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Imagine a place where you can walk through lush green forests and alongside crystal blue rivers…where you can lean against 200-year-old trees or feel the splash of hidden waterfalls…where you can retrace the steps of historic portages as watching bald eagle families soar overhead. Such a place not only exists, it has been preserved for all to enjoy – it’s called the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway. “Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway” is the only complete guide to the park's great day hiking trails. With one tap of the screen, you can: • ...

Imagine a place of crystal blue waters surrounded by lush green forests, of friendly Mayberry-like villages, of skies graced by rare, elegant birds, some whose wings span up to seven feet. The place is real: It’s called Burnett County, Wisconsin. Now comes the only complete guide to the county’s great day hiking trails: “Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Burnett County, Wisconsin.” With one tap of the screen, you can: • Plan days of fun family-friendly activities • Learn the best places for walking the multi-state Gandy Dancer Trail • Discover one of the National Park Service's ...

Day hiking with kids isn’t quite as simple as taking them onto a trail and walking. Many parents have no idea where there even is a trail. They wonder how to keep their kids properly dressed for the wilds and how they’ll ever carry their infant all those miles. They struggle to figure out how much water and food to bring. They ponder what to do when their children get bored on the trail or start to misbehave. They know there must be a better way to cross rough terrain than the balancing act they’re attempting. They want to understand how to treat injuries from blisters to broken bones...

If you're like most authors, the idea of formatting your paperback is frightening. You’ve heard that you can do it yourself, but you may need software programs with which you’re unfamiliar. You'll have to learn how to use such software, but you want to be a writer not a designer. Of course, you could hire someone else to do the formatting. This will get expensive, however, and may not always yield the results you want, delaying your book's publication. Whether you spend time or money to master formatting, it’s worth the effort. Simply put, your paperback needs to look good. Readers ...

You've written a book and want to publish it as a paperback. But how do you do that? Maybe you've watched a video about it, but your self-publishing house keeps rejecting what you've created. Or maybe they've accepted it, but its appearance is less than adequate when compared to all of the other books out there. Self-Publish Your Paperback Bundle addresses all of those problems and more. A collection of guidebooks in the popular Storytelling 101 Quick Read series, this bundle includes Format Your Paperback, Design Your Paperback Cover, and Upload Your Paperback to KindleDP. The three titles...

For those new to self-publishing, uploading your paperback often is a complex and frustrating process. Unfamiliar terms are used, questions that you as an author have never thought of answering are asked, and when errors occur there’s no real explanation as to how fix them. And while online “tutorials” are offered, the articles either state the obvious or appear to have been written by software engineers rather than someone who actually understands your plight. Upload Your Paperback to KindleDP corrects all of that. The explanations in this book make the process easy to understand and...

Most potential readers of your paperback will first see its front cover rather than anything written about it. It may be the thumbnail of your book cover that's online or the cover facing forward on a bookstore shelf. If that cover compels them to read the book blurb or opening lines, you are closer to making a sale. How do you create a great cover for your book? Design Your Paperback Cover answers that question. It starts with what software/apps you need to design a cover, moves on to the cover’s various elements, and finally looks at uploading it to a print on demand company like Kindle...

Publishing an ebook with your paperback is a given these days. Today, ebooks make up a sizable share of the book market, as they can be read on smartphones as well as ereaders or tablets. Thousands of books can be stored on those devices or accessed through the cloud, allowing readers to carry a library in their pocket. Why wouldn’t you want to sell your title as an ebook? The best way to construct an ebook is as a unique document rather than running your paperback through meat grinder software. Fortunately, you can construct it right on your laptop without buying expensive software or ...

You need a website if you’re a serious author. A website is the hub where readers can go to find out about your books, a little about you, where to find you on social media, how to contact you, and more. Fortunately, you can construct a website for very little cost right in the comfort of your own home. Build Your Author’s Website explains how, using easy to understand, practical explanations. This book covers such diverse topics as finding a Website Host, deciding what your website will look like, pages needed for your website, share buttons, pictures, your website text’s readability...

Many authors are happy to simply do what they enjoy most, which is write. You also have to promote your published books, though, and a time-honored way of doing so is by making presentations, such as readings and signings, at libraries, bookstores and other businesses that might carry your titles. Nail Your Book Reading and Signing covers just how to do that with easy to understand, practical tips. Topics covered include: potential locations for a book presentation; arranging, preparing and promoting your presentation; creating visuals for the presentation; avoiding stage fright during a ...

Imagine a place where you can hike miles of shoreline along the world’s largest freshwater lake or stand at the base of a 16-story waterfall, where you can retrace the steps of ancient portages or hike trails beside a scenic river popular with American presidents, where the beaches you traipse yield up bear tracks or the woods you cross take you past rare, delicious berries. The place is real: It’s called Douglas County, Wisconsin. This is the only complete guide to Douglas County’s great day hiking trails. With just a single click, you can: • Plan a day of fun family-friendly ...

