The Indie Author Guide: Self-Publishing Strategies Anyone Can Use  [Paperback & e-book]

April Hamilton

 

(from the publisher) This book offers aspiring self-published authors a roadmap to success by giving them exclusive insight to the latest technology and step-by-step instructions for making the most of it. With eBooks, print on demand and the power of Web 2.0, authors and micro-publishers finally have the means at their disposal to publish their own books and go indie, just as filmmakers and musicians have done before them. This book takes you through every stage of the self-publishing process, including illustrated, detailed, step-by-step instructions on publishing options, getting organized, creating your own brand, DIY formatting for POD, editing and revising, designing your own book cover, publishing for the Kindle, publishing through CreateSpace, publishing to other eBook formats, promotion methods, and HTML.

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(from Clive Collins on Amazon) The Indie Author Guide leads​ even the chronically inept (I'm thinking of myself) along the road from desire to achievement. It seems to me that there is nothing the would-be independent author needs to know that is not covered, in detail and with examples, in this splendid guide. Even when Ms Hamilton tells her readers that she cannot offer advice on something (the legal aspects of Kindle publication, for example), she promptly offers a link to a site where such advice will be forthcoming.

Some readers might possibly be disappointed that this guide is particularly centered on independent publication through Amazon and its subsidiaries, but the truth is that Amazon is very much the big boy in this particular world now. That minor quibble aside, the vast majority of the advice in the book is as relevant to other independent publishing venues as it is to Amazon.



$8 paperback, order from Amazon.com

$9.99 Kindle, order from Amazon.com

$15.43 paperback, order from Barnes & Noble

$11.39 Nook, order from Barnes & Noble

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