Generally speaking fiction books don’t use images, although I have formatted a few that do. The majority of non-fiction books have images of some sort, whether they are diagrams or photo’s for a memoirs style book. If you’re planning on formatting your book yourself then there are some things you need to be aware of […]
Nov 7, 2013
My Life as a Writer
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Mark Woods is an aspiring author and a full-time Chef just starting on his writing career. He has several short stories published or forthcoming and is working on his first full length novel. You can connect with him on his Facebook Author Page, follow his Blog and check out all his collected fiction on his Amazon page. My name is Mark […]
Sep 26, 2013
Amazon URL’s
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A very short blog post for today, but I thought it an important one to get across to you. Have you noticed the URL on Amazon when you click on a book? I work with many authors, maybe that’s obvious… 🙂 One thing most of them all have in common is they always send me […]
Sep 19, 2013
Review Advice from Bookbag
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At www.thebookbag.co.uk, we have been reviewing books for the best part of a decade. Our site contains almost 9,000 reviews and we still get a little frisson of anticipation every time we begin reading something new. And we still read reviews by others with great enthusiasm, looking for something new and interesting. Readers are like […]
Jul 16, 2013
Hyperlinked Footnotes
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If you’re publishing your eBook through Smashwords then you cannot use the inbuilt footnotes in Microsoft Word. As far as I’m aware Amazon will convert these, but Smashwords will flatly refuse. I managed to get round this by coming up with a way of keeping your footnotes, but format them slightly differently. It’s fiddly, so […]
Jul 1, 2013
Processes Prior to Publication!
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When you have finished writing your book it goes through a few processes to ensure it’s ready for publication. You proofread and edit it Professional proofreading and editing Cover design Formatting It may not be in this order, but these are the main stages of publishing a book to ensure that it’s as good as […]
May 20, 2013
Authors Beware: Amazon Could Remove Your Book!!
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When someone posts a review on Amazon it goes through a review process, personally I have never had any reviews rejected by their moderation, or removed following publication, but it seems others have! In particular there was an article published on the Forbes website entitled Amazon Tackles Review Problem, Deletes Wrong Reviews. This article was published in […]
Apr 22, 2013
Generate More Traffic to your Blog for Free!
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…and get more eBook sales in the process! If you’re an author then I assume your writing is at a standard where you can write really good articles. Do you write a blog? Maybe you write a column for a magazine or newspaper? One potential marketing opportunity that not many authors make use of is […]
Mar 18, 2013
FAQ: How to Upload your eBook to Amazon Kindle
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I get asked quite a bit how you upload your finished (and formatted) eBook to Amazon Kindle. Well in this blog post I am going to try and run through the process in very easy terms and screenshots so you can see exactly what you need to do. First things first you need to sign-up […]
