Figuring out what you want to publish affects several steps of self-publishing AND affects your launch schedule!

An index page for various steps Dawn Patrol Publishing makes in self-publishing books.

What is an ISBN and where do you get them in Canada or the United States.

Long before your book is published, this needs to be done!

When I first started writing, I used Google Docs—it had pretty much all the same features as any other major word processing software, but it was free and it was stored in the cloud. It works great for poetry, short stories and even some medium-length works, and I was able to work from anywhere. However, by the time I was twenty chapters into my debut novel, it was getting unwieldy. I did some research and found a few suggestions about breaking my manuscript down into chapter

Simple typos in important places will taint your brand and cost you sales!

A Block Distraction Project, or BDP as Kevin calls it, is his way of dealing with what some writers refer to as Writer's Block. This can be a devastating event for some writers, while others don't believe it even exists. It could be the way he writes or the fact that he serially-publishes most of it, but from time to time he finds that his characters stray from their plotted path and cause him to write himself into a corner. When this happens, he simply switches to another

It’s all about branding and centralization! A domain and website in your name provides a common point that can follow you along your writing career, Almost every politician, actress, actor, musician, artist and author has a website in their own name! Shouldn’t you have one too? Social media is a necessary evil in the popularity and promotions game, but there is a growing segment of the population that goes out of their way to avoid using social media, which sadly has devolve

I found a new writers' guild kind of by accident today. This guy named Howard posted an ad for an upcoming meeting featuring Fauzia Burke...

I was talking with another new author recently and we got on to the topic of what we use in writing our books. So here’s a breakdown of my writing resources, for anyone curious about the process. My most important writing resources are my imagination… after all, it creates the stories! Followed second in importance by the patrons that support me , paying as little as $1 for advance access to everything I write, and third is the thousands of beta readers that read the rou