If you’ve got passion, a plan, and persistence, you don’t need an agent. The Indie Author Revolution: An Insider’s Guide to Self-Publishing is your friendly guide to the new era of self-publishing. Everything you need to create a quality book is within your reach, including editors, designers, printers, mentoring presses, e-books, and social media.

Written from the perspective of an editor who has mentored hundreds of indie authors, The Indie Author Revolution will teach you:

• All the key areas of self-publishing success–from vetting your manuscript ideas to crafting your publishing plan for both print and electronic books.
• Advice, tips, and tools from real-life indie authors and book publishing professionals to help you avoid missteps in writing, publishing, and marketing.
• The pros and cons of doing it yourself, working with an indie press, and everything between.

April Michelle Davis spent several weeks writing the index for this book. While computers and software programs can write a concordance, only trained individuals can write an index. April Michelle, a trained indexer, will read the page proofs of the publication and write an alphabetical list of references based on the terms and concepts explored in the text. April Michelle will select, group, and consolidate page references under main headings and subheadings, and write cross-references to guide the readers to specific information.

 

After her father’s death on a mountain rescue mission, Kaylie Ames watched her family shatter. In The Holder’s Dominion, she fled Tacoma for college in faraway Austin, figuring that even the worst campus drama would be a relief. But when her old friend Elliott turns up on his knees in the grocery store aisle, raving about something called a morphis, Kaylie feels compelled to enter Elliott’s unfamiliar world.

Guided by Elliott and his friends, Kaylie signs on to the massively popular online game Edannair. There she discovers a world of beautiful vistas and magical creatures, where people from all over the globe step into the roles of warriors on fantastical quests. But a real-world evil threatens the players: the mysterious Holder, leader of the elite team known as Sarkmarr, is coercing his followers into traumatic offline dares known as “morphis assignments.” To save her friends, Kaylie must infiltrate Sarkmarr and survive the Holder’s tests.

Will she find the courage there to hold her real-world family together?

April Michelle Davis spent several weeks proofreading this manuscript. This is usually performed on a manuscript that has already been through developmental or copyediting and has already been laid out by a designer into page proofs. It provides a last review of egregious errors, such as basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and inconsistencies, and any other errors that were inserted during the design process.

From the early days of the Minnesota lumber industry comes Mike Stoesz’s Walter Meets Mack, a historically accurate young adult novel of growth and discovery. At a time of immigration and change, a young Finnish boy named Walter “Mack” Myllamaki will embrace his past while looking to the future. From the hustle-bustle city of Minneapolis to the wild country of Minnesota’s dense forests, Mack must keep his wits about him if he is to survive in a world where nothing–well, almost nothing–is as it seems.

April Michelle Davis was selected to proofread this manuscript in the weeks before printing. April Michelle has been a professional proofreader for over 20 years, and her experience has been proven invaluable in correcting egregious errors in grammar and spelling. As a proofreader, April Michelle aligns her goal with that of the author’s: to ensure a pleasurable experience for readers.

Join The Land columnist Susan Peterson Johnson on a journey through personal and spiritual trials. In this compilation of spiritual articles originally published in The Land magazine, Susan dares to openly and honestly share the experiences of family life on a farm, adoption, nursing a soul mate through an accelerated case of Alzheimer’s, and finding the strength to love again. The Yield, a heartfelt memoir, will inspire readers to consider their own strength, resilience, and moments of transformation and will hopefully leave them with the belief that in life’s journey, love truly does conquer all. April Michelle Davis was selected to perform the final step in the editing process before this manuscript went to print. A responsibility some professionals would not want to accept, yet April Michelle took on this task knowing the author and publisher depended on her expertise in this area. April Michelle proofread this book in PDF format and reviewed the pages for errors in type as well as in design.