Publishing your book is super cool. Most of us who are self-publishing use the KDP/Amazon publishing site. With just a little instruction the process is very smooth.
In this training learn how to upload your paperback book to the KDP/Amazon site for publishing on Amazon. Using my new book, European Country Maps Coloring Book I take you through the upload and publishing steps.
In this training, I cover adding your details, content, rights, and pricing: • Book Title • Series • Author & Contributors • Book Description • Keywords • Categories • ISBN • Print Options • Uploading your Manuscript and Book Cover • Launching Previewer • Territories • Pricing & Royalty • Publishing • Followup Email
In this book, you will learn about and color the countries of Europe in European Country Maps Coloring Book, 46 Blank, Outline, and Detailed Country Maps for Coloring, Home, and Education. Includes France, United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Spain, and 40 more. Learn and color blank, outline, and detailed maps of the European Countries.
The blank outline maps are great for learning the geography and layout of each country. Each country map is presented in two ways, a map of their administrative districts or political borders, including capitals and several cities. Plus, a blank outline map of each country. Many maps include the surrounding border countries.
Perfect for coloring, home, and education. Students can trace the outlines of the map, study and highlight countries and features on the blank maps. Maps can be photocopied for sharing with your children or students. A great resource for students and teachers.
The printable, blank, outline maps in this handbook can be freely photocopied by a teacher or parent for use in a classroom or for home school lessons.
Blank Outline and Detailed European Countries Included:Albania Map, Andorra Map, Austria Map, Belarus Map, Belgium & Luxembourg Map, Bosnia and Herzegovina Map, Bulgaria Map, Croatia Map, Cyprus Map, Czech Republic Map, Denmark Map, Estonia Map, Finland Map, France Map, France, Administrative Districts, France, Provincial Boundary, Germany Map, Greece Map, Hungary Map, Iceland Map, Ireland Map, Italy Map, Kosovo Map, Latvia Map, Liechtenstein Map, Lithuania Map, Luxembourg Map, North Macedonia Map, Malta Map, Moldova Map, Monaco Map, Montenegro Map, Netherlands Map, Norway Map, Poland Map, Portugal Map, Romania Map, Russia Map, Serbia and Kosovo Map, Slovakia Map, Slovenia Map, Spain and Portugal Map, Spain Map, Sweden Map, Switzerland Map, Ukraine Map, United Kingdom Map, Vatican Map
All of these Adobe products are part of the Adobe Creative Suite. If you are serious about creating books or graphic design projects then you will be using the Adobe products. You rent these products on a monthly or yearly basis.
• The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko, I loved this book. It takes you through the development of the Western USA dam system and the amazing story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kenton Grua. It is a great read.
Self-Publishing SECRETS Checklist Step by Step, Create, Publish and Launch Your Book
The Self-Publishing SECRETS Checklist takes you on a clear step-by-step process from writing to creating, publishing, and launching your book. This is the companion workbook to Self-Publishing SECRETS .
Self-Publishing Book Launch Checklist & Swipe File Launch Your Book Today
The Self-Publishing Book Launch CHECKLIST & Swipe File contains all the pre-during-and post-launch checklists I used to deliver a #1 Kindle and #2 paperback Amazon ranking for my recent book. I also include the social media swipe files and a step-by-step case study of the launch. I wrote this guide while I was launching my book.
52 Ideas to Inspire Your Business Blog Weekly Questions to Spark Your Blogging Creativity
Get your business blogging going with our book, 52 Ideas to Inspire Your Business Blog
Jump start your business marketing with blogging. Blogging is one of the easiest ways to write about your business and get your message out.
The idea for our new book is that it is often difficult to continually come up with and write relevant copy on your business or service. It can be a pain in the neck, to continually come up with new ideas to write about, but it is not a pain to answer an occasional question on what you do. So the concept is to have a series of questions that you answer once a week about your business or service. The questions, along with the answers on your business or service, are then posted to your blog, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, or whatever social media platform you use. The questions prompt you to talk about what you do and how you do it.
