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How to Use Your Kindle to Self Edit Your Self-Published Book: Guest post from Matthew Turner

Today’s guestpost comes from Matthew Turner, who is the author of the new book Beyond Parallel (which sounds great! I love the premise of the Sliding Doors type love story). The30 Day Books blog usually focuses on marketing and promotions tips, but I feel very, very strongly abouthaving a well-edited book way as the groundwork of your promotions. Self-editing doesn’t replace editing by a
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Gift for writers: The beauty of book binding and letterpress

Tomorrow is my birthday (yay!) In the spirit of birthdays, I’m going to tell you about a gift I won last month, which would make for the perfect birthday present for that writer in your life – or maybe yourself! It’s a funny story how I won this gift. It seems that the only thing I ever win is books, which I am very
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Happy New Year, lovelies. See you in 2013!

via Pinterest   **Enjoyed this post? Sign up for updates... it's FREE! Laura Pepper Wu is the co-founder of 30 Day Books: a book studio. She has worked with a variety of authors to successfully promote their books, including many Amazon best-sellers. Laura is the author of wedding non-fiction guides and book marketing guides 77 Ways to Find New Readers for Your Self-Published Book
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5 Ways to Optimise Your Facebook Author Page

TGIF folks! I’m in England and taking a wee break, so to fill in for me while I’m no doubt drinking copious amounts of tea and having a mince pie or three, we have a fab guest post by F.C. Malby (Twitter: @fcmalby). Her new book Take Me to the Castle is out this week and as part of her pre-release promotions, she’s been
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Kindleboards: How to add your signature to your profile, network, and other tips

A couple of weeks ago, an author asked me about using the Kindleboards as part of her book marketing strategy. It is a strategy that I’ve never used myself, but I know some authors have had success “working the boards”. It seems that if you have the time, energy and persistence, then it can be a good way to a) network with other authors
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Getting to Grips with Goodreads: 6 actionable ideas

Today is 12-12-12. How cool is that! Once in a lifetime, right? :) Today’s quick tip is aboutGoodreads.com. It’s THE social network for readers and writers (think a literary Facebook), but do you know how to make the most of the site’s features?   Or are you just stumbling around like a headless chicken?   That’s ok, many of us are. It’s not the
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Q&A with Guy Kawasaki, author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book

Note: Today’s post is a special one – a Q&A with Guy Kawasaki, New York Times Bestseller, co-founder of Alltop.com and former chief evangelist for Apple. Guy has published both traditionally and independently. His new book, released today, is called Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book. In the Q&A I ask him about his experience with self-publishing, and his thoughts on
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Quick Tip: Are you using non-fiction angles to promote your fiction book? You should be!

Today’s quick tip is a Magic Monday Tip Throwback… If you’re not on my Magic Monday newsletter tips, you should be! Lots of short, actionable tips like this one, plus insights into stuff I just don’t talk about here! Join us here. It is often said that non-fiction is easier to promote than fiction, and I certainly don’t disagree.However, wherever there is a challenge,
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Creating blog posts & promo materials with Piktochart

I’m a visual person (hello, Pinterest!), so infographs and charts always grab my attention. Theycan be a great way to display content to your readers about your book, your self, or a theme from your book. This can be especially effective for non-fiction books, but there’s plenty of room to get creative with fiction too. I came across this great tool to help you
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Making Twitter more manageable with Twitter Lists

My two blog posts on how – and why – to use Twitter are among the biggest hits on this blog. But even for those who understand the value of this micro-blogging system, once it reaches a certain point Twitter can become daunting and unmanageable. Tweet after tweet of stuff you really don’t need to know or care about from people you may not
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