If you’re an author, it’s probably you considered the possibility of publishing your work on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), the world’s largest self-publishing platform. Well, you’re in the right place. In this simple guide I’ll explain how to publish a book on Amazon in the fastest and easiest way. You’ll see that in a […]
Self Publishing Basics
What is a Preface?
Sometimes, it’s important to refresh your knowledge of the basic parts of a book. It might not be glamorous or exciting, but it’s an essential part of making sure your book contains everything a reader expects. One example of these plain but essential basic elements is the preface of a book. What exactly is it, […]
This Week in the Blogs, March 10 – 16, 2018
Blogs for Self-Publishers, March 10 – 16, 2018 including Kristen Lamb, Lisa Tener, Frances Caballo, Stephanie Chandler and Gill Andrews
Monday Mailbag: ISBN, Copyright and More
Time for another installment of our long-running, intermittently-published question-and-answer roundups. Yes, it’s another Monday Mailbag in which we gather questions from my email inbox, from the comments on the blog, and from strange calls in the middle of the night from distraught authors wondering just where they went wrong. Once again I’ve reached deep into […]
Do You Know Where Your ISBNs Are? (Free Logbook Download)
Back in 1986 it took a lot longer to get an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) from Bowker. I remember talking to the women who issued the ISBNs from an office somewhere in New Jersey. There was an administrative fee, as I recall of about $35, and once your order was placed, eventually a large […]
Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata
Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata for beginning book publishers along with a 5-step process for dealing with your book’s metadata
Self-Publishing Basics: How to Organize Your Book’s Front Matter
Self-Publishing Basics: How to Organize Your Book’s Front Matter includes a checklist of front matter items.
Author Blogging 101: The Blogging Mindset
There’s a bit of a leap you have to make when, as a writer, you decide to start an author’s blog. But what you hear if you ask writers why they decided to start blogging, are things like these: My agent/publisher told me to do it I heard you were supposed to Joe Konrath has […]
Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01
Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01 Video blog, Joel Friedlander discusses Bowker’s Books in Print Database and book metadata for self-publishers
How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print
How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print and the importance of metadata to make your book discoverable by search engines