When designing a book cover, many authors opt to use photos for their background. But you can’t use just any old photo you find online. You have to find one that has the proper licensing rights. In other words, what you want to look for is free images for commercial...
Search Engine Optimization, commonly referred to as SEO, is the art and science of convincing a search engine, like Google, to send people to your website, content, or product. SEO for authors is vital if you want readers who don’t already know who you are be able to...
One of the worst mistakes self-published authors make is deviating too far from the conventional standards of the publishing industry (aka, what readers have come to know and expect). And one of the most common areas in which they do that is when choosing book...
Many writers who think about publishing a book are taken aback when they start to put their book together for publication. They realize very quickly that a book is not the same as a manuscript; there are so many parts to consider in both the front matter and back...
I recently published my 21st book to the KDP platform, having been self-publishing for the last 7 years. And as I was going through the self-publishing steps again, it occurred to me how the platform has evolved over the past decade. This text-based, step-by-step...
