Tag: #selfpublishinghints
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C.L. Cannon’s Book Fair
Post-publication, authors need to advertise their books. There are a variety of ways to do this. There will be a heap of other ideas, but today, we are focusing on online book fairs. To look at a live book fair, go to https://clcannon.net/bookfair . Here the organiser has created links to hundreds of books and…
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Book Sales Strategy #1 Rapid Release
Let’s play a game of pretend. You’ve been writing for a while, and you can write and edit to a reasonable standard. You have maybe 500 social media followers from your author persona, but you are a newbie author. You know nothing about self-publishing, but you’ve invested time (and money if you have any) into…
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Book Formatting 101
You’ve written an amazing book, and you’ve spent hours and then more hours doing all the stages of editing. You’ve received feedback from critique groups, and they are itching to buy a finished copy, but how do you get your book from writing to formatted? There are three options. We’ll name them here but cover…
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Types of Book Publishing
Ever heard of Low Content books? In general there are three types of book publishing: Low, Medium, and High Content books Low content boos Low-content books are like our line of quilt planners, journals, or colouring books. There are very limited words (think title page and maybe some section headers) and multiple repeated pages or…
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A brief look at building your reader market.
Whilst you are busy editing your book, you need to be building your reader base. This is an incredibly huge topic, with plenty of dedicated groups and websites. Kindlepreneur, Mark Dawson, and Johanna Penn all have plenty of marketing information. Facebook sites can be informative (but there tends to be conflicting information because different genres…
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