From Rick: When you’re ready to publish your book on Amazon, you have several decisions to make, and these decisions are different for the Kindle e-book and the CreateSpace print book. I have published several books myself and have helped
Read MoreFrom Scott: Recently, I explained a series of free download offers I had arranged for all nine of my novels, spread out over a week or so. I planned to advertise them on different sites in order to increase their
Read MoreFrom Scott: I have to give credit where credit is due. When I explained my plans for this blog, Rick was the one who offered up the title. After some serious thought, and probably a lack of extensive planning, I
Read MoreGetting ready to self-publish From Rick: If you’ve been following along in this series and have followed my advice, I think you should be just about ready to self-publish your work. The ONE thing I have not yet discussed is
Read MoreIntroduction and Configuring MS Word for your manuscript From Rick: I’ve talked at length in previous blogs about self-publishing, traditional publishing, and vanity presses. Beginning with this post, and for a series of posts following it, I’ll talk about the
Read MoreFrom Rick: Three years ago, Scott did an excellent post on this topic. At the time, the “self-publishing revolution” was barely five years old, and in the minds of many would-be authors, the traditional publishing route was still the only
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last week I talked about the dangers of Kindle Select when used improperly. This week I want to mention a couple of book marketing games that rarely lead to significant sales and that can backfire. An author’s primary
Read MoreFrom Rick: It’s a fair statement that at least thousands of indie/self-published books are released each month, and that number is growing. The biggest challenge the self-published author faces is marketing his book so that it gets noticed among the
Read MoreHow much “self” to put in “self-publishing”? From Scott: The advent of online self-publishing, especially now that there is a rush to publish on Amazon, has resolved many issues authors face, only to create new ones. Under the traditional system,
Read MoreFrom Rick: This week, we have author Graeme Reynolds doing a post about what it costs to bring your finished novel out as an ebook, along with some thoughts on pricing it. Last November, Graeme self-published his first novel High
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