Author: Shawn P. B. Robinson
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Setting up Your Google Books Account
So… at the moment, Google Books is not accepting too many authors. I say that, yet I suspect that’s not entirely true. I put my name in to be one of the Google Books authors and within a week or two I was invited to be a part of their program. I suspect everyone can…
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Setting up Your Book–KDP Print
Okay, now that your ebook is set up, you should set up your paperback. You’ll need a high resolution (300dpi minimum) cover pdf including front, back and spine. I’ve been planning on blogging on cover files, but to the best of my knowledge, it hasn’t happened yet (although there are many times I’m not aware…
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Setting up Your Book–KDP ebook Part II
Alright, in the first part of this blog, we worked through how to setup your ebook details and content on KDP. This time, we’ll take a look at setting up pricing on KDP. Pricing your book can be a little trickier than you might think. ebook Pricing On your ebook pricing page, you start to…
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Setting up Your Book–KDP ebook Part I
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is Amazon’s means to get your book up for sale on Amazon Kindle (ebook). KDP is great to work with. It’s simple to use and their customer service is incredible. In this and the following blogs, I want to offer a simple walkthrough on how to setup your ebook and print…
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Reading With Your Kids Podcast
A little while ago I had the opportunity to do another podcast interview with Jedlie Doherty and his great program, Reading With Your Kids! This program has been ranked #1 in Children and Family over the last while. In fact, I think they have managed to maintain that ranking for the entire year (2018) on…
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Book Released Today!
Hey everyone, I just wanted to share with you about my latest book release! I’m very excited to announce that Arestana III: The Harry Quest has come out in print and ebook today (Nov. 5/18)! This is the third book in the series and, to be honest, it’s my favorite of the three! It takes…
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Setting up Your eBook with Scrivener
Ahh… Scrivener. It’s such a great program! If you’re a writer, I recommend Scrivener. I’ve written a couple blogs about this software (blog 1, blog 2), so I won’t go into it too much today. What I want to cover now is to talk about how to setup your novel ebook with Scrivener in Windows.…
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Things to Consider with Vanity Publishers
Last week, we covered (briefly) how to identify a Vanity Publisher. This week, I want to cover a few considerations when looking at working with a vanity/subsidy publisher. Here are some things to consider when dealing with a Subsidy Publisher: 1. Consider each benefit they are offering: Editing Editing is a challenge–there’s no doubt about…
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Recognizing Vanity Publishers
A short while ago, I had a conversation with a Vanity Publisher. I’m looking to write and publish a book that’s very different than anything I have published so far. I don’t intend to publish this book for a year or two at least (if not longer), but I came across what I thought might…
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Setting up a Pre-Order for Your Book Part II
For those of you who are not Canadian, we just had Thanksgiving this past weekend. I am both thankful and full. Now… on to pre-orders. In our last blog (How to Set up a Pre-Order for Your Book Part I), we worked through a simple process of setting up a pre-order with Ingram (and pointed…