Self-Publishing Tips, Tutorials and Guides
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 … [Continue reading]
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, … [Continue reading]
Kindle Countdown Deals are a great way to draw attention to your book without giving it away for free. KCD allows publishers (authors) to run limited-time promotions which, in turn, can help earn more royalties, boost your "paid" rankings as well as … [Continue reading]
UPDATED POST 12/2013 (originally posted Dec 2011) We're on Day 7 of our 25 Days to ePublishing, Marketing and Promotion. Today I will show you by example a sample ebook cover layout that you can download (JPG, PDF) to use as a … [Continue reading]
When you're wrong, you are wrong... but it still hurts. When I make a mistake, I own up to it, and if you have been reading my blog for awhile, then you know I also will post about it. Not to rant, or whine, but to share how easy it is to make a … [Continue reading]
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Q: What image format should I use for ebook cover image in my ebook? E.g. PNG, BMP, GIF, JPG, TIFF or TGA? A: The best solution for widest device compatibility is to use JPEG (jpg) for photos and PNG for everything else). Formatting Images Within … [Continue reading]