Category: niche publishing

Your book’s cover is its own best salesperson!

Your book only needs three kinds of covers, but they can all be designed from the same model. 1. Your bound books will require a full cover, meaning a front, a spine, and a back. (In the rare case you produce a cloth-covered book–a hardcover book–the needs are the same except that you might also [...]

Monday May 20th, 2013 in articles, Blurb, digital publishing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, product development, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | No Comments »

(#7 of 10) Publish your book as a paperback, almost free

The purpose of this 10-unit series of blogs is to answer the working question, “How can I publish a just-finished book six times, all within a couple of weeks?” This unit will discuss publishing your book as a paperback, with the publishing part nearly free. In earlier blogs we read of getting the book in [...]

Friday May 17th, 2013 in articles, Blurb, digital publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | No Comments »

Landing pages help sell your books (#6 of 10)

If you’re writing a book to sell, you need some launching pad where the potential buyer can see the book cover, the title, the copy on the title, the copy on the back cover (if it’s a paperback)–or the copy that would go there if it’s an ebook, some selling prose that would be on [...]

Friday May 10th, 2013 in 1 Shopping Cart, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | No Comments »

Why publishing is upside down in your favor…

Long ago there were monks who “printed” books with quills. Later, the printing press appeared in Europe. Many authors sold books first, then wrote them if enough people bought enough copies in advance to pay for the printing. Move past World War II. If you wanted to be a published author (particularly of novels or [...]

Monday April 22nd, 2013 in ancillary publishing, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, product development, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | No Comments »

Why aren’t you, your kids, and your folks in print right now?

Do you have a book inside you just shouting to escape? Do you have something to say and time is running out? Are you afraid that if you don’t get to it soon, will you be the zillionth person who dies bookless? Maybe it’s a novel, a kid’s book, a joke book, a memoir, or [...]

Monday April 15th, 2013 in articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, product development, publishing, Smashwords, writing | No Comments »

What kind of people should publish their own book, fast and free?

The answer to that question, and how almost anyone can do it, is what prompted me to write How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed Worldwide in Days . Here are two examples, slightly rewritten from that book… A middle school teacher getting unstuck I met a tall, skinny, bearded lad [...]

Thursday April 11th, 2013 in articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | No Comments »

Convert your ready-to-go Word manuscript into .pdf (#4 of 10)

In the last step (#3) of this publishing series, we did the final formatting for paperback publication, which we will probably send to CreateSpace (or Lightning Source). But here, at #4, there’s one big hurdle for paperbacks (and sometimes for ebooks). It’s that the final formatted file must be converted from Word into a neutral [...]

Monday April 1st, 2013 in 1 Shopping Cart, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, product development, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | No Comments »

How I calculate a rate for book reviewing or editing

(Shared with a group discussion at Linkedin on 3/28/13) I usually tell the client that I must see the whole ms first, to figure out what they really want and expect. Then when I quote on the job, I quote a total fee, not by the hour (at least to them). But I also explain [...]

Thursday March 28th, 2013 in ancillary publishing, articles, Blurb, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, product development, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | No Comments »

Formatting your proofed book copy in Word (#3 of 10)

Two blogs back the 10-Step Publishing Process series began here. That first blog, How do I profitably publish six times my just-finished book? (see below), walked you through researching and writing a book you want to share and sell. That book must be exceptional, correct, compelling, and worth far more than its buying price. Nothing [...]

Friday March 15th, 2013 in articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, product development, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | No Comments »

How do I profitably publish six times my just-finished book? (#1 of 10)

The first thing is to make a step-by-step list, then follow it, unless I discover (or remember) an even more brilliant step I left off my list. If so, I’ll just insert and do it too. There’s no law on how long the list can be. (Nor on how modest I must be. You will [...]

Thursday February 28th, 2013 in 1 Shopping Cart, ancillary publishing, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, product development, publishing, self-publishing, Smashwords, writing | No Comments »