by Karen Brown | Mar 7, 2022 | Book covers, Publish your book
My question today is: Should you make your own book covers? I published my first book on Amazon in 2012. I was called How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile and whilst at the time I thought it was the bee’s knees, with hindsight it was terrible! One of the many...
by Karen Brown | Jan 17, 2022 | Book covers, Copyright, Publish your book, Self-publishing
Last week I had the less than delightful experience of getting an email from Amazon. They were pulling one of my books because someone had reported a Trademark infringement. As you can imagine, I was mortified but couldn’t understand what had happened and how it...
by Karen Brown | Jan 9, 2022 | Book covers, Book editing, Formatting, Publish your book, Self-publishing
How do you make a self-published book not look “self-published” was a question that I was invited to answer on Quora, however, the real question was how do you make a self-published book look professional. I’ve read a huge amount of books and many of...
by Karen Brown | Jan 2, 2022 | Book covers, Book editing, Formatting, Publish your book, Self-publishing
I was writing the answer to a Quora post when the idea for this post came up. The question was around publishing a book so that it looks professional, but to me it was about the investments you should make in your book to make it look professional. Amazon have made...
by Karen Brown | Mar 9, 2020 | Book covers, Publish your book
In days gone by, book covers were easy: they were simply a coloured hardback book with gold leaf printing on the spine and front cover. These days you have a range of materials and images that are available as book covers and not only that. Now books come in the shape...
