Author Dana Reynolds will discuss how to design, create, and publish a book on CreateSpace and Kindle while avoiding the hundreds of dollars of fees for the various services offered by CreateSpace. Reynolds, who has published four books on Kindle, will share her secrets and guide attendees through the process.
A hands-on workshop, participants will leave with their book, draft, or a minibook uploaded to Kindle and available to the public or only to them.
The workshop will be held at the Village Writing School, 177 Huntsville Road in Eureka Springs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m on November 7. Cost for the all-day workshop is $45. Speculative fiction and New Age inspirational author Dana Reynolds has written five books about journeys of the heart that lead to alternate dimensions of consciousness. She currently lives in the Arkansas Ozarks with her family on a small farm and helps her husband raise heritage livestock while holding a day job where she's an under-cover art-school hippie making a living in corporate communications and IT.
Jessie will make chili, cornbread and salad this Thursday.
We will check in on our goals and progress and discuss what workshops and events you'd like to see this winter.
Come give us your input!
Visitors Welcome
Gail Pierce Larimer
Before and After
We’ve all seen them: “Before and After” advertisements. Side-by-side are photographs of a 350–pound woman magically transformed after only six weeks of drinking Slim-O into a 120-pound beauty queen.
Sorry, I can’t advise you on weight loss, but I can discuss guidelines for what comes before and what goes after your manuscript.
Before:
The difference between a foreword and a preface is that a foreword (never forward!) is a commentary written by someone other than the author.
A preface is an introductory piece written by the author. The preface may include the reasons that inspired the author to write the book, information on how the author did his or her research, and acknowledgments. If the acknowledgments are extensive, they should be included in a separate acknowledgements section, following the preface.
According to CMS, a prologue or introduction that is integral to the manuscript is not a “before” element. Rather, it is considered a part of the main text and, as such, should carry arabic page numbers and directly precede the manuscript’s chapters. It should be much shorter in length than a regular chapter.
After:
Concluding elements are written by the author and include epilogues, afterwords and conclusions. The epilogue and the afterword are brief remarks that sometimes are included at the end of a book. These are not designated by chapter numbers.
Of course, there’s a lot more to what comes before and what goes after your published manuscript. The dedication, epigraph, table of contents, glossary, index and appendix are just a few of the possibilities. For a fuller discussion of the preparation and placement of these elements, be sure to consult The Chicago Manual of Style.
CMS Front Matter, Paragraphs 1.16-1.56, Back Matter, Paragraphs 1.57-1.65 and Text Divisions, Paragraph 1.46.
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The Featured Author for Saturday, November 14th, 2015 is Kathleen Everett, Ozark Writer and Poet, Author of the book, The Course of Our Seasons.
Kathleen and her husband live on Table Rock Lake in the Missouri Ozarks near Branson, MO. Currently, Kathleen is working on a new book of poetry, The Last Really Good Shack – A Memoirand a new book of fiction based in the Ozarks.
Storytellers is an organization that Celebrates the Art of Storytelling. Our conference brings together people who love to
tell stories to network, share knowledge, and celebrate success.
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