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Front Matter: Organizing the Beginning of Your Book

by The Book Designer on September 20, 2021 54 Comments

Self-Publishing Basics: How to Organize Your Book’s Front Matter includes a checklist of front matter items.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Editorial, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: book construction, book design, book publishing, front matter, frontmatter, parts of a book, self publishing

Amazon Self-Publishing – Facts and FAQs

by Guest Author on March 5, 2021 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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What is a Preface?

by Guest Author on February 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Writing, Self Publishing Basics

This Week in the Blogs, March 10 – 16, 2018

by Shelley Sturgeon on March 18, 2018 6 Comments

Blogs for Self-Publishers, March 10 – 16, 2018 including Kristen Lamb, Lisa Tener, Frances Caballo, Stephanie Chandler and Gill Andrews

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: blogging, Frances Caballo, Gill Andrews, Kristen Lamb, Lisa Tener, Self-Publishing, Stephanie Chandler

Monday Mailbag: ISBN, Copyright and More

by Joel Friedlander on October 31, 2016 11 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Bowker, copyright, CreateSpace, ISBN, Q&A

Do You Know Where Your ISBNs Are? (Free Logbook Download)

by Joel Friedlander on April 4, 2016 23 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Bowker, Excel, ISBN

Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata

by Joel Friedlander on May 2, 2012 34 Comments

Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata for beginning book publishers along with a 5-step process for dealing with your book’s metadata

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book publishing, cataloging, CreateSpace, metadata, search, self-publish a book

Author Blogging 101: The Blogging Mindset

by Joel Friedlander on November 8, 2011 19 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing

Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01

by Joel Friedlander on May 14, 2011 12 Comments

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

Filed Under: Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Video Tagged With: book marketing, book metadata, Bowker, discoverability, e-book publishing, ISBN, self publishing, video blog, vlog

How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print

by Joel Friedlander on February 22, 2011 22 Comments

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

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: books in print, Bowker, BowkerLink, Dublin Core, ISBN, metadata, self-publish a book

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