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How to Turn a Picture into a Book Cover (How I did)

Rich Barrett who illustrated the cover of Tamela Rich's new book "Hit the Road"
Four Octobers ago, in the mountains of West Virginia, my friend Jill took this photo of me. It remains one of my favorite shots—as a photo, and as a memento of a gorgeous day with a dear friend. When I wrote my new book, Hit The Road: A Woman’s Guide to Solo Motorcycle Touring, I […]
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Posted on January 1, 2018
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Resolved to Write a Book?

the Google Play Books logo
Within the last week of 2011 over  four million Android devices were activated.  What does this mean to the business professional who has been waiting to write a book? You'd better get with it.
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Posted on January 8, 2012
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Distribution: Self-Publishing’s Final Hurdle

hand holding up Action Hero's Handbook
The last step in the self-publishing process is getting the book into the reader's hands (or reading device). I'm not talking about marketing in this post (I'll talk about that later); I'm talking about dead-tree distribution here because that's how I published Live Full Throttle, for reasons I outlined earlier in this series.
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Tamela M. Rich
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Posted on November 18, 2011
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Hardback or Softcover for your Self-Published Book?

Cover of my book, "Live Full Throttle"
When you're publishing your own work, you're taking on all the departmental responsibilities of a publisher: editing, design, printing, financing, distributing and marketing. Unless you're publishing an e-book you'll have to choose a book binding.* Deciding between hardback and softcover lies at the intersection of finance and marketing.
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Posted on October 25, 2011
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Self-Publishing: Book Prototype for Publicity and Advance Sales

So far we've talked about the need to hire a book designer and editor. I took the step of developing a prototype for Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons From Friends Who Faced Cancer.  Mine is in a PDF and included the cover, introduction and first chapter, but you could include less. You'll see that I used the Flash capabilities of Scribd to embed it here.
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Posted on October 11, 2011