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Books to be written

A non-fictions author's how-to guide to writing, publishing & marketing you own books

Books to be written
Allan Kelly

Do you want to write a book? Do you have something to say? Something you want to share with the world?

Have you realised that the writing is the easy bit?

Writing and self-publishing has never been easier - digital has revolutionised how we write, publish and sell books. Digital tools mean you can start selling you book long before you have finished

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What I have learned about writing books, working with publishers and self-publishing, using LeanPub.com and getting sales through Amazon

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Allan Kelly

Allan Kelly is a product leader with deep experience of digital product strategy and delivery. Successes include project rescue, business turn around and smoothing client-supplier relationships.

He creates structure, institutionalises operational excellence and builds high-performing cultures using product thinking, agile working and OKRs.

Allan is a regular conference speaker and author of multiple books including the best selling "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile", "The Art of Agile Product Ownership" and "Business Patterns for Software Developers" (which he wishes he'd entitled "Strategy patterns for software products").

Print versions of his books are also available - where you will also find his books with Apress and Wiley.

For more about Allan checkout his website and blog.

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Preface

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Foreword

  1. IA 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

  1. IIWriting

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

  1. IIIProduction

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

  1. IVPublication

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

  1. VMarketing

40.Amazon

41.Reviews

42.Speaking

43.Promotions, sales, discounts and free books

44.More Amazon and money

  1. VITools

45.Word processors

46.Formatting tools: Pandoc and LaTeX

47.Citations, references and bibliography

48.A quick guide to Markdown

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Also by Allan Kelly

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