Author Archives: Keni Arts

Promoting Your Ebook: A Real-Life Example

Here’s a real-life example of how I’ve begun promoting my ebook, aDena Dena. I trust this will be useful in you promoting your ebook. This past weekend, I began promoting my ebook aDena Dena. I introduced the ebook at a small festival in my home town. Leading up to the event, I placed a full-page […]

The Demise of the Dust Jacket at the Dawn of Digital Books

There are many things to celebrate and some to lament regarding the emerging digital book technology and the vanishing printed book art. One thing I’m beginning to look upon nostalgically is the demise of dust jackets. The cliché, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ is only partly true part of the time. Publishers of […]

Post 9-11 Rosebowl – Remembering the Victims and Responders

Self-Publishing – Ten Steps to Completing Your Book – Part 2

  In our last post on Self-Publishing, we discussed steps 1-5 of ways to help you complete your book. Here are steps 6-10.

Self-Publishing – Ten Steps to Completing Your Book – Part 1

Technology has made self-publishing relatively accessible to everyone. This is especially true of e-books. The big question now is, “How do I complete my book?” Have you ever awaken from a dream that self-published on your mind. You probably didn’t ask for that dream, it just showed up one night. If you didn’t write your […]

Self-Publishing a Book. Are E-Books Right for Me?

Choosing the right vehicle to self-publishing a book should be given serious consideration. There are so many self-publishing options available today that it can be either a blessing or a hassle to pick the right one. Hopefully, you’ll begin to have a better understanding from this moment forward. I mustn’t assume that everyone reading this […]

God’s Water Falls in the Hands of Friends

Here’s an update on my e-book, ‘God’s Water Falls’. I completed the artwork in the third week in August. I assembled it all on my iPad on a soon-to-be-released-app called ‘Book Creator, which I’ve had the pleasure to beta test. I’ll tell you more about the app once it is in the Apple’s App Store […]

Why We Don’t Need Another Killer Tablet

Before a new e-reading device makes its way to consumer wish lists, tech journalists start asking, could this be the (insert name here) killer tablet. The name most often wedged between the parentheses is the iPad.  Unless some developer/manufacturer leaps five years into the future, it appears that the best any of them can do […]

How to Become an iOS Beta Tester: Part 3 Can You Keep a Secret?

In this final post about ‘How to Become an iOS Beta Tester, we ask the question, “Can you keep a secret?” Why is that so important for a beta tester? The bigger question is, why is that important at all in this culture of openness? Some people applaud certain groups or individuals who expose governments, […]

How to Become an iOS Beta Tester: Part 2

iOS app developers face a perilous future when they rush their product to market without adequate beta testing. In Part 1 of How to Become an iOS Beta Tester, we discussed ‘Why and How’ to become a beta tester. Today we’ll look at the ‘Qualifications and the Work’ of a beta tester. Finally, we’ll talk […]