52 Ideas to Inspire Your Business Blog offers a year of weekly blog posting ideas. Read each week’s question or idea, then answer and post it. My hope is that this will spark and jumpstart your writing. After a year, the rhythm of posting should be built into your schedule and you will know how to do it. Feel free to go off in your own direction.
Self-publishing your book is just the coolest thing. Self-publishing has been around for years but more along the lines of vanity presses. Now self-publishing actually means you are the publisher and you are in control. For me, this new era of self-publishing means print-on-demand through sites like KDP/Amazon.com or Lulu.com or e-books through Kindle/Amazon or devices like the Kobo or Nook. We produce our books and we control them. We decide how much money we want to make, the rights, and pretty much how they sell.
1. The Type of Book You Are Making One of the first decision you will need to make is what kind of book are your releasing. Is it a text only fiction book, a picture book, a non-fiction how to book, a children’s book, a paperback, an e-book, or both the list is pretty big. Depending on what you decide will determine where you publish and the process you will go through to make the book. With all of the options today you can very often pick several, and I recommend you do make different kinds of books. I often start with the print version and then move to e-book, but the other way around works fine also.
2. Deciding on the Publishing Platform At the top of everyone’s list is Amazon.com. Pretty much the largest distributor of books on the planet. Amazon has two options. You can go with print-on-demand paperback through their KDP/Amazon division or e-book with KDP/Kindle. Some books work great on both platforms and some a little better on one. Kindle works great on books that are pretty much mostly text. But more and more picture books are going that way also. Generally, most people recommend setting up your own book accounts on Amazon and for all of the other platforms using a service like BookBaby.com or Smashwords.com
3. Book Design and Production Book design and production involves the look and feel of your book. If you are going with a printed book you have tons of layout and design options to choose from. Depending on which platforms you choose you can really have a lot of fun with the design and layout. If you go with KDP you are producing a black/white or color paperback. If you select a site like Lulu.com or Blurb.com you have many different binding, printing, and cover options.
Going electronic you have the e-book or pdf routes or both. E-book usually means a Mobi file on Kindle with Amazon.com or e-pub on sites like Kobo, Nook or iTunes. Instead of Mobi I would recommend using the new Kindle Create software for creating your ebook. It is fantastic. There are actually about 80 different platforms but most people focus on about 10. The e-book route can also be a little more limiting in terms of design but in terms of distribution, it is global. It is amazing, one little text file and you can sell all over the planet.
Book design and production includes designing and laying out all your book parts. Cover, title page, table of contents, chapters, references, resources, bios, all the parts. It also means setting up all of your publishing and marketing accounts.
4. Developing Your Title, Your title is one of the most important tasks you will undertake in finishing your book. Your title asks a question and should then answer it for the reader. If you are producing a non-fiction book we should know what your book is about from the title. Using Google, Amazon and YouTube search we should be able to narrow down your title ideas to a key phrase. Your book needs to stand on its own when you are not there to explain it.
5. Cover Designs Selling your books on-line these days usually means your readers will never pick it up. They won’t discover it in a bookstore or sitting on a shelf. It may never exist in paper. Very often all we get to see is a thumbnail of the cover. Making that cover work at a small size is super important. Your title is one of the most important tasks you will undertake in finishing your book. Your title asks a question and should then answer it for the reader. If you are producing a non-fiction book we should know what your book is about from the title. Using Google, Amazon, and YouTube search we should be able to narrow down your title ideas to a key phrase. Your book needs to stand on its own when you are not there to explain it.
6. Working with the Print-on-Demand Publishers and Amazon.com There are some technical aspects to book publishing and loading them up to the distribution sites is one of them. We work with you to produce your book in the correct formats for each site. Is it the right size, are the pictures set up correctly, are all the links for all your connections set up correctly. Is the cover graphic correct, are all the internal graphics linked right, do you have a good book and author bio description, how about your keywords. Each site is similar but different.
