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    Update, I seem to have sold a few copies based on word of mouth, one tweet, and one update to my linkedin profile. I was not under any illusions about selling a large number initially anyway, so this is a nice bonus (alas, nowhere near the cost of the work, of course).... I wonder, if my...
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    Tonight is another round of nearly-guesswork on that description field for better spacing. Also studying various marketing methods for e-books, particularly around facebook and linkedin. Going dark for a while to get some initial trial runs started.
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    @SinisterLex, I gave it another go on a more spirited description after your advice above...at least, what I was comfortable with for now. My spacing is pretty fubar, I am using returns in that silly text field, rather than HTML breaks, so I will have to give it another try tomorrow....but in...
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    That.Was.Awesome. Thanks for the advice. It's a bit of a mindset shift for me, I really appreciate it. Honestly, in that meager little "description" field on the KDP portal, I didn't even realize they would support HTML. It's a bit odd that even a small change to meta-data (without changes...
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    Now *that* is a great cover!
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    What genre are you in @Red? I'm trying to study up on how the more successful folks are doing this....
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    It just struck me: "holy cow, I am an author!" :-)
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    Thanks @Red. Brandi did a nice job on the title, and was very patient with the amount of back and forth that it took to get the cover to that point. Looks like it just went live: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U4ZRQC6/?tag=tff-amazonparser-20 Next stop is....some reviews, something called...
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    Thanks for the reply. If you want to see a bigger version of the cover, I put a copy on my (admittedly humble) signup page: http://softwareplusplus.com/. I'm winging it a bit there, I haven't worked out all the downstream activity that is still coming.
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Deep breath.....after two straight months of late nights, writing, editing, talking to reviewers, over-analysis, obsessing, and so forth....I finally hit the publish button on Amazon. I set the initial price at $3.99, completely arbitrarily. Screen shot of my Amazon "bookshelf": I'll post...
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    After another couple weeks of reviewing, edits, some deeper content, final edits being made. I have a new appreciation for how hard the craft of writing actually is, at least, as much as I actually know about the craft anyway. I have been studying the marketing side from a variety of angles...
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    The book cover is done, at least for the kindle edition. I am planning to get another round of feedback on it, and then get the final "launch" preparations underway. I previewed the content following @ChickenHawk's advice....so far it seems like there should be no surprises (famous last...
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    I started doing some homework about the PR angle of ebooks, and ran across this site: http://www.pieceofcakepr.com/how-it-works/ Sounds again free-lunch-ish, but after discussing the topic with another PR company, it seems that ebooks in the technical domain are not as interesting as novels and...
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    Update....getting close to a finished cover, I ended up working with Brandi from http://www.ebook-coverdesigns.com/. She has been very responsive so far, and I am liking the direction. Other than that, I am reading everything I can related to ebook PR, marketing, etc. Things that I knew...
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    Another night, another set of re-structuring some of the content so that the flow is more direct and to the point. In discussions with a cover artist now, the result will hopefully be a positive one. Exported from Scrivener to epub and mobi forms in order to see the output, it seems to look...
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    Update on this topic, I received a third round of feedback on my original content, and have now wrangled all the stuff into Scrivener. More futzing around with the layout, which I suck at, but I suck at it a bit less than yesterday. I am reconsidering the pen-name bit, I think for a...
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    Unanticipated bonus question, I wonder if anyone has run into this.... All my activity around this topic has motivated my wife into exercising her writing chops. She is pondering a short book about how she has dealt with Meniere's disease. Anything she puts down would be wrapped with a...
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    Update - after reading some negative reviews of bookbaby, I decided to steer clear of them at least for now. After another long night, I am able to tune in decently non-ugly ebook text using Scrivener. Once I understood the metadata used by the compile step, it seems easy enough to control the...
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    Ok, after another evening of researching the domain....anybody have any experience with BookBaby? They are having some specials right now. It looks to be a bit of a free lunch, so I am wondering if there is a catch that I don't know about. http://www.bookbaby.com/ebook-services Also I looked...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Thanks for the help, I am just sorting out the next steps now. Just realized that there were two significant book releases in a similar niche since December 2014. Either the timing is way right, or this will crash and burn more quickly than I thought :-)

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