Nonfiction Ebooks Provide that Something Extra

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

L.C., founder of eFrog Press, hosts the Take the Leap blog and regularly blogs about all things ebook!

A Sensible Lady: A Tradtional Regency RomanceIt has been a busy spring at eFrog Press. While we began the year with fiction titles, our most recent projects have been nonfiction. What an adventure! We love to work with fiction authors on developing plot, characters, dialogue, and concrete details. Our copy editors work diligently to ensure each author’s voice shines through loud and strong while preventing grammar and usage issues from interfering with a reader’s escape into the story. As testament to our success, Judith Lown’s A Sensible Lady received this Amazon reader review by M.H. posted on May 9 and excerpted here:

Happily, the story unfolds through action and naturally flowing dialogue rather than by “telling” the reader what is happening. The author apparently had an editor who insisted on grammatical and spelling checks prior to publication which is very welcome.

But I digress. Nonfiction has provided new joys and challenges. Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize Geneticist, a biography for children, is the first in our Spotlight Biography series. The series will include a variety of biographies for children by several authors. Since it is part of a series, formatting and design decisions required input from both Edith Hope Fine, the author, and from other series authors who were still getting rights or permissions for their biographies. (more…)

Hello world!

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

eFrog Press is excited to launch our blog—Take the Leap—on the Ides of March. Future posts will highlight some of our authors and provide tips on e-publishing topics of interest to all authors. Most of all we want to hear from you, dear writers.

Two of our authors are well-known grammarians and will help us sort out those tricky grammatical issues like when to use “lay” or “lie.” Judith Lown, Regency romance author, will share her process for researching historical fiction.

The Unknown Reader

The Unknown Reader doing what she does best!

Team members will share practical social media strategies for ebook authors that will help you connect with your readers while still having time to write!

All authors need to be aware of their readers so we are excited to feature regular posts from The Unknown Reader. Her inaugural post will appear Tuesday, March 20.  Take a sneak peek at the Unknown Reader in “action.”

So, join us every Tuesday for stimulating discussion about all topics e-pub—Take the Leap! E-publishing is changing quickly and we want to talk about it. What would you like us to cover in future posts?