Entries by Karina Fabian

Lack of Sleep = Lack of Blogging

There’s nothing like a night of no sleep to put life firmly “in the way” of my blogging and writing, let me tell ya! My answer to that this week was to put up a “out of office” post and just forgive myself…and try to appreciate the lack of screaming, thanks to the miracle of […]

A note from Karina Fabian about her worldbuilding class

People who read my blog know how bizarre my imagination gets, and how detailed and wild I can get in my worldbuilding. Even though I’m more of an intuitive, seat-of-the-pants kind of writer, I have broken down worldbuilding into several steps and I’m teaching them at savvyauthors.com September 5-October 3. I really stretched this class […]

Readability Tool Success and Mobile Posting Fail

First, something helpful… This came to mind when, during a class last week at the conference, someone mentioned reading level and being appropriate for your audience (specifically children in a certain age range). Did you know you can paste your text into an online tool that will test your document’s readability? Check it out here, […]

Babyspotting

I have a whole collection of pictures of the baby with a whole collection of cool Catholics who were at the Catholic Writers Conference Live and Catholic Marketing Network trade show last week. But… But my Official Photographer has misplaced her iPod Touch, which has all the great pictures on it. She’s 13 and was […]

To Blog or to Guest Post

Among the things that came up during the blogging panel of the Catholic Writers Conference Live last week was the subject of guest posting. One of my favorite authors shared with me after the session that she’s really struggling with blogging. She has REAL writing commitments, paying gigs. Blogging is a distraction, in many ways, […]

E-Books: The Future of Self-Publishing Part II

Last month’s post focused on the advantages of making your books available on Amazon Kindle. This month, I’m going to talk about the practical considerations, like e-book conversion, pricing etc. Some Practical Considerations Create a Quality BookIf your book has not been edited and polished, it will probably not gain a large audience. This is […]