KDP - How To Self - Publish Your Book On Amazon - The Beginner’s Guide: The key elements for Independent (Indie) author success

by Ged Cusack

Do you want to publish a book on Amazon that reaches more readers and sells?
Do you like writing but the thought of publishing scares you?
If you don’t know much about publishing, don’t worry. We are going to start at the beginning.
There are several Key elements to successful publishing:
Your Commitment – There’s an old saying “when your book is 90% written you are only half way there.”
Identifying your genre – Knowing your market helps to target to that market.
A Launch schedule – putting all the elements in the right order can save you a lot of stress.
The book content – Your reader will respect quality content.
The book cover – It turns out that readers do judge a book by its cover.
The book title – Matching the title with the cover is one of your main book marketing tools.
The Amazon book description – This is part of your sales funnel and a chance to help sell your book.
Your media pack – As an indie author you need to be ready to market your book and yourself.
Amazon reviews – Seen by some as the Holy Grail, these can make or break your book sales.
Amazon Book Ads – Targeted marketing to readers can give you a great return on your investment.
Other book formats – Once you have your content why stop at Kindle books?
Grab this book now and let’s get started on your publishing journey.

209 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 14, 2018

About the author

Hello

As a child of the sixties, I've always had a thirst for learning and knowledge.

Moving to New Zealand at the end of 2004 (After 22 years as British Military Engineer),I am enjoying the different pace of life.

Since moving to New Zealand I have pursued many ventures including Business Coaching, Trading Stock Options, Trading CFD’s, Trading Foreign Exchange, Trading Futures and project management.

I realized early on in my life, that I have a busy brain. Detailed notes and systems allow me to constantly move between projects.

Realizing that other people can benefit from my systems and guides, I have begun to consolidate information for other busy minds.

I previously spent 4.5 years working in post-earthquake Christchurch where my roles played to my strengths of project management, problem solving and systematization.

At the end of that last contract I decided to have a break from the corporate environment and focus on e-commerce and trading.

I had several friends and former colleagues ask what I was doing and how they too could start an Amazon business.

After many hours of guiding those people (Involving providing schedules and identifying where these people where at) I decided to systematize this guidance.

My Systems eventuated into my first book:
"FBA - Building an Amazon Business - The Beginner's Guide: Why and How to Build a Profitable Business on Amazon." myBook.to/booklinkerFBAlink

Spurred by that first success I have begun writing a series of Beginner's Guide including:

"A Beginner's Guide Profitable Stock Options Trading: Lessons I learned losing $100,000 to accelerate your trading success".
myBook.to/StockOptions

and my most recent addition

"How to Choose a Writing Coach - A Beginner's Guide: Ensuring your best chance for publishing success." getBook.at/Chooseawritingcoach


I have also started writing an inspirational series of books, beginning with:

"Gratitude for Happiness: How to exercise your gratitude muscles." myBook.to/GratitudeforHappiness

I hope you enjoy reading the books as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Reviews

[C. Yvette Spencer · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the challenging world of self-publishing, authors who are searching for answers can easily become overwhelmed with all the online resources. Some say it’s easy to self-publish, others claim it’s complicated, and some contradict wisdom. It’s enough to make you want to throw up your hands. Don’t! I am a self-published author who has given advice to others. But I must say that I was thoroughly schooled while reading this well-written, obviously researched, informative book. Never have I read a resource that touched on every topic, leaving no guessing or a purpose to search for help beyond these pages. This book guides, defines, breaks-down, and lays-out a step-by-step guide that will help you stop wasting unnecessary time, money, and plan your writing journey down to the final second. I highly recommend this book to self-published authors, and a must have for those aspiring writers who are starting out. Get this book and save yourself a lot of stress. You won’t regret it! It will become your self-publishing bible.

[Richard Peck · Rating 3 out of 5]

For someone completely green to self-publishing, this is a good starter book. There is a lot of useful information to help you view your work like a marketing pro, not just an author. I made a nice "to do" list of options to consider when I publish my own (first) book, hopefully by the end of the year. A fair amount of grammatical faux pau throughout the book, but don't let that distract you. If you are on the fence as far as self-publishing goes, this provides an informative overview. Recommended.

[John Hardin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book very well written an informative. I would recommend this book to anyone considering a career or side hustle as an indie author

Great book very well written and very informative. I would recommend this book to anyone considering as an indie author or co-author. I like the summary in the back of the book makes it easy to go back and study the points you find most helpful. I a!so liked the checklists..being retired military, I found these very useful!

[Ramona · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a well written book, that is full of information for people looking to write and publish their own books on Amazon. I would highly recommend this book to everyone interested in writing books. I won this book through a giveaway on Goodreads website.

[ندىٰ عادل · Rating 3 out of 5]

i don't know about the book but alot of promising reviews are there:)
i just wonder how is it allowed on goodreads to review a book which i didn't even read?! this system need to get fixed!

[LYNDA SCHMITT · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thorough but easy to follow

Thorough enough to feel you were able to fully understand enough to tackle the tasks at hand. Yet simple enough you don’t get lost in the details.

[Florence · Rating 4 out of 5]

simple and to the point