Rachael Ritchey

Author: Rachael Ritchey

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed: Copyrighting Your Work

    This is the fifth article in the series: How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing. Below is the list, including links to the subjects we’ve already covered. Today’s topic is Copyright. We’ll be focusing on US, though, because that’s where I live. It will be purely informational since copyright involves law, and I do not…

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed: Blurb & Author Bio

    This is the fourth article in the series: How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing. While I feel this is the most simple approach, you do not necessarily need to follow the steps exactly as we’ve laid them out. It is perfectly acceptable to handle each step in a different variation, whatever you find the…

  • The Importance of Color in Book Cover Design

    Earlier this week we talked about How Not to Get Overwhelmed: The Book Cover Design, and I felt like something was missing. Yesterday I listened in on a webinar hosted by Joseph Michael and featuring Mike Balmaceda that discussed making your book cover the best it can be to sell your story. That’s when it…

  • #BlogBattle 60 “Duplicitous” Entries & Voting

    Originally posted on BlogBattle: Hello! Welcome to the new Blog Battle! This is our first official week with the slightly altered rules and twice monthly story posting (there’s a calendar with all the dates on the rules page). We’ll call the next few months a testing phase to see if the new changes are worthy…

  • It’s All an Act #blogbattle #microfiction

    Here’s my Blog Battle #60 “Duplicitous” story! Genre: contemporary Hard, smooth, ridged, white, and tainted by the leathery smell of animal hide, I rub my fingers along the braided seams and wait for Coach to give the go ahead. A faint raindrop tickles at my nose and reminds me yet again of the stupidity of…

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed: Book Cover Design

    This is the third article in the series: How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing. Since there’s a lot that goes in to this process today we’re going to discuss something that falls during and/or after you’ve written your story, started acquiring beta readers, and let’s not forget retained editing assistance. If you are not…

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed: The Editing/Editor Consideration

    I hadn’t really planned to cover editing in the How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing series–except to say that as far as I’m concerned, editing is a must–but a question arose that I didn’t want to gloss over. Trust me when I say I know that editing can seem like a lofty, unattainable…

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing: Make Your Big Goal Manageable

    When we last discussed How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing we worked on setting a publishing goal, and today we’ll talk about the breakdown; we’ll get an idea of the separate parts which are easier to tackle. If you’ve decided to publish for more than yourself or a select few of your family members, then…