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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 »

How many book pages a day should you write?

A hard reminder: if you really want to write a book (even better, get it published), the whole writing issue is up to you. Novelists often write two to five pages a day, unedited. Old veterans can plunk out 10-20. Nonfictionfolk pretty much write once they have the facts. Somebody wrote the story of the [...]

Wednesday May 8th, 2013 in , Amazon, article writing, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, non-fiction book, novel, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, research, Scribd, self-publishing, Smashwords, writer, writing | No Comments »

Writing a book? You need three copies at all times

You need to have your book in three places: in your computer (seeable on the monitor), on a USB flash drive (or some equivalent) just in case, and in a three-ring binder. The first is obvious. The second gives you peace of mind and lets you work on others’ computers and keep your results safe [...]

Friday May 3rd, 2013 in , Amazon, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, non-fiction book, novel, pubit, publisher, publishing, Smashwords, writing | 3 Comments »

(#5) Your book needs a description, a price, and your bio

#5 in our “how to publish your own book” series focuses on a description of your book, its price, and your biography to list in your book “open” publishing listing. Since the submission form requires all three items to have your book published free, or almost free, at Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, iPad, CreateSpace, Scribd, and [...]

Monday April 29th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, article writing, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, 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 »

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 »

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