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    How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY
    How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY
    How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY
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    How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY

    By Darin Jewell and Conrad Jones

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    This ebook tells you how to improve your book’s chances of commercial success by hitting the ground running: writing hooks into your book, choosing your words wisely, showing rather than telling the story, adding more depth to your storyline and turning factoids into facts.  It explains how to proofread and format your manuscript before converting it into a digital download, and provides tips on writing the front and back matter for your book so your ebook looks professional and appears prominently in Amazon’s search engine results. Finally, it sets out the technical processes of actually digitizing your book (i.e. converting your book into an ebook) and uploading it for sale on Amazon Kindle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnion Bridge Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9780857280626
    How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY

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      Book preview

      How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY - Darin Jewell

      How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY

      Contents

      Write Hooks into Your Book

      Hit the Ground Running

      Choose Your Words Carefully

      Show Not Tell

      Add Depth and Colour to Your Characters

      Check Your Facts

      Have Your Manuscript Proofed

      UK Standard Style and Grammar Guide

      Formatting Issues When Typesetting Your Manuscript

      Write a Good Synopsis and Back Cover Blurb

      Improve Your Book's Frontage

      Create an Active Table of Contents (TOC)

      Converting Your Word Document for Amazon Kindle

      Uploading an Ebook for Sale on Amazon Kindle: The Technical Part

      About the Authors

      Other Works by the Authors

      How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook IN A DAY

      THAMES RIVER PRESS

      An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company Limited (WPC)

      Another imprint of WPC is Anthem Press (www.anthempress.com)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2013 by

      THAMES RIVER PRESS

      75–76 Blackfriars Road

      London SE1 8HA

      www.thamesriverpress.com

      © Darin Jewell and Conrad Jones 2013

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced

      in any form or by any means without written permission of the publisher.

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted in accordance

      with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All the characters and events described in this novel are imaginary

      and any similarity with real people or events is purely coincidental.

      A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN 978-0-85728-062-6

      Cover design by Sylwia Palka

      This book was produced using PressBooks.com.

      HOW TO PUBLISH AND SELL YOUR EBOOK IN A DAY

      How to polish your work and build marketing hooks into it, add depth to your characters, format and convert your book into ebook format

      There has never been a better time to publish and sell your own book. Despite being excited about uploading your book and getting it out there on sale, stop for a few hours and read the pointers in this guide. They will make you think about your book as a commercial product, which is essential before you publish. Hindsight is a great thing and we are offering you the opportunity to benefit from our experiences so that you can get it right the first time around. Using our years of experience in the digital book world, you can make your manuscript as good as it can be and avoid some of the pitfalls which are easy to stumble into.

      Before formatting your book, you should consider certain ways in which you can amend your work in a few simple ways, which will greatly improve its marketing potential. Whether you are writing for pleasure or for commercial gain, polishing your product before you upload will pay dividends very quickly. There are some crucial mistakes and omissions that are often made by self-publishing authors and this guide will help you to identify and avoid them. It will also give you some essential marketing tips, which you should incorporate into your manuscript before you publish it as a digital download. It has already taken hundreds of hours to create your book, and by spending a few more hours you can make it as marketable as possible. You will increase its chances of reaching its intended market, attract more readers and ensure its commercial success by:

      writing hooks into your book

      hitting the ground running

      choosing your words wisely

      showing rather than telling

      adding depth, colour and sense

      turning factoids into facts

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