So, Amazon appears to have finally worked things out. As I mentioned in my earlier post , I had moved three of my print titles over to KDP P...

UPDATE, Sept. 9, 2018: Amazon has changed things. They have cut off being able to input the ISBN and move the files from CreateSpace, so at...

I finished the X-Ray set up for all my titles! It was actually a fair amount of work, not difficult but a little tedious. Electronic housewo...

Not really. I mean, I won't be x-raying people. But Amazon's KDP platform now offers the ability to create ae edit X-Ray files for K...

I've been running two promotions this month, one to advertise that Turnabout is only 99¢ (for a few days only) and one to advertise that...

So, now that I have mastered InDesign, I am working on putting out my books in print, via CreateSpace. This is going to be a fair amount of ...

Kindle Scout is the program Amazon started when they killed the ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) contest. The deal with Kindle scout ...

Amazon is certainly not the only player in the self-publishing game, but it is dominant, and it does offer a print option, which is rare. Sm...

From Wikimedia Commons: by Daniel Maclise_-Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster...

The X-Ray feature on Kindle is really handy for epic books with a large cast of characters or those stories that span years, where a charact...

Of course, it's only the proof copy. I loaded the version that 52Novels sent me onto my Kindle so I could  do one last final proof, esp...

The manuscript is still at the proof reader's but it's due at the conversion house next week. It usually takes them anywhere from fo...

A very confusing aspect of American English is that the indigenous tribes of North America are known collectively as Indians because in 1492...

I have the converted copy of Shades of Empire  back from the conversion house and I'm proofing one last time. In honor of that, I have s...

One reason I like Smashwords is it gives you the option of also selling your ebooks in other retailers, specifically the Apple iBooks and S...

eBooks make self-publishing much easier. Both print and ebooks offer formatting challenges, but in the print world, the truly hard part is g...