Writing and Publishing

Formatting Your Book for Kindle

Amazon's Kindle Wireless Reading Device is becoming increasingly popular. As it does, a significant number of your book sales can come by offering your book in Kindle format. It's not difficult to make your ebook available in the Kindle format. It is best to convert using a Word document. PDF files don't convert as well.

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The Mobipocket creator "publishers edition" is the option you want. It will convert your files to a PRC document which Kindle uses. You can also download the reader so you can review the files after you convert them.

After you download Mobipocket you can build the prc file with the following steps:

1). Open mobipocket

2). Under the heading "Import from an existing file" click on the format that your original file is in (Example: Word).

3). Click the browse button and find your file.

4). Enter your file and click Import.

5). Once your file is imported click on the left mouse button "once" then click the build button at the top of the page.

That's it!

This is just one of the many handy tips and strategies you'll discover in my "Insider Secrets to Self-Publishing Your Masterpiece Course"

Promoting Your Books; Easy and Fun

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

Once you write it, how do you sell it? Promoting books is easy and fun. Here's a great author success story that I learned as a journalist when living in Branson, Missouri

Novelist Janet Dailey wrote her first book, "No Quarter Asked" in 1974 after her husband, Bill, urged her to back up her claim that she could write a better romance novel than the ones she had read. Her resulting book was accepted by Harlequin, making her the category romance giant's first American author.

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Book Writing and Publishing--Two Activities Definitely Worth Your Time

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

Is book writing and publishing worth your time? Consider this

The book publishing industry in the U.S. consists of some 82,000 book publishing firms, up from some 3000 in 1970, by R.R. Bowker's count but there are many thousands more publishers who do not bother to apply for Bowker's listing.

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Stuck? Write the Title!

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

Phil can't settle down and write the next chapter of his book -- the chapter that's due in to his publisher next week.

Jane can't start a new writing project that's tumbled from the back of her mind to the front of her mind -- back and forth, back and forth -- for years.

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Fired Up; Ready to Write

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

I am sitting here with a full to-do list in front of me. It's an important list because this is what will help me get to work on my book.

To build my list, I thought of the obstacles that have been keeping me from getting seriously started.

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Writing the Stuff of Civil Rights History

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

As writers, are we prepared to meet increased readers' demands for stories of U.S. civil rights history?

Whether motivated by new laws intended to prosecute unpunished crimes from the civil rights era or by election of this country's first black president -- to expect heightened interest in civil rights topics just makes sense.

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The Meltons of Glendora, Mississippi

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

Once the 1955 J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant trial ended in Sumner, Mississippi for the murder of Emmett Till, less than a month later in the nearby small cotton town of Glendora, a black service station attendant and father of four children was killed by a friend of Milam’s.

Elmer Kimball murdered Clinton Melton and then nineteen days later, Melton’s young wife was killed, only a week before Kimball’s murder trial opened.

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Teachers: There's a Book in You

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

Most students could use some extra help understanding the world around them and how this relates to their lessons, whether in science, history or philosophy or even calculus. What better person than a teacher to understand where these gaps might lie and to write a book to supplement learning?

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BLOG: There's a Book in YOU!

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self-Publishing Expert says:

If you've ever driven through Iowa, the tall corn field avenues can make you feel so dizzy you might think that you're falling off the edge of the Earth.

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Blog a Personal Journey to Sell Your Book

Susan Klopfer, Our official Self Publishing Expert says:

Your book is written and an audience surely awaits. But now you must capture readers. How do you get the word out and sell those books?

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