by Clarissa | Oct 11, 2021 | Self publishing, writing
For the next in my series of posts on self-publishing I am going to discuss email lists. These aren’t actually limited to just self-published authors, as if you are traditionally published you might be interested in a mailing list as well, for all the same...
by Clarissa | Oct 26, 2020 | Self publishing, writing
Your front and back matter are all the pages you put in your book that aren’t the text of the book itself. These are different for ebooks and printed books, so you need different versions of them for each type of format you are creating. At the front of the book...
by Clarissa | Aug 31, 2020 | Self publishing, writing
For the next instalment of my series on self-publishing here is a short post on book blurbs. Once you are preparing to upload your manuscript and sell it you need to have a blurb – this is the few paragraphs of text that show on the book page on each retailer...
by Clarissa | Jun 29, 2020 | Self publishing, writing |
Whether you choose to publish your ebooks exclusively to Amazon, and so join their KDP Select and make your books available through Kindle Unlimited, or you decide to make you ebooks available wide across multiple retailers, you need to learn how Amazon works. Amazon...
by Clarissa | May 25, 2020 | Self publishing, writing |
As a self-employed entrepreneur (which is what being a self-published author is) you need to engage with your audience in order to raise their interest in your products. In this case your books. And social media is one way to do that. It is not the only way, and there...