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The Amazon Book Launch: How to Write a Book, Publish the book on Amazon, Sell Paperbacks through CreateSpace, and Launch a Best Seller
The Amazon Book Launch
How to Write a Book, Publish the book on Amazon, and Sell Paperbacks through CreateSpace
My name is Nicholas and I've written a bunch of books. At this point in my writing life I have probably published more than 60 books — some under my name, and some under other people's names as well as some ghost written projects. I have been working with some other authors on helping them develop their thoughts into books, and I've even written two fairly extensive books on both writing a novel and launching those novels. It’s an incredibly rich subject that needs to be fleshed out for new and seasoned authors alike. I realized at some point though that there was information overload as I looked at the various ‘get published’ titles. This book is a much more buttoned down approach, with the mindset that publishing is really a simpler task than most people realize. This is especially true in a world surrounded by all kinds of assistive technologies.
Now, I'm not going to tell you that it's easy to write a book (even though it is if you focus on a subject you intimately understand). Products like Nuance’s Dragon Dictate make your writing so much more efficient. Now, I'm not advertising or advocating their products, but boy do they make life easy. The book you are reading took me one hour to produce. One f’ing hour!
In fact, it took me longer to develop out the book cover then it did to write the entire book. I did have to go back and place several screen pictures (captures) here and there, and that took an additional 30 or so minutes. The cover itself took about 35 or 40 minutes. But on the morning I woke up and had the idea for this book, it was live on Amazon by the next morning. And that includes Amazon taking their sweet ass time in getting the book listed (which ended up being about eight hours from when I push the ‘PUBLISH’ button).
I decided to write this book after I performed an experiment. I wanted to boil everything down to its absolute smallest ingredients as they concern book publishing on Amazon. I focused on five main areas:
1. Writing the e-book
2. Designing the cover
3. Publishing the book
4. Publishing the paperback book
5. Bonus: Your Launch Strategy!
I'm going to give you the very most basic detail you will need to get your book out there and selling. Yes, you should probably get several proofreaders and an editor. Yes, you could go out and hire someone to do your book cover, or run a contest on 99designs and pay $200 or $300 to get a cover design. I usually spend $10 on Fiverr and get the thing done in a day.
There are a million books on launch strategy and capitalizing on free downloads, Kindle Unlimited, blah blah blah. Yes, all of those things are important, but I'm not going to focus on them in this book. As it comes about I will give you links that are appropriate, and some of those will be links to my projects, and some of them will be links to other people's projects.
I make my living selling fiction — I highly doubt that this book is going to be more than a rounding error in my monthly income, but it definitely serves a purpose, and I think people are tired of these long-winded, BS, self-aggrandizing books where some guy spends 95 pages trying to sell you his book, and six pages teaching you how to publish yours.
Wouldn't you love to write a book today? Literally pump that sucker out and have it listed and selling by tonight or tomorrow?
Well . . . you can. If you're willing to spend the next hour with me, I'll show you how to do it.
How to Write a Book, Publish the book on Amazon, and Sell Paperbacks through CreateSpace
My name is Nicholas and I've written a bunch of books. At this point in my writing life I have probably published more than 60 books — some under my name, and some under other people's names as well as some ghost written projects. I have been working with some other authors on helping them develop their thoughts into books, and I've even written two fairly extensive books on both writing a novel and launching those novels. It’s an incredibly rich subject that needs to be fleshed out for new and seasoned authors alike. I realized at some point though that there was information overload as I looked at the various ‘get published’ titles. This book is a much more buttoned down approach, with the mindset that publishing is really a simpler task than most people realize. This is especially true in a world surrounded by all kinds of assistive technologies.
Now, I'm not going to tell you that it's easy to write a book (even though it is if you focus on a subject you intimately understand). Products like Nuance’s Dragon Dictate make your writing so much more efficient. Now, I'm not advertising or advocating their products, but boy do they make life easy. The book you are reading took me one hour to produce. One f’ing hour!
In fact, it took me longer to develop out the book cover then it did to write the entire book. I did have to go back and place several screen pictures (captures) here and there, and that took an additional 30 or so minutes. The cover itself took about 35 or 40 minutes. But on the morning I woke up and had the idea for this book, it was live on Amazon by the next morning. And that includes Amazon taking their sweet ass time in getting the book listed (which ended up being about eight hours from when I push the ‘PUBLISH’ button).
I decided to write this book after I performed an experiment. I wanted to boil everything down to its absolute smallest ingredients as they concern book publishing on Amazon. I focused on five main areas:
1. Writing the e-book
2. Designing the cover
3. Publishing the book
4. Publishing the paperback book
5. Bonus: Your Launch Strategy!
I'm going to give you the very most basic detail you will need to get your book out there and selling. Yes, you should probably get several proofreaders and an editor. Yes, you could go out and hire someone to do your book cover, or run a contest on 99designs and pay $200 or $300 to get a cover design. I usually spend $10 on Fiverr and get the thing done in a day.
There are a million books on launch strategy and capitalizing on free downloads, Kindle Unlimited, blah blah blah. Yes, all of those things are important, but I'm not going to focus on them in this book. As it comes about I will give you links that are appropriate, and some of those will be links to my projects, and some of them will be links to other people's projects.
I make my living selling fiction — I highly doubt that this book is going to be more than a rounding error in my monthly income, but it definitely serves a purpose, and I think people are tired of these long-winded, BS, self-aggrandizing books where some guy spends 95 pages trying to sell you his book, and six pages teaching you how to publish yours.
Wouldn't you love to write a book today? Literally pump that sucker out and have it listed and selling by tonight or tomorrow?
Well . . . you can. If you're willing to spend the next hour with me, I'll show you how to do it.
103 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 6, 2015
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