Should I Narrate My Audiobook
Summary: This article looks at the pros and cons of narrating your own audiobook.

This article looks at the pros and cons of narrating your own audiobooks with a focus on voice, cost, and time.

Audiobooks

LibreWriter Setup
Summary: LibreOffice has excellent customization, so if you want to change the style of the program or the default templates, you can easily do that. This article walks you through changing the default styles, adding a grammar checker, and switching to the ribbon toolbar.

LibreOffice has excellent customization, so if you want to change the style of the program or the default templates, you can easily do that. This article walks you through changing the default styles, adding a grammar checker, and switching to the ribbon toolbar.

Tutorials

Preparing for Printing
Summary: This article will look at the output settings needed to produce a book for print.

This article and accompanying video will look at some considerations for getting your manuscript ready to go to the printer.

Distribution

Style Templates
Summary: This article shows you how to save your character, page, and other styles from one document and apply them to another so you can create beautiful interior styles in LibreOffice.

Learning how to save and apply template styles can save you a lot of time producing books for print.

Tutorials

Free ISBNs
Summary: This article talks about the pros and cons of using a free ISBN, where to get one, and where you can use that number.

It is possible to get a free ISBN for your book. Should you do it or not? Here we weigh the pros and cons.

Distribution

Typesetting
Summary: Typesetting starts with fomatting a book for the printer with page styles.

Typesetting is the art of converting a manuscript into the required format for printing a physical copy. Here we will get you started with Page Styles.

Tutorials

Vanity Press and Self Publishing
Summary: There is some confusion between Vanity Press and Self Publishing. This article will clear up the differences.

There is some confusion between Vanity Press and Self Publishing. This article will clear up the differences.

Distribution

Removing People from Images in GIMP
Summary: This article shows you how to edit people out of landscape scenery using multiple layers, alpha channels, the clone tool, and the healing brush.

In this article, we will show you how to edit people out of landscape scenery. We will use multiple layers, alpha channels, the clone tool, and the healing brush.

Tutorials

Finding Writing Topics
Summary: This article discusses where I find my ideas for fiction, non-fiction, and personal stories.

Today we will talk about where I find some ideas about what to write, and hopefully, you will find some ideas, too.

Writing Tips

Layer Masks in GIMP
Summary: In this Article, we look at subtle and not-so-subtle effects, how to fade an image into another, and how to fade a title into the background.

Layer Masking is a method for fine-tuning transparency in an image layer. This article and video discusses how to use Layer Masking in GIMP.

Tutorials
  1. Introducing Synaptergy
  2. Basic Editing Strategies
  3. eBook CSS for Clean eBook Builds
  4. Krita Overview