This ebook tells you how to improve your book’s chances of commercial success by hitting the ground running: writing hooks into your book, choosing your words wisely, showing rather than telling the story, adding more depth to your storyline and turning factoids into facts. It explains how to proofread and format your manuscript before converting it into a digital download, and provides tips on writing the front and back matter for your book so your ebook looks professional and appears prominently in Amazon’s search engine results. Finally, it sets out the technical processes of actually digitizing your book (i.e. converting your book into an ebook) and uploading it for sale on Amazon Kindle.
Table of Content
Write Hooks Into Your Book; Hit the Ground Running; Choose Your Words Carefully; Show Don’t Tell; Add Depth and Colour to Your Characters; Check Your Facts; Have Your Manuscript Proofed; UK Standard Style and Grammar Guide; Formatting Issues; When Typesetting Your Manuscript; Write a Good Synopsis and Cover Blurb; Improve; Your Book’s Frontage; Create Active Table of Contents (TOC); Converting Your Word Document for Amazon Kindle; Uploading an Ebook for Sale on Amazon Kindle: The Technical Part
About the author
Darin Jewell is a professional literary agent and author of ‘How to Sell and Market Your Book’. He is a regular speaker in writing seminars and writing groups, and represents bestselling authors Fergus O’Connell, Michael G. R. Tolkien, Mark Leigh and Simon Brown.
Conrad Jones is a bestselling ebook author, and has been interviewed on the BBC and radio as an ebook specialist. His ‘Soft Target’ thrillers were in the top 40 for nearly 12 months, with ‘The Child Taker’ reaching #1 in thriller law books, and ‘Tank’ reaching #1 in thriller war books.
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