These posts relate to the tools we are using to help our self-publishing efforts

How to use Sigil for selfpublishing your ebook

SIGIL The EPUB Editor Introduction SIGIL The EPUB Editor can help you achieve the worthy and satisfying goal to self-publish your ebook. SIGIL is a free editor that will create an EPUB file for your eBook. This post explains the benefits of creating an EPUB, identifies some the key features of SIGIL, provides details about [...]

Resources used to Prepare My First eBook

With my first eBook I wanted to write, format and publish it as quickly and as easily as I could. Apart from MS Word these are the resources I used to prepare my first eBook: How to Publish and Sell Your Article on the Kindle: 12 Tips for Short Documents by Kate Harper I used [...]

By |2019-08-01T09:20:17+10:00April 1st, 2013|Categories: The Tool Shed|0 Comments

Our eBook Workflow

Our eBook Workflow Introduction Our eBook workflow helps us research, prepare, format, and self publish travel articles as eBooks. It is a modest activity that started at the end of 2011 with our eBook on Barcelona. It is driven by enjoyment more than anything - I simply love the process and the technology of it [...]

By |2018-01-21T12:23:34+10:00January 18th, 2015|Categories: Self-publishing Blog, The Tool Shed|Tags: , |0 Comments

Using Mind Maps

To get straight to the point: I am a strong advocate of Mind Maps as a tool to discover meaning. I use Mind Maps to: analyse complex documents to seek meaning graphically depict an area of knowledge organise ideas from brainstorming sessions list and organise ideas in the writing process I first encountered the [...]

By |2018-01-19T09:14:45+10:00June 15th, 2014|Categories: The Tool Shed|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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