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Self publishing is an increasingly popular route for poets and writers, and a route that is gaining success. Nostrovia! Poetry offers some help for those trying to found their way among the snares of the self publishing process.

Publishing tip

As hard as this is, try to not get emotionally involved with your authors and content creators.  Especially poets.  The really great ones can really turn your guts inside out with a simple line break.

Keeping some emotional distance will help you look at what you’re doing objectively.  Though, I’ll admit, sometimes this is difficult to do.  I’ve fallen into this time and time again, being swayed by one poet or another.

What’s something you wish you knew when you started your publishing press?  If you’re a self-publisher, what do you wish you knew when you first began?

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by Jeremiah Walton on March 26, 2013  •  Permalink
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2 Tips For Writing SEO Optimized Articles

Working as an author, especially a self-published one, requires being a jack-of-all-trades.  You need to be able to promote, manage a website (which incorporates a lot in itself, i.e. design, seo, etc), write, establish connections, and the list goes on and on.

Articles are a great way to connect with readers and promote your writing.  They’re also handy for establishing yourself as an expert in a particular field, and optimize your websites find-ability.   Articles can be used to provide links to your site, increasing its SEO value in the eyes of King Google.  If you don’t know what SEO is, here’s a handy article giving a basic explanation.

As a general premise for articles, Google loves articles 300-500 words long, a minimum of 250-300.

Keyword Saturation:

For every 100 words, mention your keyword 3-5 times.  Doing so subtly to avoid breaking readability takes time, but it will improve your articles ranking in Google. Over doing it and stuffing your blog posts with keywords will actually shoot your page ranking down the drain.  Try using the same words or exact phrases people will search.

Grammar:

Keywords should be grammatically correct with their usage.  Incorrectly using keywords and jamming them everywhere possible will annoy both readers and search engines.  Articles should read well, provide information with the least amount of marketing pitches for your book, website, etc, and focus more on providing good content for readers.  Sound natural, talk as you would to one of your friends.

 

Hope this helps guys.  Cheers!

-Jeremiah Walton

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by Jeremiah Walton on February 26, 2013  •  Permalink
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10 Useful Blogs for Self-Publishers

In no particular order, here are some useful blogs for publishers, indie authors, and writers in general.  There is a vast array of topics covered here, but all are relevant to the self-publishing author.

30 Day Books

This blog is top notch for the aspiring author.  It provides information ranging from making the most of your book signing, to marketing, to book binding.

Book Making Blog

The title says it all.  I’ve used this particular blog while learning to produce books.

The Creative Penn

The Creative Penn helps you grow as a writer, how to write press releases, and other topics that arch over the theme of “self-publishing”.  What I like about this blog is that it offers tips on the actually writing process, and not just publishing.

The Future of Ink

The Future of Ink deals specifically with online publishing.  This is personally one of my favorites.

The Book Deal:  An Inside View of Publishing

Alan Rinzler’s blog discussing the always-evolving publishing industry.

A Newbies Guide To Publishing

Joe Konrath, a self-published writer, shares his experiences and what he’s learned over his years of publishing.

Marketing Tips For Authors

This is an aspect of self-publishing many talented poets and writers we haven’t heard of (there’s a reason we haven’t heard of them) neglect.  Don’t think that if you’re being traditionally published you won’t need this information though.  If you don’t learn to market your work, chances are you’ll be washed away in the tide of books published each year.  Marketing is an important step for all writers venturing into publishing.

BiblioCrunch

This blog provides solid information on the publishing process, and gives some great ideas on how to get your writing career started.

Self Publishing Review

This site gives you news of the self publishing world, and provides a social network for self-publishing writers and potential readers to connect.

The Book Designer

And a bonus number 11…

DIY Book Creation

This is not a blog, but extremely useful.  The article provided displays a comprehensive list for self-publishers when it comes to getting your book made.  It explains multiple ways how you can do it yourself, or higher someone to.  The DIY method is time consuming, but cheap, and the best part is that you are in complete control of how your book looks as a final product.

