Author: Shawn P. B. Robinson
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Contest to Win a Free Book!
Contest!! All right… so here’s the situation. A long time ago, I wrote a book that I never published. I absolutely love the book and often thought about publishing it, but never did. The book is a cross-over book between my Jerry the Squirrel Series and my Arestana series (kids/MG Humorous Fiction). If you know…
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NetGalley for Reviews!
 Sometimes it can be hard to get reviews, yet we all need them! There are many sites out there that offer review services. They vary in price and benefit. I’ve blogged on BookSirens and BookSprout as two great options, but today I wanted to post a really quick blog about NetGalley.  NetGalley is…
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A Simple Way to Publish Your Book as a Hardcover
 For a long time, I didn’t produce hardcover copies of my book. There were two reasons why. First, I didn’t get around to it. I don’t have anything else to add to that other than to hang my head in shame. Second, I found it painfully complicated. I just couldn’t figure out how to…
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BookSirens for Reviews!
Getting reviews for your book can be one of the big challenges authors face. We all know that readers often either look through the reviews for a book, or they look at the number of reviews left and the average rating to help them make their decision. So, we obviously want reviews! To give an…
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Draft2Digital’s Print Option
On April 30/2020, Draft2Digital (D2D) announced their print beta option was live (at least that’s when I got the email… sometimes I’m late to the game). All of my books are on Ingram and Amazon, so I did not really see a benefit to using D2D for more print options. However, I was curious. Because…
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Publishing ebooks with Apple Books
Up until recently, only Mac users had a simple way to publish ebooks directly to Apple books. This all changed in early May 2020, when Apple did something that Apple tends not to do… they considered that there might be people out there who aren’t using an Apple product. I know what you’re thinking… “Wow!…
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Ebooks and Reflowable Text
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “I had hoped to find someone willing to talk about Reflowable Text today!” Â Well, all your dreams have come true! Â If you’re not sure what reflowable text is, consider the opposite: Â If you ever try to read an ebook without reflowable text, it’s a frustrating…
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Publishing with Draft2Digital
There are loads of sites out there that will help authors get their books out to a lot of the ebook sites. Many of them are quite good, but Draft2Digital (or D2D) is one of the great ones. Here are a couple reasons for using D2D: 1) They can get your books out to a…
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The New Series Is Out!
Hey everyone! I just wanted to take a moment today and let you all know that my newest series, Annalynn the Canadian Spy… is out! Books 4-6 came out today across the world and on parts of Jupiter and Mercury. It’s a series about a 10-year-old Canadian girl who gets hired to be a spy!…
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Enabling Promotions with Kobo
  All right! After a depressingly long absence from the world of blogging, I’m going to start back in with a short blog!   So… here we go with a blog about Kobo Promotions!   A lot of authors publish exclusively with Amazon. There are benefits to this (Amazon does it’s best…