Hi, Christina. I don’t have any personal experience or tips, but maybe Writing World can help http://www.writing-world.com/business/pseudonym.shtml.

I haven’t done any book promoting in awhile, but there used to be a lot of benefit to offering your eBook free for a limited time. And there were several sites that would share those free eBooks on their blogs and newsletters. At that time, there were a lot of Fiverr Sellers offering to submit free ebooks to those sites.

Thanks for your insight, Richie!

Hey Angie,

You’ve really given out a wonderful insights to upcoming publishers.or anyone who wants to publish on kindle.

I totally agree with what you said here. Getting started is just the first step. Anyone wants to publish on Kindle should follow the tips here. Researching your niche and the topic you want to write about is the first and most important step. Don’t just go write a book and then you head over to kindle to publish it. No, it doesn’t work that way. You must first of all browse through the list of books in your category on kindle. Read book reviews just like Angie said, browse to see what people really want. When you figure this out, you can go and do a research on that and start writing a book on the topic. Just write a page a day just like Angie said. But if you hate writing or you are too busy to write, then you can outsource the job to a Ghost writer.

Remember that you have to give him or her your ideas that you want to be included in the book. And make sure your the Ghost writer you hire is the perfect one for it.

The book cover design, proof reading and every other thing can be done by outsourcing.
So get up and go do some researching on your first book.

Thanks so much Angie.
You’re a Genius.

1. I usually run one 3-day free giveaway when the ebook first launches. Only that one time though! I know some do it every few months and I think that gets people into the habit of waiting until the next time. Do it once in order to get some reviews and publicity and then leave it for paying customers only.

2. So far, I have only created short guides. The 2.99 price point has worked out really well for me. I haven’t done well when I tried to price them over that. Under $3 also opens up some further promotion opportunities as their are some sites out there that offer pub for “bargain books.”

3. I use HootSuite to schedule 3 or 4 tweets to be send throughout the month. I don’t have to worry about it and yet it stays in the public eye.

I haven’t done much more than that at this point other than always having a designated page for my relevant books on their related website. There are things like online book tours and author interview opportunities that you can do.

Best of luck, Ed!

Awesome! Best of luck.

Hi, Jill. KDP stands for Kindle Direct Publishing, https://kdp.amazon.com.

I’m just waiting for the book cover to be finished and the book will be published.

Once you get the outline done Anna, it’s smooth sailing. 🙂

The guidelines have changed over the past year. There was a time you could use PLR, previously published works and public domain information. That has changed as Amazon is trying to create a better user experience.

Follow through, Tina! You are so close. Get it published and start marketing. You’ll do great. 🙂

So I’ve spent the last two months writing another book, none of which will appear on the Internet, all chapters are unique to Amazon. This book is 30,000 words long. It took me a year of planning and putting off the writing, but once I started and did nothing else, it took 2 months. The book will be published by the end of March, 2013.

I’m not writing fiction and I’m not producing bestsellers. But I would say, so far the effort has been worth the reward. The scariest thing is that I have spent the last 2 months in something and I’ve no guarantee how well it will sell.

Formatting the books was not easy, but there are instructions you can find. Each time I formatted a book, it got easier.

I don’t want to put a link on someone else’s blog, but my name is Tina Razzell, go to Amazon and see what I have written.