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How to Create a New Book – Without Writing

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Just found this on Amazon: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6 (The Dresden Files Box-Set) Kindle Edition. A box-set creation or b undling of your titles can be done in e-books, print and even in audiobook format.

You don’t have to be a multi-book author before you can start “bundling” your book. One book needs only to be in print and digital format – and voilà! you have a bundle. At Amazon it’s called “Kindle Match Book”. Customers will also be able to buy inexpensive e-copies of books they ha...

Overwhelmed by Writing and Promoting?

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The best way to make more money from your author-publishing imprint is to write and publish more books. But how can you find time to write new books while you are promoting your existing work and your backlist? I have seen more than one writer crying and feeling overwhelmed with all of the things that writing and publishing – no matter if self-publishing or selling the manuscript to a trade publisher.

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Christ Robley wrote:
“The biggest hurdle to author-publishing isn’t cost, or distribut...

e-Book Reading on Smartphones in the Future?

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The publishing world was turned upside downwhen the first e-books appeared 15 – 20 years ago. The Kindle e-reader was not the first, but it is until now the most famous e-reader and helped Amazon to built their e-book imperium. When you check out the 2015 e-book reader rating, one of the many Kindle types that are now on the market, the Voyage, is the “Gold Award Winner #1” for 2015. #2 is the NOOK GlowLight, then the Kobo Aura H20, and then another Kindle, the Paperwhite. At least in No...

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Creating an Audiobook on a Shoestring

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by Patrick Jones, Author of The Wolf’s Moon

http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Wolfs-Moon-Audiobook/B013TNC3H2
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The Wolf’s Moonhas been on the market for the past three years and is still holding its own. I sent copies to my brothers only to find out unless there are pictures with the words, well… you can imagine the rest. Then, I met a fourth-grade teacher who told me she no longer had time to read novels anymore. Rachel said she did miss that part of her life, but her ki...

Audiobook Creation: The Wolf’s Moon

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http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Wolfs-Moon-Audiobook/B013TNC3H2

Howl to Create an Audiobook on a Shoestring
Patrick Jones, Author of The Wolf’s Moon

The Wolf’s Moonhas been on the market for the past three years and is still holding it’s own.
I sent copies to my brothers only to find out unless there are pictures with the words, well… you can imagine the rest. Then, I met a fourth-grade teacher who told me she no longer had time to read novels anymore. Rachel said she d...

Prestigious Great Britain-Ireland Writing Contests

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Two writing contests call for entries, due in September – one forshort stories, one for novels – attract British, or in the UK published writers. One is for previously unpublished novels, the other for short stories of well-published authors, prizes range from 5,000 to30,000 – the highest prize award every paid for a short story.

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MSLEXIA Women’s Novel Competition
MSLexia magazine is on the lookout for novels of at least 50,000 words written for adults (and young adults) in any genre by pr...

CreateSpace, Quality, LightningSource and Print Quality

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Print book guru Aaron Shepard wrote in a recent article The Limits to Quality:
“Lately, I’ve seen a lot of author-publishers ask questions like, “Which POD company should I go with to give me the highest quality—CreateSpace or Lightning Source ?”

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His answer to these questions: “That’s the wrong question. In most cases, it makes no sense to choose your POD company on the basis of quality. You don’t choose POD for its quality, you choose it for its distribution. You choose your company o...

Matchmaker for Early Book Reviews

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LibraryThing is full of great conversations about books with groups talking about every little sub-genre, every aspect of books and reading, and lots of other stuff too. It’s a site for READERS.

LibraryThing is a website that allows people to catalog their personal libraries, discover new books and connect with others who share their tastes. It is an open, collaborative project. The best reason to join for AUTHORS is to have an e-Book or print book giveaway with high possibilities for REV...

7 Tips to Promote Your YouTube Channel

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300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, which means you have quite some competition. Here are seven steps you can take for a better chance to be seen – and heard – and to increase your subscriber numbers.

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Make the Most out of Your Video Descriptions
Put a link to your website and your social accounts in your description – best is an “About.me” link where you can list the links to all your web appearances – and ask people to click! Important: place the most important te...