Look Out! New Trends in Self-Publishing

Written by Christopher Willitts


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An eBook may have even more features and benefits than a printed book: it may have sound, video and hyperlinks. An eBook can provide a richer experience to your reader. Ground-breaking concepts like this are empoweringrepparttar writing community like never before!

You can findrepparttar 129216 best self-publishing resourcesrepparttar 129217 internet has to offer at http://www.go-publish-yourself.com .

Christopher Willitts, Founder, Go Publish Yourself.com Address: P.O. Box 2031, Lewisburg, TN 37091, USA Email: christopher@go-publish-yourself.com Voice/Fax: 931.422.9906 ”Empowering Writers by Bringing Them intorepparttar 129218 Innovative World of Self-Publishing.”

Copyright © Christopher Willitts. All rights reserved. Please do not reprint or host on your website without explicit permission. However, if you found this report helpful, you’re granted permission, and strongly encouraged to e-mail it to a friend. Thank you.

Christopher Willitts, the young self-publishing entrepreneur, is the Founder of Go Publish Yourself.com and President of EnfoStream, Inc. His creative writing is in a class of its own and has won various awards throughout the years. For the latest resources and information on self-publishing, see http://www.go-publish-yourself.com


How to Preserve Your Family History by Writing Family Stories

Written by LeAnn R. Ralph


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• Use a tape recorder to recordrepparttar interview. Tapingrepparttar 129213 interview will help you gather details that you might miss if you are only taking notes.

• Chat about something else for a while ifrepparttar 129214 person you are interviewing seems nervous atrepparttar 129215 prospect of being tape-recorded. Your interviewee will soon relax and won't even noticerepparttar 129216 tape recorder. And once you startrepparttar 129217 interview, you will find that one subject will lead to another and one question will lead to another.

• Transcriberepparttar 129218 tape and write up your notes after you have finishedrepparttar 129219 interview. This, in itself, will provide a fine record ofrepparttar 129220 stories that are told "in their own words." And you will be in good company. Studs Terkel's oral history books are written that way, and they are fascinating to read. Terkel's books include Division Street (1967), Hard Times (1970), Working (1974), The Good War (1984), The Great Divide (1988), and RACE (1992).

• After you have finished all of your interviews and have written downrepparttar 129221 stories, printrepparttar 129222 stories from your computer and put them into a three-ring binder. Make multiple copies and give them to family members as gifts. Or you might want to consider publishingrepparttar 129223 stories POD (print-on-demand). There are many POD companies, and for a price that starts out at a couple of hundred dollars, you can publishrepparttar 129224 stories as a trade paperback. To find POD companies, conduct an Internet search withrepparttar 129225 keywords, "print-on-demand."

Here are some examples of questions to help you get started with your interviews:

Subject: school

1. Where did you go to school when you were growing up? 2. Tell me about any amusing or unusual incidents that happened on your way to or from school.

3. What kinds of clothes did you wear?

4. How many students were in your class? How many students were inrepparttar 129226 whole school? How many grades?

5. What was your favorite subject? Why?

6. What was your least-favorite subject? Why?

7. Who was your favorite teacher? Why?

8. Who was your least-favorite teacher? Why?

9. Tell me about your best friend.

10. Tell me about your happiest moments in school. What was your best accomplishment?

11. Tell me about your worst moments in school. Did you learn anything from your worst moments?

12. What advice would you give to students who are in school today?

LeAnn R. Ralph is a freelance writer for two newspapers in west central Wisconsin, is the editor of the Wisconsin Regional Writer (the quarterly publication of the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Assoc.) and is the author of the book, Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm), http://ruralroute2.com


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