Tables allow you to display facts, figures and data in an organized manner. However, tables must be manually coded into an ebook, which can be time consuming and/or expensive. Use tables for tabular data only Do not use tables to create drop caps or to highlight text in an ebook using borders and colored background. […]
Author Marketing: Using Avatars to build connections – Gravatar.com
Easy to setup author marketing tool – image, bio and website URLs follow your every comment. Helps to build your author brand.
Kindle Formatting Solutions: Easily Add Borders & Colored Backgrounds to Paragraphs for eBooks
Creating paragraphs you want to highlight with colored backgrounds are rendered using the <div> tag with border and background color attributes. By default, text is displayed as black in ebooks. If the background color is dark, consider changing the text to white (color:white) in order for the text to be viewable. TIP: Always proof your […]
Murder on the Orient Espresso by Sandra Balzo
Murder on the Orient Espresso, Available Now It’s November and Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, is in South Florida at an annual crime-writers’ conference with her beau, local sheriff Jake Pavlik, who is due to speak as a ‘forensics expert’. Maggy’s pledge to behave solely as a tourist becomes trickier […]
How to Set Up Kindle Countdown Deals (Kindle Select)
Kindle Countdown Deals allows publishers (authors) to run limited-time promotions which earn more royalties, boost “paid” rankings and garners more readers.
Creating Kindle eBook Covers: Sample and Example
Book cover tutorial on ebook cover design with downloadable example.
Lessons in Authorship, or how to self-publish and live
As a self-publishing author, we live for reviews of our work — good or bad. Reviews are meant to be an overall evaluation of the entire book: the formatting, content, offers, delivery. At times, we get reviews based on initial first reactions, and it is these reviews, especially the scathing, hurtful ones, that the author needs to learn to deal with.