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The Rise of Book Promotions for Authors A book promotion side is a website service that allows you to promote your book at a discounted rate or for free when the book launches, Or, You just want to promote it for a weekend. Book promotion sites use email lists, Social...
Long before there was any great writing software, most authors found themselves writing on anything they could: Pads of paper, napkins, scraps of paper, or multiple Word docs that you'd later sort through and organize to see what you’ve really got. But these days,...
Read this before using Novel Factory If you’re writing a fiction novel, there are a lot of resources and tools at your disposal. You may have heard of Scrivener, the writing software that has helped thousands of writers complete their books and become bestselling...
Vellum software is one of the newest book formatting choices available to self-published and independent authors, but is it right for you? Book formatting can be costly, and a headache, depending on how complex your book’s formatting requirements are, and how...
Don’t know how to self-publish a book successfully? That’s a good problem to have! If you’re trying to figure out how to publish a book on your own, it means you’re a small part of the population that has actually written a book. That’s incredible! Related: How To...
Editor's Note: Since this post was published in April 2020, Smashwords—the biggest aggregator next to Draft2Digital—was recently acquired by D2D, and now, the merger means big changes for the Indie author self-publishing community. But what do those changes mean, and...
Why are there new self-publishing courses popping up on the market each day? Because the self-publishing industry is hot, and gaining traction at record speeds! The time has never been better to write and publish a book, especially in the booming world of books and...
Figuring out how to get an ISBN number for a self-published book may sound scary, but it's actually more simple than many authors think! If you're self-publishing a printed book, the best action you can take is to get your own ISBN as a self-published author. ...
In working with thousands of authors over the years, the one bottleneck (and fear) of book production is the formatting piece of the project. Why formatting? It’s the one area most indie authors get hung up on when it comes to the tech side of the business. Most...