Latest podcast episode: The technical and business details of self-publishing "It Depends"

Covers the full stack: WordPress → Word → Amazon KDP + Ingram Spark, using ChatGPT for indexing, home audiobook recording setup, and the real economics.

Why self-publish vs traditional? What tools actually work? How much do you really make?

A case study in DIY business building that applies beyond books.

https://pod.link/1724860326

Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.

From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.

I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.

#WritingCommunity
#NoteTaking
#PKM
#Zettelkasten
#BookWriting
#SlowWriting https://writingslowly.com/2025/06/18/what-i-learned-from-bob.html

This is Apheia, who came in the cabin and kept me company during my recent writing retreat. #writing #dogs #downwarddog #dosofmastodon #amwriting #writer #bookwriting

What do you think of the contents so far of my Book.

From just this brief look what do you think is missing, what do you think needs more than a page or so that is already has?

#Book #Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #BookWriting #WritingABook #Fedi #FediBook

@sam@sam@bikersgo.social is working on a book about the Fediverse. Check out what she has to say about her first 10,000 words

https://articles.vex.blue/the-first-10k-words/

#Article #Fediverse #FediverseBook #Fedi #Book #BookWriting #Author

Collecting Book Ideas in Obsidian
About once a month I'll write a blog post and the idea will stick with me for a day or two. The most recent time this happened was with the post We Own Nothing - The Broken Promise of the Information Age, I think that idea has legs to it.

I have a personal story there, Apple won't let you watch a movie you already purchased if anything
https://curtismchale.ca/2023/11/13/collecting-book-ideas-in-obsidian/
#PKM #BookWriting #Longform #Obsidian #writing

How I never thought to ask this here before I don’t know

Authors / SMEs: can you please recommend freelancers and/or small agencies you’ve worked with for marketing management and PR / publicity?

Especially if they’ve been helpful for you as a shy introvert who struggles with RSD and for whom even asking this question makes you want to hide the manuscript in a drawer and retire to a blanket fort instead? Because that would be the bullseye.

I was prepping a LinkedIn post for work yesterday and asked #ChatGPT for help with a novel alternative to the phrase “molasses in January” to describe the feeling of trying to finish writing a book. And while I am fundamentally opposed to outsourcing writing to a large language model I have to admit

the robot nailed the assignment

Proud and Grateful to receive my author copies today of my #PHP8 Basics book! Thank you to Apress for giving me the opportunity to share my passion for development with the world!

Obligatory Amazon link: https://a.co/d/bJGgxqm

#webdevelopment #developer #bookwriting #docker

I have a strong premise, a detailed outline, and 70 pages of notes. At what point do I pitch this as a book?

I have polished blog posts for scattered subsections, but I don't have well-formed writing for the most important, foundational chapter of the book. I think I need that.

At what point does someone club me on the head and explain how I'm wildly overestimating or underestimating my current state?

If you’re mired in the book writing process and considering giving up, consider:

Exporting your manuscript into an e-reader format, and putting it on a device other than your computer to read / review.

Reading on the computer is too close to writing and all I see is the book’s problems and my anxiety about what’s not written yet (creator brain)

Printing to paper puts my mind in a copyediting state and I can’t see the big picture (critical brain)

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How to write a book???

Yesterday I met a friend and they were the third one in a row to suggest writing a book. It was when I told them about my primary school friends, who somehow appear again in my life, one after another. They said: "actually, I would love to see a series about what you experience... but maybe you should start with a book".

But I have never written a book before. I know how to blog, how to tweet, toot... I love writing.

Where to start? Pls help!
#book #bookwriting

Me, when my Filipina friend is writing her novel at #Wattpad and one of her main characters is inspired by me, but he is gay and lives with a man. WTF.
#Writers #Writing #WritingNovels #BookWriters #BookWriting #Books #Funny #LOL

Ok... being brokenhearted now won't avoid me to start my journey to #writing. Planning to write a #horrorstory... maybe...
#BookWriting #Writers

At 166 A4 pages, 3 published libraries and 6 ASDF systems in total, my upcoming book, Common Lisp Condition System, has reached its first beta version.

I am looking for reviewers for the current version of the text; it won't change much from now on, other than for review remarks.

The things required for me releasing it publicly are reviewing the text, re-testing all the code stored in it, creating a GitHub repository for the code stored in it, and creating the reference for the standard symbols/functions/macros/variables of the condition system.

#Lisp #CommonLisp #Programming @lisp #Bookwriting #Writing