Podcasting is something that has always fascinated me. I had the pleasure of meeting author and podcaster Emerian Rich at this year’s Santa Rosa book festival. She was kind enough to write a guest post AND complete an interview – both about podcasting! I’ll be posting them over the next few weeks. Please enjoy! Here [...]
Category: Publishing
“Warming Demon” ~ Evolution of an E-book Cover
Here is the cover for my forthcoming free e-book, Warming Demon. It was created by artist Joey Manfre. I had a lot of fun working on this cover with Joey. As usual, I gave him a rough idea of what I was looking for: target audience (adult), central theme of story (Warming Demon as [...]
Press Release: Raggedy Chan Sequel Now Available – Get Your Free Review Copy!
Raggedy Chan Sequel Now Available – Get Your Free Review Copy! September 26, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Camille Picott Email: camille.picott@gmail.com Nine-Tail Fox: a Chinese Heritage Tale is available now! Nine-Tail Fox, the sequel to Raggedy Chan, is now available! In this modern Chinese fable, Chinese-American author Camille Picott draws on her [...]
Saving Money by Building Your Own Book Block with Microsoft Word
Even though e-books are the way of the future, there are still a lot of people who read regular print books. Just taking stock of people I know, only a few of them have e-readers; most are still reading print books. I decided that if I was going to go through the work to prep [...]
6 Ways to Maximize Your Presence on Amazon
There are a lot of free and almost-free ways to increase your presence on Amazon. I spent the last few days maximizing the presence of the Raggedy Chan print edition. Here’s what I did: