How to Create a Book Cover, Part 3 Our February Newsletter offered a quick book cover exercise to get your creative juices flowing. You were to create a fictional book cover around the following synopsis: ——- It is the Super Bowl of all Super Bowls and the Cinderella team, the Oregon Argonauts are scheduled to […]
Free eBook Formatting Guides: Style, Marketing and Software Programs
Short list of FREE ebook formatting marketing and style guides, as well as top ebook formatting tools to Create, Promote and Market your ebook.
Book Covers Using Similar Stock Images: Confusing or Not?
Have you ever shopped for a book and run across unrelated book covers that appeared eerily similar? So similar they appeared to be part of a series? This issue is cropping up more and more in self-publishing and with alarming regularity. But does it really matter? Using images is not new when creating advertising. In […]
How to get Free, Quality Royalty Free Images
As a writer, at some point you will need a cover. As a designer, you need a lot of images for your work. There are many “free” sources for images. Unfortunately, many (not all) are at a lower quality required for a digital ebook or print book. No matter your image choice, remember you run […]
Amazon Break Through Novel Award Contest
Sixth annual Novel Award contest offers a $50,000 advance and publishing with Amazon Publishing. 5 categories, 5 finalists. Contest Closes January 27th.
Smashwords Direct – Smashwords Accepts epub file uploads
After years of wanting this feature, Smashwords launched (Dec. 2012) a much needed improvement to their system – Smashwords Direct allows the support of ebooks that “contain richer, more sophisticated formatting”. “Smashwords Direct allows you to upload your own professionally designed .epub file to Smashwords. You can use Smashwords Direct to replace a Smashwords Meatgrinder-generated […]
Using Author Central: pulling print and digital together
Author Central Marketing: There are many titles published in both Kindle and POD, but several do not show this critical detail on the Product Page. Because of this, you could be losing potential customers and sales.