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NaNo November: How Familiar are you with Speculative Fiction?

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Of Ducks and Writing

Word count: 26,909

Here is a surveymonkey about what types of speculative fiction you consume… Fill out your response and see what other people have chosen…. If you’re thinking about what book to write next this could give you an idea of how big your potential audience is or might introduce you to genres you’ve never heard of.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s_thankyou.aspx?sm=0UvHfNiNiazkIxgh6zaOliLVnA7tqhOmf%2fbXBusW3Zw%3d

NaNo November: What Might Your Book Cost?

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Of Ducks and Writing

 

Word count: 22,000




How’s that Nano novel coming along? Here is a fun resource to calculate the cost of your book should you decide to self-publish. It also gets you thinking about the marketing/selling part of writing a novel. Will you decide to use Lulu or Createspace or another publishing conglomerate? What size book do you want? And so on….

calculate book publishing costs from Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/calculators/bookCalc.php?cid=publish_book