Book Publication Types
Formatting Novels
L.J. Smith & the Vampire Diaries
today's session!!
misc.
100

Hybrid publishing is the combination of 

self & traditional publishing

100

What format should you save your final piece in for most print on demand services

PDF!

100

Ghostwriting is when

a person writes in the name of another person, group, company, or institution without receiving a byline or public credit.

100

IPR stand for

Intellectual Property Rights

100

 the name of our mascot is 

BLOCKY!

200

traditional publishing is good because 

it has the resources that individuals may not have like distributor connections and high quality editors.

200

every page besides the body of the novel should be numbered with

roman numerals (slightly outdated)

200
L.J. Smith was fired and lost her rights because 

Alloy Entertainment, the company that owned the rights to her series, was team Stefan. They told her to write Elena ending up with Stefan, but L.J Smith refused.

200

Addison Cain's born to be bound was influence by her fanfiction of

Bane from the Dark Knight

200

2 popular fanfic sites are

ao3, wattpad, fanfiction.net, tumblr...

300

AI has become a concern with self publishing due to the fact that 

an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale on various self-publishing services in recent months.

300

The importance of grids when formatting your work is that

it ensures your pages aren’t skewed

300

Which came first, the vampire diaries series or twilight?

the vampire diaries

300

When fanfic authors commercialize their work, it is called: 

filing off the serial numbers.

300

Our first author seminar was...

Marina Cohen

400

Vanity Publishing are considered scams because

they do not actually help you to publish and distribute your books, they simply pretend to and take an unrealistically huge portion of sales in the process...

400

The fonts you HAVE to use are

trick question: it depends on the work you're writing, but generally you have creative freedom with your fonts

400

She posted her remaining work for the series on the following website:

Kindle Worlds

400

The location of Zoey Ellis' book distributor is

online distributor in Oklahoma

400

Our next author seminar's speaker is

Ann Y.K. Choi

500

The purpose of margins when formatting is so 

because certain printing types include printing on large sheets before cutting them into the correct size so margins give leeway for errors. (slightly outdated)
500

Name 2 challenges that come with work for hire

Having no ownership or control over the work, Minimal to no credit, Limited creativity, Limited future opportunities, exploitative companies

500

2 pros & 2 cons of registering copyright for your work are

  • Registering copyright benefits

    • legally entitled to any loss of earnings caused by person stealing your intellectual property

    • It’s like insurance

  • Registering cons

    • Hard to prove

    • Chances of infringement are slim

    • It costs 50 - 70ish bucks here in Canada

500

 Addison Cain refers to herself as

cat mama

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