7. Developing a Web-Based Marketing Plan Your book marketing starts almost the day before you need it. You start writing, you start marketing. Set up a blog, get your FaceBook group going, your Pinterest, your Twitter account, how about building your mailing list so that you have some fans ready to buy when you are done.
8. Using Social Media, YouTube and Traditional Marketing Traditional advertising for self-published books is almost non-existing. It is all about Social Media, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. But some of the traditional marketing still exists and should be looked at when marketing your book. It is kind of the wild west out there in terms of what platforms to use and how to use them. And to make it more fun it changes every day. A great way to market your book is using Facebook Live and on-line live streaming. With tools like Facebook live and Steamyard you can reach the world through live video. Take your message to the world and sell your books at the same time.
9. Developing Your Book Blog One of the most powerful platforms for marketing your book is having a book blog. On a blog, you can talk about the characters, build an e-mail list, have your media kit and bio. Many people now write their books right in their blog, using all of their new content to attract Google, readers, and fans. Your blog becomes the center of everything about your book. It is the hub for all your social media and other marketing efforts. It is key and I guide you through the process of setting one up.
10. Re-purposing Your Content This is last but one of my favorites. You have written your book, you have all this cool new text, what else can you do with it. If you are making a non-fiction book about your business how about a workbook to go along with it. Take your book, record it and you have an audiobook. Make a PowerPoint presentation, record it and you have a video, you have a course. Are there images that can be turned into products on sites like CafePress.com and Zazzel.com? Could you turn the book into a course, our use it to attract consulting clients. The list goes on and on.
Promote your posts Rather than simply writing content for your blog, you will get much more traction by posting a bit of the content elsewhere in order to lead readers back to your blog postings.
Send the first few paragraphs to your subscriber list with a “read full article” with the permalink leading back to the blog post.
Post the permalink on social media. It’s likely you have several social media accounts. These are ideal places for you to position your blog posts.
Take short snippets from your blog post and use those as tweets. Within a 5 – 10 minute period, you can literally write 25 tweets, if you simply take the content out of your blog post.
Use hashtags to gain more traction. For example, if you have a book on dog training, you could use #dog #dogtraining #dogs as some of the hashtags.
Post on Social Network groups you belong to that permit you to do so. Not all groups allow you to self-promote, so be sure to adhere to the group rules.
Post the blog post to Slide Share. It’s amazing how quickly you can get hundreds of views for your posts on Slide Share. Invite readers to go to your blog to read more posts you’ve written.
Post the full article on 3 – 6 top article directories. In the resource box you can direct readers back to your blog with something like, “For more articles by _____________ go to _____________.”
Add your post to blog communities. There are plenty of locations that allow you to promote your blog post.
Add images specific to the topic you are writing about. In the case of your book, an image of the book cover is always a great idea. Pixabay is a great resource for royalty-free images
Stay on top of comments posted about the post and respond in a timely manner. The more interaction you have with your readers, the better.
Keyword optimize your post and headline. This is essential for getting the most out of your efforts.
Add a video to your post. More and more every day, video plays an important role in gaining interest and traction for your efforts. A short 30-second video can do wonders for generating interest.
Ask readers to take some type of action at the end of the post. This could be to leave a comment, opt-in for something, buy your book, or simply hit one of the social media share buttons. The more you can get readers to take action, the better.
Have various ways visitors to your blog can get on your subscriber list. Offering something that solves a specific problem will generate more opt ins than something that is too generic.
Put portions of your blog post in an autoresponder (AR) sequence leading back to the original post by way of the permalink at the end of the AR message.
With high-trending topics, make the media aware of your post. You never know what can happen as a result. Include an invitation for other bloggers, media, and those with a large reach to interview you for their podcast show, blog, or be a featured expert on a virtual summit.
Bruce Jones is an author and creator of over 50 books. Bruce also creates software mapping products for business, government, non-profits and home-school education. Bruce also creates online courses in self-publishing and how-to-create and market online products. Read more on the About Page
