Authors need to be aware of what to expect when hiring someone to create their ebook file — are they actually formatting your project or merely converting it?
Building your Author Brand and Target Audience
The failure of many authors is not recognizing that their writing is a business. And the best way to establish your business is to build your personal brand by driving traffic to your online site through original content.
Smashwords Mark Coker talks about e-Publishing (March 2011)
Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords.com, talks about his ebook publishing and distribution platform. Smashwords makes it easy for any author in the world to upload a finished manuscript and instantly e-publish as a multi-format ebook to most of the major ebook retailers.
Book Marketing One Day at a Time
Time is precious for self-publishing authors and the thought of marketing can quickly become overwhelming. Here’s 13 daily marketing tips.
Author SEO: Keyword Mapping
How can an author compete with the hundreds of thousands of other books on the market? SEO or search engine optimization. Keywords, tags and more…
Author Central: An Effective Marketing Tool for Authors
Many authors don’t take advantage of or are not even aware that Amazon provides a free author page (Author Central), not just on their .com site, but on their International sites as well.
Finding the Perfect Font for Your Book Cover Design
When designing a book or book cover, finding the perfect font for the project can be an exhausting process. Compromise on quality just isn’t an option. Add to this a tight budget and many turn to the web in search of free fonts.