Draft2Digital.com Will Straight Up Change Your Life (If You’re a Self or Indie Pubbed Author)

Do I have your attention now, self-, indie-, and small press published authors? If not, this is important enough for me to pander so I'll put this link to Hot Guys Reading Books and Babes With Books right here because I love you and want your attention. When that's done, come back and we'll talk serious.

You back? Good! Sorry about the photo of Paris Hilton, I have no idea how that got in there since she isn't hot and staring at books isn't reading. Anyway, let's talk about Draft2Digital.com, the new masters of easy, digital publishing.

I work for and am published by an indie small press publisher. As the marketing guy for The Consortium, I am intimately involved in a lot of the details of creating attractive and exciting novels. At the same time, a whole slew of work happens behind the scenes to get my books and stories out into the world that I am only kind of aware of. In fact, most of my awareness comes from complaining and exasperated or frustrated sighs from the folks that handle the formatting for my e-books and paperbacks.

For a while, I didn't really think about it. But the more invested I become in self and indie pub culture, the more I came to realize just how lucky I had been to find myself working for and with a publisher so committed to ridiculously high quality and amazingly pretty formatting. The same, or more usually, much lesser, formatting costs other writers lots and lots of money even if they don't get scammed along the way.

So here's where the life change happens, fellow scribes. Draft2Digital.com will give you the same tremendously high level of quality formatting in both e-book and paperback at no upfront cost to you.

Let that sink in. Ultra high quality professional level book formatting -- across multiple e-reader platforms, I might add --  with no out-of-pocket expense. If that doesn't get you excited, then you have either been as lucky as I have been or are actually deceased.

What's more, it's really, really easy. I ran a novella of mine through the grinder in about ten minutes and it came out BEAUTIFULLY. That ten minutes included making an About the Author page (I just cribbed it from my Amazon bio, including the picture since I wasn't at home) and spitting out some marketing copy (granted, I do marketing copy a lot so your mileage will assuredly vary in this area).

I'd be willing to bet the next time I did it, it would take about five minutes.

And if I ever want to make changes, any changes at all, either to the manuscript or any of the information attached to it (Author Bio, Also By, Teasers for other books, price changes, whatever), I only have to do that once on D2D and it disseminates it to all the major sales channels.

I make changes to a singular site rather than making that change on Amazon, on Barnes & Noble, on iBooks, and on Kobo. The more books you publish, the more of a time saver that becomes, guys.

Oh, why didn't I mention Smashwords? Because Smashwords is a necessary evil that just found itself entirely unnecessary. You heard it here first.

And now the last and coolest bit. You know all that super cool sales information all those different sales channels are collecting for you? How many copies sold in electronic and paperback, rank in sales, star and reviews, and the rest of it? D2D aggregates all that in one dashboard. They are literally a one-stop web portal to manage your growing publishing empire.

Here's the one caveat. Draft2Digital.com is currently in beta, so there are some wrinkles to smooth. But if you were a wise person, you'd go take part in that beta and help them do the smoothing. Because once the launch starts, you'll be ahead of the "changing your life for the better" curve. Now quit messing around and go sign up before they run out of slots!