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by Jeremiah Walton on February 22, 2013  •  Permalink
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Nostrovia! Poetry’s List of Publishing Resources For Writers and Publishers

The Big List - A list published on Lit Submit’s website that encompasses a large variety of publishing opportunities.  Here is another one of their lists that provides a large amount of paying publishing options.

Baby Names:  Need some names for your characters?

Author’s Guide To Goodreads:  Goodreads is a powerful resource for promoting an author.  Here’s a link explaining how to do so without annoying others and promoting your writing in a manner that will certainly draw readers.  I followed the advice, and deeply benefited.

DIY Publishing:  A website dedicated to small presses and DIY publishers, including those creating zines and their own chapbooks.  It will show you how to create your own chapbooks and other useful aspects of DIY publishing, or in other words, self publishing.

Read a longer list of aspiring writers and publisher’s resources at Nostrovai! Poetry’s Publishing Resources page

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by Jeremiah Walton on December 27, 2012  •  Permalink
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LSD Giggles has been received with open arms by numerous readers, and despised by just as many

“‘LSD Giggles’ is the epitome of trippy, but also mysticism. There is so much philosophy packed in this small collection. If you wish to bend the reality you once knew, then definitely read this ebook! Prepare to be mind-blown, or get blown over completely by the powerful words.” - Eva Xanthopoulos

 

I’ve published a collection of poems titled LSD Giggles through Nostrovia! Poetry, and the collection has been loved and hated.  I have received people many people stereotyping me, as an individual, as a “drug-addled 17 year old”, and a “Beat wanna-be clone with no originality”.  I take these words with consideration, and understand why, due to the content of the collection, I would be labeled as such.  The collection does focus on psychedelics, both the positive and negative affects.  Psychedelics are something that can be wonderful and dangerous.  They can provide and take away.  I have an understanding regarding this, and do not go around telling everyone to go “drop a tab” or “inhale some shrooms”.  They’re not for everyone, and the experiences I had are simply a phase that has passed through.  I learned a lot, and took away a new perspective.  This does not happen to everyone, and it comes down to the individual, their personnel history, and the setting the drug is ingested in.  I do not encourage or discourage.  These poems represent more than the face value of “giggles produced under the influence of LSD”.  I hope you take the time to read them, rip into them and criticize, and love or hate them.  The fact it riles a form of emotion is enough for me.  Read this with an open mind.  Enjoy!

The collection is available free through Nostrovia! Poetry, Goodreads, and Scribd.

-Jeremiah Walton

 

LSD Giggles

Electrified, grinned, bucked pearls sizzle

LSD’s grin, potential philosopher’s grin

Expand eternally philosopher!

Great pioneer of Earthly Heavens and Hells!

Drink of the nectar of life!

Boiling between gum and cheek

Great gulps of what… Sanity?

Insanity?

We’re not lost

We exist

Loving and sewing

Seeds

Along the path we walk leading… where?

To dissolve… dissolve… dissolve

Diving into the breathing cosmos of Self!

Expanding Self loving Self Self centered

We are the Sun of our perception

Living finite in the infinite Now

Now!  Now!  Poet, you always speak of Now!

Now is our eternal joy! eternal destruction!

Devoured hungrily by mathematical patterns

I can hear color!  grooves on every note

Slaughtering the finite brain to create…

infinity?

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by Jeremiah Walton on December 24, 2012  •  Permalink
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Great promotion idea; free pocket-sized poetry collections with your web address on the back/front cover

Do you need help locally promoting your poetry?  Here’s an idea I’ve been using that’s been working well; pocket-sized poetry collections.  It takes twenty minutes to set up the Microsoft Word file to format them, and only a minute to fold one.  I’ve folded hundreds and distributed them free, and seen a surge in the amount of traffic my website and blogs experience regularly.

Modus Operandi is a collection of poems  I released as a pocket-sized poetry collection.  I initially distributing the collection at an open mic, but as the short collection gained some popularity, I released it as a non-profit ebook available through Nostrovia! Poetry.  You can hand such collections out free, including your name and web address in the little booklet, and reap the benefits.

