Author: Shawn P. B. Robinson
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Reading with Your Kids Podcast
Hey everyone, I short while ago I had the privilege of being interviewed by Child Education and Entertainer, Jedli Doherty, from Reading with Your Kids. The podcast interview went live just this last week. Here is the start of the post and a link that leads to the podcast! I’d love to hear your feedback on…
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How to Set Up an Amazon Author Page
Setting up an Amazon Author page is actually quite simple. There are two real benefits to having an Amazon Author page: 1. People can click on your author name or scroll down on the book page to get a little info about you as the author 2. You can send people to your author page…
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How to Set up a Goodreads Author Page
It’s time to explore Goodreads! Goodreads is big. Big for readers. Big for authors. Goodreads is owned by Amazon, and it’s kind of like a social networking site, just for books. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering why books would need a social networking site. Don’t they get enough contact with other books…
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The Bedtime Story that Tripled in Size
Hey everyone, this was posted on our local newspaper’s site on Friday and it goes out in print this week: Thamesford pastor creates trilogy of novels as a legacy for his sons THAMESFORDÂ –Â When illness struck father and pastor Shawn Robinson, he turned his recovery process into an environment of adventure and humour, instead of just…
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Ingram and the Self-Publisher
When I first started down the self-publishing road, I remember reading a very frustrating blog post. It told me some information I needed without helping me understand anything about what they were saying. Confused? Here’s more or less what they said: “Most Self-Publishers agree that it’s best to use both Createspace and Ingram.” That’s great,…
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KDP Print vs. Createspace Part II
So, in the first part of this blog, we looked at the pros of KDP Print. It’s a good system for getting your print books out there. Today, however, we want to see some of the limitations of KDP Print, take a look at Createspace and explore whether KDP or Createspace is a better option…
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KDP Print vs. Createspace Part I
My apologies, everyone, for being so quiet on the Self-Publishing front for a bit. I deal with a few health limitations, and I blog when I have some free energy and brain power. This last month I’ve been extra low on both of those. 🙂 Let’s try to get back at things, shall we? Amazon…
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Arestana: The Defense Quest available for sale!
Hey everyone! Sorry to be so quiet for a number of weeks, but I’ve had an unhealthy mix of being sick with being too busy. Today, however, I have the joy of announcing that Book II in the Arestana series has gone live! I encourage you to go check it out on Amazon and just…
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Getting an ISBN in Canada
We’ve covered a lot about ISBNs. In this series of blogs, we’ve looked at the following information: 1) The Ins and Outs of ISBNs 2) Why you should get your own ISBN 3) Where you get your ISBN 4) How to Get an ISBN in Canada This is now Part 4 and in this part,…
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Where Do I Get an ISBN?
In this series of blogs, we have covered: 1) The Ins and Outs of ISBNs 2) Why you should get your own ISBN 3) Where you get your ISBN (this blog) 4) How to get an ISBN in Canada So in this blog (part 3), we want to take a look at where you can…