Passionate and evocative, "Love Letters to Sophie’s Mom" traces a relationship from the first dance of love at a coffee shop to its tragic demise as mental illness overtakes the narrator’s beloved. Inspired by a diverse array of writings, including the verse of Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, and Bob Dylan, the collection’s 34 poems touch upon an array of themes including nature, and Southern California and Northwoods motifs.

Imagine a place where sun-dappled paths run alongside murmuring rivers, where trails retrace former rail lines past historic depots, where real carnivorous plants line your walking route, where a mile-high glacier shaped the hummocky forests around you, where any turn of the corner might reveal a majestic white-tailed buck or a tiny young porcupine sunning itself upon a rock, where bald eagles and osprey regally circle and swoop high above the trees. The place is real: It’s called Washburn County, Wisconsin. With this book, you can: • Plan a day of fun family-friendly activities • ...

THE BEST GUIDE TO ENJOYING WISCONSIN’S TOP WILDFLOWER TRAILS! UPDATED FOR 2023! Home to more than 500 wildflower species, Wisconsin stands out as one of the best states to see these beautiful wonders. From the tiny pasqueflower that appears with the first warm breath of spring to the 10-foot-tall giant sunflower rising above prairie grasses in late summer, from late spring’s woodland blooms that look like you’re walking through a Monet painting to October’s single small blossoms that work their way up through fallen leaves, Wisconsin offers a variety of great wildflower experiences....

THE BEST GUIDE TO ENJOYING MINNESOTA’S TOP WILDFLOWER TRAILS! Home to more than 500 wildflower species, Minnesota stands out as one of the best states to see these beautiful wonders. From the Northwoods where forest floors come alive with color each spring to the prairies where yellow and purple flowers rise above the swaying grasses…from winter’s end when tiny pasqueflowers mark the coming warmth to autumn when sunflowers and goldenrod herald the harvest season…Simply put, Minnesota offers a variety of great wildflower experiences. A hike is the best way to see these flowers, but ...

Imagine a place where you can walk quiet paths lined with red-leaved maple and green-needled spruce, where grouse drum and dance in the wide open each spring, where osprey and bald eagles dip out of the sky upon eyeing a river fish, of trails that once were historic portage routes used by fur traders, of routes alongside a rapids-filled river now conquered by modern kayakers. The place is real: It’s called Sawyer County, Wisconsin. This is the only complete guide to Sawyer County’s great day hiking trails. With a tap of the screen, this volume helps you: • Plan a day of fun family-...

Imagine a place where you can hike sandy beaches as enjoying fantastic vistas of the world’s largest freshwater lake, a place of towering pines that bald eagles fly over and black bears scamper under, a place where you can explore sea caves or hike across billion-year-old red rock. The place is real – it’s called Bayfield County, Wisconsin. This is the only complete guide to Bayfield County’s great day hiking trails. With just a single click, you can: • Plan a day of fun family-friendly activities • Learn the best places for exploring the Apostle Islands • Discover popular ...

THE BEST GUIDE TO ENJOYING WISCONSIN’S TOP FALL COLOR TRAILS! Autumn in Wisconsin is like living in a painting. Mother Nature celebrates with masterful brushstrokes, from the brilliant yellows, oranges and red of maples to the scarlet and russets of oaks, from the ambers and golds of aspen and birch to the crimson and purples of sumac and white ash. Accenting it are the fiery reds of prairie grasses, the bronze cornstalks of farm fields, the oranges of pumpkins and gourds, and the carmines of plump ripe apples and cranberries. Nature finds her palette when September arrives. Wisconsin’s...

THE BEST GUIDE TO ENJOYING MINNESOTA’S TOP FALL COLOR TRAILS! Autumn in Minnesota is like living in a painting. Before the all-pervasive green of summer gives way to the stark white of winter, fall celebrates with masterful brushstrokes, from the ambers and golds of aspen and birch to the crimson and purples of sumac and white ash, from the brilliant yellows, oranges and red of maples to the scarlet and russets of oaks. Accenting this are the fiery reds of prairie grasses, the bronze cornstalks of farm fields, the oranges of pumpkins and gourds, and the carmines of plump ripe apples and ...

Imagine a place where a river plunges a fifth of the way down a 20-story canyon, where premier trout streams run through picturesque fields and charming woodlands, where bald eagles grace the skies and white-tailed deer graze at twilight, where prairies have been restored to look just as the pioneers saw them, where the Midwest’s largest earthen dam holds back a mighty waterway. The place is real: It’s called St. Croix County, Wisconsin. “Day Hiking Trails of St. Croix County” is the only complete guide to the best trails of the west-central Wisconsin county. With one tap of the ...