Author: Emily

Last week, I uploaded Somewhere and Nowhere to my printer’s website. If all goes well (and I’m really hoping I had everything formatted correctly), it should be here in a few weeks. My dad is already at work designing ads for his Facebook feed. I found this one particularly amusing: I’ll post again when the…

I’ve been tying up loose ends. After ten years, I finally revisited the notes I’d made for A Short Guide to Self-Publishing. Once I had a draft manuscript, created in Word using font styles to make it easy to publish as an ebook, I decided to redo my other short guides to make them all consistent in appearance. There were…

Okay, it’s not really a friend. It’s my original Two Blue Books website. I read that Google will be prioritizing mobile-friendly sites in its search results, and it was the final kick in the pants I needed to create a new site. A friend helped me build the site in 2006, before the popularity of…

I recently designed my second book, Somewhere and Nowhere, using Adobe InDesign for page layout. I took notes so that I’d have a guide to follow next time. I am sharing them in the hope that they might be useful to other self-publishers.

Well, November is over, and I did it: I wrote a 50,000 word novel! I first participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in 2014, when I wrote Intelligence, a new adult fiction novel that is still in the works. The goal of NaNoWriMo is simply to get a draft out, which will then be revised. It helps…

The final tasks are being completed for Somewhere and Nowhere. The pages are at the proofreader’s. I’ve picked a paper and cover stock at the printer’s, and calculated the width of the spine. And I’ve (mostly) finished the cover–you can see the current version at the right. Somewhere and Nowhere will be the same width…

While revamping this site, I came across this fun stuff; it was posted on my original website, ten years ago.

I’ve decided to switch from periodically updating a news page to posting on a news blog. It seems appropriate to start with a recap of the “news” leading up to 2016. I self-published Bread Science in 2006. I’ve been mailing books, teaching bread classes, and answering bakers’ emails ever since. In 2014, I produced the…

I’m simplifying my website today (September 18, 2017), and I’m removing links to articles and other work that just seems too old. I decided to create this back-dated blog post to archive the material. Farmer Profiles I interview farmers and other food producers and write profiles of them at my job at the co-op. Here…