The Ebook Revolution Survival Guide

This short guide is packed with simple, step-by-step instructions to help indie authors wade through the labyrinth of confusing and something conflicting information about epublishing available on the Web. You’ll find useful tips on how to create, upload, and market an ebook gleaned from my personal experience and email exchanges among 200+ print-published authors at various stages of self-publishing their backlist as ebooks.

What Inspired this Guide

When I began my journey to reclaim the rights to my out-of-print romance novels and republish them myself as ebooks, I looked around and found a mind-boggling amount of information at various Websites, blogs, and message boards. Anyone who’s read my bio knows I dyslexic, so reading, much less understanding, that volume of written information was literally impossible for me. To survive, I did what I do when researching a novel: I started shooting off emails to experts — in this case other print-published authors traveling the same path — asking for precise, easy-to-understand instructions.

We all quickly realized that while I struggle with things like formatting, I excel when it comes to marketing. Soon, the authors I’d turned to for technical help were turning to me for marketing tips. This guide combines what I learned from my tech-savvy friends with the marketing strategies I used to get my ebooks into the Top 100 Storewide at Amazon.

Available for $2.99 at Amazon, B&N, and Smashwords. Coming soon to the Sony Reader Store, and the Apple iBookstore.

The Companion Guide

I do cover formatting in my guide with simple step-by-step instructions. However, some of my marketing strategies require really high-level formatting skills for adding hyperlinks, images, bookmarks, and multiple styles. Since I’m a perfectionist in the extreme, I turned to Pam Headrick, a former bookstore owner who happens to have an amazing knack for understanding technical minutiae. My cry for help turned into a whole new career for Pam, who quickly realized that if she could format one of my complicated ebooks, she could format any ebook.

For anyone tackling their own formatting, whether it’s straightforward or highly complex, I recommend The Ebook Revolution Formatting Guide by Pam Headrick.

Available for $2.99 at Amazon, B&N, and Smashwords. Coming soon to the Sony Reader Store, and the Apple iBookstore.

For anyone who’d rather hire a formatter to do it for them, I recommend hiring Pam. You can contact her through her Website, A Thirsty Mind.