Rachael Ritchey

Category: Author & Blogger How To

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 7 Ways Blogging Makes You a Better Creative Writer

    Reblog from I Came for the Soup with Candice Coates! Escapades of an Indie Author & Publisher by Rachael Ritchey: 7 Ways Blogging Makes You a Better Creative Writer Excerpt: First off, I gotta say thanks to Candice for this chance to share on her blog! It’s not every day I get the opportunity, and she…

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing

    In the indie publishing world it doesn’t take much to feel overwhelmed, and for some this means giving up before ever truly starting. It doesn’t matter if you’ve barely written a page of your book or have finished it (even going so far as to have it edited and uploaded to your preferred publishing avenue),…

  • Beta What? Why Indie Authors Don’t Exist in a Vacuum

    As a writer, just starting out and afraid to tell anyone I was writing, I couldn’t imagine having anyone look at the title let alone the very essence of the story I had so painstakingly laid upon the altar of paper. I could have easily been living in a vacuum of space, a gap in…

  • How to Add a Category to Your Menu on WP

    I know there are so many different and fun things to do to make your blog/website amazing on WordPress and one thing that’s super helpful is if you have certain Categories (e.g. “Blog Battle” or “My Stories” or “Author Advice” or whatever). See, I’ve categorized this post as “Author & Blogger How To” because it…