Uploading your book when self-publishing sounds complicated, but it’s really not. Being aware of what’s involved and then going through the process a couple of times will help make it all go smoothly. Here are a few tips to help you get started. Click the linked title for the full article.
• What is an ‘imprint’ in self-publishing?
For those authors self-publishing a book for the first time, there’s a lot to learn – new terminology, new skills, new business models. One of the terms a new author likely is to run into, especially when uploading their book to Kindle Direct Publishing or another print on demand company is imprint.
• Selecting paper quality when self-publishing
• How to embed fonts in a pdf of your manuscript
• Do you need extra services a P.O.D. house offers?
• How to determine your ebook’s price
• Always review proof your book before okaying it
After you’ve uploaded a formatted version of your book’s text and its cover, you’ll be asked to review a proof of your book. No matter how busy you are, no matter how much of a rush you are to get your book for sale, no matter how many times you’ve already looked at it, heed these five words: “Never leave anything to chance.” Take one last look at your book.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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