It’s a common question: How do you know your book is finished? I’m going to give you the answer right here and right now, but you’re not going to like it. A book is never finished. There’s always one more tweak, something that could have been written a bit more smoothly. A new development that…
The question of how to become a self published writer is one I field on an almost daily basis. More and more authors are realizing that traditional publishing is going the way of the dinosaur and self publishing is shedding its “also-ran” status. There are several reasons for this. Without going into every last one,…
There’s a reason why you shouldn’t hit PUBLISH in the middle of moving. Last month, my landlords decided to put the condo on the market and I jumped at the chance to get out of my lease a couple of months early. I had been there for ten years; I loved the place, but I…
A few weeks ago we explored the forums on KBoards. This week we’re taking a look at the forums on Amazon’s KDP Community. Once you’re in your KDP account, you can click on the Community tab and you’ll find a refreshingly clean list of forum topic categories. Clicking on any category will bring you to…
Did you know you could publish your blog to Kindle? (And your podcasts, by the way.) Well, you can and it’s easy-peasy. I was at Podfest, listening to a talk on putting your podcast on Kindle (transcripts of podcasts, if you want the short story), and the speaker asked who in the room had published…
It’s easy to publish an eBook on Kindle. Publishing a really great looking eBook on Kindle is a smidge harder. That takes a little graphic design and a trained eye. Fortunately, in the nonfiction world, our audience is looking for solutions to their problems more than a stunning layout. eBooks with numerous charts, graphs, and…
How you publish an eBook depends on what platform (or distribution channel) you want to use. If you want to have an eBook on your site to use as an opt-in lead generator, that’s a very simple process and we’ll cover that in this blog post. If you want to use an electronic book platform…