Books to be written
Books to be written
A non-fictions author's how-to guide to writing, publishing & marketing you own books
About the Book
What I have learned about writing books, working with publishers and self-publishing, using LeanPub.com and getting sales through Amazon
About the Author
Bundles that include this book
Table of Contents
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- What people are saying about Books to be Written
- Preface
- Subscribe to hear more
- Foreword
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I A brave new world
- 1. What is a book?
- 2. Why write a book?
- 3. It’s digital now
- 4. Publishers
- 5. Reasons to work with publishers
- 6. Publisher checklist
- 7. Digital publishing: selling before you have finished
- 8. Copyright
- 9. Money from writing
- 10. The Little Book story
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II Writing
- 11. When you know what you want to say
- 12. Learning to write
- 13. Writers conferences
- 14. Some writing techniques
- 15. Incremental and iterative writing and publishing
- 16. The process
- 17. Beginning: Introductions and Forewords
- 18. Using quotations
- 19. The #NoProjects story
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III Production
- 20. After the writing
- 21. Copy-edit
- 22. Third-party copyright
- 23. Illustrations
- 24. Layout and page size
- 25. Book cover
- 26. File size and download costs
- 27. ISBN
- 28. Audio books
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IV Publication
- 29. Amazon
- 30. Printing
- 31. Pricing
- 32. Print pricing
- 33. Playing with price
- 34. KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited
- 35. Categories and keywords
- 36. Digital rights management
- 37. Tax
- 38. Legal deposit
- 39. Academic publishing
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V Marketing
- 40. Amazon
- 41. Reviews
- 42. Speaking
- 43. Promotions, sales, discounts and free books
- 44. More Amazon and money
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VI Tools
- 45. Word processors
- 46. Formatting tools: Pandoc and LaTeX
- 47. Citations, references and bibliography
- 48. A quick guide to Markdown
- Please review me
- Postscript
- Also by Allan Kelly
- Thank you
- Notes
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