Printing a Book In Color vs Black and White

Adding pictures to the header of each episode was an idea that hit me out of the blue. I wanted to have a picture that would kind of speak to what the episode was about to share with the reader. This was an awesome thought, but an expensive one. To decrease the pages and the price of the book, I printed it in a 12 point font instead of the 14 point I usually use. This brought the book down to 202 pages, but it didn't bring down the price for color.

Her's my dilemma. If I print in color and use all the selling outlets, the cost for the 202 page book would be a whopping $30. If I only sold it on Amazon and my store, the cost would be in the ballpark of $15 as a base. For black and white the cost would be $3.27 as a base. Those prices don't include any markup for profit.

I thought I would share this with you just in case you were wondering about the cost of color printing.

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Take a look at the impact of color vs black and white.

Black and white Episode picture

Color Episode picture

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Novel Tips

Have you ever needed a quick link to a web page with a morsel of information that was front and center, like

jumping off the the tip of your tongue? It's hard to pull out the shovel and dig for a little piece of information that you want instantly. Welcome to Club Clickfast. I had so many links to web pages before my Mac developed the white screen of death. I can't complain. It was pretty old and had given me many years of loyalty. Now I am in the process of putting together links to web pages that have been quite helpful in my authoring journey once again. Feel free to share with a friend. I will re-share each time I make additions. Stay updated with helpful links by joining the mailing list.

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1. Character roles in a novel
2. How to add a link to an image
3. Building a psychotic criminal
4. Describing a character
5. Expressive words
6. Using descriptive words
7. Name generator
8. How to sell ebooks
9. Paragraph Basics
10. How to Create Memorable Characters
11. Punctuating with Quotation Marks
12. Dialogue: Punctuation, Capitalization, Spacing
13. Another Word Thesaurus online
14. Creating A Banner for Your Create Space Store

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Link A Writing Tip

Have you ever been in the midst of writing and just needed a quick reference to a writing rule or structure, or a punctuation? Here are some of my favorite pages for writing tips and other things.









Punctuating with Quotation Marks

Dialogue: Punctuation, Capitalization, Spacing

100 Mostly Small But Expressive Interjections

Writing Basics—The Paragraph

How to sell ebooks

The Descriptive Character

Another Word

How to add a link to a picture in Blogger

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Avoiding Mistakes With Characters

So, there I was happily writing my new book entitled at present, Mistake (I am toying with the idea of a new title). Somewhere near the middle of the book I noticed friends Beth and Lil had switched boyfriends. What a mistake. I now had to endure the task of combing the book for where the switch occurred and fixing each instance. What an undertaking that was.

I have a way of saving myself time and heartache by preventing this going forward. First of all I have invested in a character notebook. I prefer this over sticky notes. My sticky notes were falling off their designated home and landing on the floor over time with use. With the notebook, I have designated a page for each character, including minor characters because you never know when they will make a surprise visit.

At the top of the page is my character's name. The page is graced with physical attributes as well as emotional attributes. I also include tone and traits of the character such as whether the character is   serious, playful, a pessimist, an optimist and so on. I also include family relationships an friendships between the characters. After-all, my readers would have been confused wondering how Beth was now involved with Richard and Lil with Andrew or was Beth involved with Richard and Andrew? Who was involved with who? Now you see, don't leave the reader confused with a mistake. By the way you can meet Beth, Lil, Andrew and Richard in my new book MISTAKE, coming soon.

Now when I need to refer to a trait or a physical attribute later in the story, it is at my fingertips.

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Brigitta

Describing a Character for Your Novel

     I will admit that in my novellas, The HIM Series, there was not much character description. This was intentional as the goal was to have characters that a reader could mold in their fantasy as they read. In the beginning the characters were fashioned to fit any age group. I experimented with this concept. I gave the book to a woman over 60, a young woman in her early 20s, A woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s. Each person enjoyed book one. Each person had the same comments:

• I couldn't stop reading. I had to know what was going to happen next.
• How long was this woman going to let herself go through this?
•  He was something else.
• I could almost smell his cologne.

      It seems that although minimal descriptions were given, the readers had developed their own fantasy of what attributes each character possessed. Surprisingly, the women loved HIM. The one man who read the book enjoyed it but was quite put off by the portrayal of HIM.
      I have decided for the next book that is already in the making to build the characters for the readers. To build a character there needs to be more than just a physical description. The character needs a personality, a background. The personality may stem from the background. Maybe the character is withdrawn, shy or aggressive because of an event in their past.
     The character may be a happy one or maybe optimistic or pessimistic. Maybe the character is playful, seductive, outgoing or overbearing, never satisfied. If each character is given a complete personality from appearance to social status to quirks to tone of voice, your reader will more than likely know who is speaking the dialogue or who did what without being given the characters name, just as you would know which one of your family members made a particular comment or performed a certain action.
     So pull out the post it, index card or notebook and write a detailed description for each character. Give your character a physical description, a background, a voice. Give your character their own personality for the part they will play in the story.
     If you are interested in experiencing the story of HIM, read it online here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20820366-him?ac=1
Click the read book link. Enjoy.

 
 

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          HIM The Trilogy
     
     

          by Brigitta Moon
     

     

         
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