I know a lot of readers don’t actually visit the blog directly, but read articles in their feed reader or in an email message. And I’m glad we have those available, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to keep up with much of what goes on in the...
Authors know how hard it is to make a book stand out, but using 3D book covers can give your book a unique look. A 3D book cover can catch a reader’s eye and inspire them to pick your book on a shelf compared to the other ones around it. As an author, you know...
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...
By Lee Foster Editor’s Note: Since this article was originally published in November 2019, Draft2Digital has acquired Smashwords. For more information on that merger / acquisition, check out the article from SelfPublishing.com. The original press release is...
By Lee Foster There’s nothing like actually going through the publishing process on Amazon Kindle, again, with a new book, to refresh yourself on our rapidly changing self-pub world. I had last uploaded a book and cover file two years ago. This past month I had a new...
In my recent blog redesign, I added the “SHOP” to the menu to make it easier to find resources with basic information about self-publishing. Each resource helps with a stage on the journey to becoming an author and publishing a book. People ask me all the...
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