book's three modules are full of practical techniques and strategies used to great effect by lawyers and other presenters. It shows you how to deliver a persuasive 'X factor' using rhetorical techniques. The content is straightforward and applicable and is supported by a wide range of helpful examples.When and wherever you speak you'll end up 'arguing' with ease and confidence: controlling the agenda, engaging your listeners and influencing outcomes.
Better Food for a Better World
Ideals and reality collide when six college friends band together to start an ice cream store, promising ""Better Food for a Better World,"" but finding a worse world than they had expected. It seems like a great idea: six friends from college pool their money and energy to start an ice cream store. Natural High Ice Cream: Better Food for a Better World. It's high-minded, with a wink, like the marital self-help group they all belong to. The store finds a ready clientele in its northern California college town filled with amiable ex-hippies who are happy to contribute to a better world, even if all they have to contribute is the price of an ice cream cone. But the store, like the marriage group, turns out to be work, not fun, and rifts start to appear between the friends. Nancy, who had seemed so easygoing and sweetly sexy when they started, turns stern. Cecilia, who had wanted to be a musician, is openly bored. And flighty, excitable Vivy is crawling out of her skin. She yearns for the old days, before Natural High, when she and her husband Sam traveled around the country with countercultural musicians and dancers. She'd give anything to have those days back again. And so quietly, without telling the partners, she starts to rev up the old company, contacting her old acts--the fat contortionist, the muscle-bound juggler. She's going to save them all, and Natural High, too. But saving turns out to be harder than it looks, and Vivy isn't the only one with secrets.
New Adult Fiction
The term 'new adult' was coined in 2009 by St Martin's Press, when they sought submissions for a contest for 'fiction similar to YA that can be published and marketed as adult - a sort of 'older YA' or 'new adult'.' However, the literary category that later emerged bore less resemblance to young adult fiction and instead became a sub-genre of another major popular genre: romance. This Element uses new adult fiction as a case study to explore how genres develop in the twenty-first-century literary marketplace. It traces new adult's evolution through three key stages in order to demonstrate the fluidity that characterises contemporary genres. It argues for greater consideration of paratextual factors in studies of genre. Using a genre worlds approach, it contends that in order to productively examine genre, we must consider industrial and social factors as well as texts.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Language Industry Studies
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues shaping the language industry, including translation, interpreting, machine translation, editing, terminology management, technology and accessibility. By exploring current and future research topics and methods, the Companion addresses language industry stakeholders, researchers, trainers and working professionals who are keen to know more about the dynamics of the language industry. Providing systematic coverage of a diverse range of translation and interpreting related topics and featuring an A to Z of key terms, The Bloomsbury Companion to Language Industry Studies examines how industry trends and technological advancement can optimize best practices in multilingual communication, language industry workspaces and training.
The Art and Craft of Asian Stories
An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to writing guide by drawing from a rich new trove of short stories beyond the western canon which readers may never have encountered before. Whilst still taking stock of the traditional elements of story such as character, viewpoint and setting, Xu and Hemley let these compelling stories speak for themselves to offer readers new ideas and approaches which could enrich their own creative work. Structured around the themes encountered in the stories, such as race and identity, history and power, family and aspirations, this text is a vital companion for writers at all levels keen to develop and find new perspectives on key elements of their craft. Written by two internationally successful writers and teachers, each chapter contains complete short stories and writing exercises for practice and inspiration.
The Spread of Print in Colonial India
This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. Till the first half of the century, much of the print production in the subcontinent emanated from presidency cities such as Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, along with centres of missionary production such as Serampore. But with the growing socialization of print and the entry of local entrepreneurs into the field, print began to spread from the metropole to the provinces, from large cities to mofussil towns. This Element will look at this phenomenon in eastern India, and survey how printing spread from Calcutta to centres such as Hooghly-Chinsurah, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Rangpur etc. The study will particularly consider the rise of periodicals and newspapers in the mofussil, and asses their contribution to a nascent public sphere.
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903-1943
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To show the contribution translations made to shaping an Italian national culture, it draws on a wealth of archival material made available in English for the first time.
Chasing Paper
Chasing Paper is an important new collection of essays written by senior publishers from around the world who have spent their careers in Christian publishing. Here they discuss the dramatic changes witnessed by the Christian publishing industry over the last fifty years, how they and their companies responded to those changes, and what the future may hold for the Christian publishing industry, authors, and readers everywhere. Find herein a rare glimpse behind the scenes into how some of the gate keepers of Christian culture have navigated quickly shifting cultural and professional realities.
