As a writer who works from home (WFH), your biggest assets are your computer and Internet. But when it’s time to print pages — yes, there are still necessary times to print! — you’ll need a good printer. Here, we provide our favorite printers that we use as writers working from home. Besides, the printers …
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Self-Publishing on the Reedsy Book Editor: An Overview
Whether you have a fantastic idea for a book or you’ve already created a rough draft, if you’re interested in publishing a book that you want to share with the world, you’re going to have to figure out how to self-publish your book. Writing a story is one thing, but turning that story into a …
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Hacks for Writing A Book
Books are magical works of art that can transport you from your everyday life into a whole new realm. As magical as they may be, however, sadly they don’t write themselves. Unlike technical papers or academic writing, creating a book takes a huge personal investment. There is much more to writing a book than sitting …
How to find literary agents
Writing a book is hard, and after laboring for what is often years to get your story completed, running the gauntlet for publishing can be demoralizing. Instead of approaching a publishing house directly or even sending your book to every publishing house on the planet, work with a literary agent to increase your chance of …
When Are You Ready to Start Looking for a Literary Agent?
You’re working on a book and, after insane amounts of introspection, you’ve decided that you would like to go the traditional publishing route. To get your book published on terms that actually work in your favor, you know that you will need to partner with a literary agent. Literary agents can’t just land you the …
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Standard Book Sizes: Mass-Market Paperbacks
One of the book terms that you may have heard of if you are interested in or have studied the publishing industry is the mass-market paperback. Most people are familiar with paperbacks, having read plenty of them, but there are two different types of paperbacks out there. The first is the trade paperback. Trade paperbacks …
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How Pricing Works with Kindle Direct Publishing
If you are publishing with the Kindle Direct Publishing Platform, then there are four basic pricing models that you are going to want to be aware of. You have a great deal of power over what you set your price at when you use this platform, but the way that you come to decide upon …
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What’s The Best Fandom For Fanfiction And How To Choose It?
Chances are you have already completed this first step and chosen a fandom. Or rather, your fandom has chosen you. It has been my experience that story ideas come to you while you watch or read something, or not long after. Your brain finds a hole in the original story. That hole does not have …
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