Free tools, tips and links from SPR on writing and selling your book
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If you’re using WordPress (.org), this plugin is somewhat useful, but could be a lot more useful. It streamlines something that doesn’t necessarily need to be streamlined, but it is a useful organizational tool if you’ve got a lot of books to manage.
If you’re already using WordPress and made a blog page for a book, the system for adding a book’s details and bookstore links is pretty straight forward. Here’s how I’ve done it. Those buy links could perhaps be better organized. But the process of putting together that post is straight forward: add details and images. MyBookTable […]
A nice-looking ebook store open to self-publishers, still in beta. Put together by a self-publisher.
[…]Why do you only sell indie books?
The main reason is that indie authors are exciting. The good thing about publishing yourself is that you’re not tied down to market trends or a publisher’s business plan. Indie authors can write what they want, when they want. The result? A different breed of writing. A pedigree we’re proud to represent.
Here’s another reason for you: Indie authors can sometimes have trouble standing out on huge stores like Amazon, and constantly work hard to make
Smashwords unveiled a cool new promotional tool where authors can interview themselves. Interviews can be ranked according to popularity.
Here’s how it works:
[…]How to create, edit and publish your Interview:
- Your Smashwords Interview can have as many or as few questions as you like. Next to each “Q:” Write out your question, or select from one of our suggested questions.
- We have about a dozen suggested questions to get your creative juices flowing. These questions are all optional. Feel free to modify our questions or create your own!
- Each Answer can be up to 5,000 characters long (around 600
Do you need your book reviewed to improve sales and publicity? Or maybe you’d like an honest opinion before you self-publish? Then why not submit your book for review by a professional reviewer from only $109?
I’ve often seen independent authors posting a series of cover images online and asking people to choose their favourite; or they might ask a handful of friends what cover they’d buy. Choosing a book cover with either method doesn’t make a lot of sense. I have been telling my family I’m going to paint my bedroom for the last 15 years, but there it is, the same ugly shade of pink it was in the late 1990s.
My point is that people don’t always do what they’ll say they’ll do. A better question to ask friends or people […]
One of the more challenging steps in the self-publishing process for me was creating Kindle eBook cover designs. Second most challenging I’d have to say was the formatting, but I did end up finding a solution to that. We’ll save that story for another day.
Being a writer and not a graphic designer, I had no clue how to approach book cover designs and was next to useless in Photoshop.
However, I had literally no publishing budget so I was prepared to spend some time learning new things in order to take on the entire project with little or no […]