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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 , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, seminars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, 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 , Amazon, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | No Comments »

What must you have in your book?

Take an hour, for starters. Go some place where you won’t be disturbed and write down your book’s purpose statement. It may be easier to start with a working question, like “What will your book be about?” The answer is the “purpose statement.” Your book will help realize that purpose. The statement might be: “The [...]

Monday May 13th, 2013 in , Amazon, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, interview, Kindle, Lightning Source, magazine article, niche publishing, non-fiction book, product developer, publisher, publishing, quotes, research, Scribd, self-publishing, Smashwords, speaker, writer | 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 , Amazon, article writing, Blurb, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, Smashwords, writer, 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 , Amazon, ancillary publishing, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, 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 , Blurb, book writing, cookbook, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, humor, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, pubit, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, Smashwords, writer, writing | No Comments »

Your book is the answer to one question.

What follows is the most important step you will take if you want to write a publishable and much bought book. Otherwise you will likely spend a year writing or dabbling at five unfinished books—and none will see printor will you receive a dime! Fortunately, there’s an almost fail-safe way to get your book timely [...]

Thursday April 4th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, Smashwords, writer, 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 , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, novel, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, 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 , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writing | No Comments »

The 10-Step Publishing Process: The List in Order (#2 of 10)

Here’s the premise: I want to profitably publish my just-finished book six times, and I want a couple of those versions in print in 2-3 weeks. I’ll show you how to do that in a 10-step blog series. This is blog #2. (It began with “How do I profitably publish six times my just-finished book?” [...]

Tuesday March 5th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | No Comments »

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