How To Format A Pocket-Sized Poetry Collection and How To Fold A Pocket-Sized Poetry Collection are two articles that explain how to create a collection similar to Modus Operandi.  Make note of this though, the collection is made of one sheet of paper, and is therefor short.  But that’s what makes it so useful.  It’s not a full chapbook, so it doesn’t take too long to produce, especially if you’re hand pressing your work, and it’s easy to carry around and give away.   I’ve been setting up outside small book stores and local supportive businesses to with a table that has two crates full of them.  One crate contains a large quantity of Modus Operandi, and the other a collection simply titled “A Three Poem Collection“, that is only available locally.  Get creative in how you distribute them.  Ask local bookstores if you can leave a box of them by the exit for people to take on their way out, or place them in ideal locations along the streets for people to pick up.

This is only one creative way to distribute your work though.  What are some techniques you’ve employed to creatively get your name and writing around?  Cheers!

-Jeremiah Walton

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by Jeremiah Walton on December 20, 2012  •  Permalink
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LSD Giggles, a new psychedelic collection of poetry

LSD Giggles is available free and for purchase through Amazon.  It is a collection regarding psychedelics, the good and bad trip, the exploration of consciousness, and various other themes that pass through under our noses, until one day their wide open and the wood work is breathing, though through dedication, time, and practice, you can experience a similar, and legal, feeling.

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by Jeremiah Walton on December 5, 2012  •  Permalink
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Know Your Writing Rights As An Author

Courtesy of The Creepy Blog, a post was made explaining what rights you as an author have over your writings.  It’s important that all writer’s understand the writes they have and what you are signing onto once you agree to a publishing contract.  This is something I HIGHLY recommend all authors look into.  Cheers! – Jeremiah Walton

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by Jeremiah Walton on November 11, 2012  •  Permalink
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To Your Health: Humanity’s Diagnosis

“To Your Health: Humanity’s Diagnosis is like a fist of poems from Jeremiah Walton. The book is abuzz with words that the author uses like bullets and most of the time they hit their target. There’s the fury of youth in these writings and I look forward to what comes next. Poetry doesn’t have to be dull and Walton proves it with his book.”  

-Damien Green

Soulful

by Jeremiah Walton

An Excerpt From To Your Health: Humanity’s Diagnosis,

a non-profit, free ebook

The Opiate Souls pop open orange bottles as if peeking through The Door to God and observing the celebration of Himself and the prison of reality

The Door creaks opens only to trap curious junkies, try to take your eyes away!

The Hungry Souls groan overfed but still lick the dark roofs of their mouths in anticipation of the next meal

The Alcoholic Souls plunge their tongues in drinks, blindly looking for the glass’s bottom

The Poetry Souls crunch small chips of prose together claiming creativity and divine unity

The Suited Souls play gold violin strings singing Holy Hymns of income

The Emaciated Souls rub dirty finger tips together imagining violins

The Watered Souls bloom spiritually, not desiring question of where the water comes from

The Dry Souls question and seek answer, where does the water come from?  who desires to soak life into our roots?

The New England Souls bucket foliage to sell to Southern Souls

And the Southern Souls ceram wrap tobacco to sell to the New England Souls

The Traveling Souls exchange stories for drinks in bars

The Platonic Souls bath in the river naked but do not touch each other

The Door Hinge Souls creak and God’s eyes are on us

If you enjoyed this fellow writers, share your love by Sharing the poem around.  Here’s the link to the page at Nostrovia! Poetry.  Thank you.  Cheers!  - Jeremiah Walton

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by Jeremiah Walton on November 9, 2012  •  Permalink
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“Learning How To Commission Illustration”

Learning How To Commission Illustration, an article featured at Exit Within: the Gallegos Blog.   This is worth checking out for writers who want to incorporate art into their work.

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by Jeremiah Walton on November 1, 2012  •  Permalink
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