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...
Many authors are recognizable from a single sentence: William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Ernest Hemingway, just to name a few. We know their work because they have a distinct author’s voice. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” -Shakespeare“A...
In our turbulent and ever-changing world, it stands to reason that we’d have a lot of questions. Luckily for us, the question mark is the perfect piece of punctuation for clearly articulating and posing these questions. Best of all: it’s so easy to use! In...
Did you know that trailers aren’t just for movies? In case you didn’t know: book trailers are to books what movie trailers are to movies. And sometimes, they can even look like movie trailers, with full sets, actors, and dialogue. Some book trailers lean towards...
What is an index? If you’ve ever read a book in your life (which we hope you have) you’ve come across and used an index. The exact definition is, “an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end...
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