Writing, formatting, and the business of indie publishing — every episode lands here as it publishes, with the companion article when there is one.
You start strong and you know how it ends, but somewhere in the middle the book goes slack. Usually it's one of three things: a thread goes quiet, a chapter where nothing moves, or a promise you forgot to keep. Here's how to find all three, and fix them, in Pendrilo Studio.
In chapter one, her eyes are grey. By chapter twenty, they're green, and you never noticed. A reader will. Here's how to keep your characters straight across a whole novel, or a whole series, in Pendrilo Studio.
If you're paying an editor by the word or by the hour, you don't want them spending it on "just" and "very." Filler words, wordy phrases and the same word three times in a paragraph are hard to see in your own writing, and easy to fix once you can. Here's how, in Pendrilo Studio.
You upload your paperback to KDP, wait, and get it back: your interior file needs changes. Most of those rejections come from a short list of rules. Here's how to get them right before you upload, using Pendrilo Formatter, which is free.
You know the story and you have the chapters, but something in the middle isn't working, and you can't see it from inside one chapter. Here's how to plot a novel so you can see the whole book at once, and spot the stretch where a thread goes quiet before your readers do.
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