If you are self-publishing, one of your tasks is to design the interior of your book. You can use your word processor, but that often leads to a shoddy job (see Book Interior Design: Tips to Avoid the Amateur Look).… Continue Reading
If you have just finished your new blockbuster and are ready to get it in print, then you owe it to your book and to yourself to produce it in the most professional manner possible. Since you might not have… Continue Reading
In my last post, I promised to make some templates to help you out with using Linux software for your book projects. Here is the first template: “No Dog In This Fight.odt” a LibreOffice Writer file that you can modify… Continue Reading
Coming soon: Templates. In my last post, Twelve Tips: How to Reduce the Cost of Your Self-Published Book, I suggested that you could use the open source programs, LibreOffice and Scribus (both free) to produce your book. LibreOffice and OpenOffice… Continue Reading
Self-publishing is a tricky business. You can read on the internet that most self-published authors only sell a handful of books. So if it costs you $4000.00, $2000.00 or even $500.00 to self-publish, then you are going to be in… Continue Reading
During a tutorial for my General Chemistry class in the Fall of 2015 a student asked me if I believed in global warming. There were only two students in attendance and we were sitting together at a table working on… Continue Reading
Thanks to all who attended our book signing at the Tom Green Central Library on December 5, 2015. I signed the Schnoz of the Rings: A Parody of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and my brother,… Continue Reading
My brother, David, and I will sign our new books at 1 pm, Saturday, December 5, 2015 in the Stephens Central Branch of the Tom Green County Library in San Angelo, Texas. Light refreshments will be served. If you’ve read… Continue Reading
The Schnoz of the Rings: A Parody of J. R. R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings by John J. Osterhout was reviewed by Caroline McCullagh in her Page Turners column for the August 2015 Issue of the Mensa Bulletin.… Continue Reading
I polled the students in my flipped General Chemistry II class to see what they found useful for their studies. At the beginning of the Spring 2015 semester, we made a list of things they could do to help themselves… Continue Reading