I finally plucked up the courage to turn on Text-to-Speech on my kindle. (Press the Aa button and select from the pop-up menu). What I got was a male robot voice taking exaggerated pauses at each comma, but no pauses for emdashes or between speech and attribution, between pieces of unattributed speech, or even between chapters! Here’s […]
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Why Self-publish? A Primer
I won’t go into this subject too deeply as it’s been covered in excruciating detail elsewhere. Consider this a quick introduction. Amongst aspiring authors there are two main camps: those that believe in the traditional route to publication and those that prefer the “indie” route. The Traditional Route: Choose a genre, write a book, have […]
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