Writer | Web Designer | Defenestrater
by Nace Phlaux
I sent out an email to my beta readers last night. To me, it came across as a friendly reminder that Coincidence is still there, waiting to be read and critiqued. Hopefully the fact that I’m an impatient, paranoid sufferer of the “imposter complex” didn’t come through too much. Two of the three writers acting …
by Nace Phlaux
I sent Coincidence to 4 individuals who volunteered to be beta readers. 3 are writers, two primarily fiction and one mainly poetry. If I recall the original email correctly, I said I simply ask if they like it, with the caveat that if they could not finish it, they tell me (for instance, if it …
by Nace Phlaux
I received a Kindle Fire from the future wife for Christmas, and the geek in me just loves it. I’m not usually an early adopter, not to mention this is far beyond our holiday spending limit, but…meh. However, due to the price, I’ve been trying to find (free) apps to justify the expense. I found …
by Nace Phlaux
I didn’t find this particularly useful in any way, but it amused me nevertheless. It’s a spreadsheet – days go along the x-axis, characters along the y-axis. Yellow blocks show when the characters appear, and red blocks show their death. A wiser writer than I might be able to interpret (or correct) the fact that …
by Nace Phlaux
Every How-To suggests meticulously checking over your file formatting before submitting anything for e-publishing, and yesterday I found one good example of why. The Kindle Previewer allows you to check out a .mobi file in various formats before sending it off, but I wonder how many have noticed that the Kindle For iPad version appears …
