by Karen Brown | May 11, 2020 | Amazon KDP, Publish your book, Self-publishing
As a writer, are you wondering whether creating a second version of your book for Kindle is worth your time? Once you’ve created a book for print, it doesn’t take many tweaks to make your book available as an ebook as well as a print book. In fact, because...
by Karen Brown | Apr 20, 2020 | Amazon KDP, Publish your book, Self-publishing, Write your book
Did you know that the very first book that I wrote was “How to optimise your LinkedIn profile”? It’s been a few years now since I wrote that book, but How-to books are still very popular and are a great way of raising your profile and increasing your...
by Karen Brown | Mar 30, 2020 | Formatting, Publish your book
If you’ve been to a bookshop recently (and I know that has been difficult lately), you will have noticed that books come in all sorts of sizes. As a self-publishing author it’s your job to know the right size for your book, so that when you upload your...
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...
by Karen Brown | Feb 24, 2020 | Publish your book, Write your book
As I’ve started helping aspiring authors, I get asked a lot of questions about the process, but three questions keep popping up: how long does it take to write a book? how do you know if the book is any good? what do I do once I’ve published my book? So,...
by Karen Brown | Feb 17, 2020 | Publish your book, Self-publishing, Write your book
Recently, I’ve started to help others write their book and self-publish it on Amazon. However, before I start working with someone, it helps to get clear on what they want before we start. These are some of the questions I ask, before we even start putting pen...
