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  1. Hicks

    Resurrecting my search for an unconventional life

    INTRO 
    hi, perfect timing. i have a question about wordpress..... if you dont mind answering it that would be great. i built an online course years ago that i'm going to re-release. I built it on Serif ( a british w-design software). I now want to start a new website and add the old serif website as...
  2. Hicks

    Books of Case Studies

    if i remember rightly both: E-myth Revisited and $100 start up featured lots of case studies
  3. Hicks

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

    PUBLISHING 
    hi, i was wondering about the course that you are releasing. Technically how are you going to do this? It looks like youve used wordpress... are you going to use a membership website plug-in to restrict access to paying customers. Or are you going to be selling pdfs etc? The reason i ask is...
  4. Hicks

    Jumping on the bandwagon

    PUBLISHING 
    hi, i do not fit the criteria stipulated......at all..... but if you need someone to do a read through I'd be happy to.....kinda depends on how detailed you want it though..
  5. Hicks

    The Problem With Employment

    nice intro. there's an excellent writers section on this forum, you should check it out if you haven't yet
  6. Hicks

    How Many Pages?

    PUBLISHING 
    Interesting. It seems that non fiction is a lot less dense than fiction! I would have thought that with dialogue it would be a bit more spread out.
  7. Hicks

    How Many Pages?

    PUBLISHING 
    Thanks for starting this. Can I add another criteria? Can we add reception. So, did the reviews mention that it was too short? Were there more returns than usual? All of these are how to books. Book 1: 8795=56p ......157 words per page. Book 2: 11132=63p......175 wpp Book 3: 25147=153p.....164...
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    I'm finally joining the crowd!

    PUBLISHING 
    Hi, took a look at your books and they look interesting. I liked your book descriptions; catchy. I noticed that 2 of them are around 120 pages...is that around 60000 words? I've started researching fiction genres and have noticed that some genres 120 pages is the minimum book length...is that...
  9. Hicks

    The [Unethical] Method to Publishing...

    PUBLISHING 
    Is that it? Thinking about it I can't see how it would work unless one paid for reviews. People buy my books because they like them/need the contained info> They like them because they are good> They're good because they contain useful content> they contain useful content because I either...
  10. Hicks

    The [Unethical] Method to Publishing...

    PUBLISHING 
    very interested in following this too. I've seen others doing this but feel that what they produce looks like junk. How will you control quality. I think that if you acted as proofreader and polished them up, it could work. Also are you looking at non fiction? Please keep us posted.
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    How Many Books Will You Publish in 2014?

    PUBLISHING 
    I've been thinking about this too. If I stay in non-fiction I think about 20-30 (sounds crazy I know). But I'm thinking of moving into novels as well...would appreciate guidance if the time comes.... I have the feeling that fiction will be slower at the beginning but would speed up once you get...
  12. Hicks

    How do you format your books?

    PUBLISHING 
    Brilliant thanks for all of the feedback. I tried looking on google but got conflicting advice. I will now take a look at Smashords guide, Scrivener and Calibre. One of the problems I've had is that alot of my paragraphs are only one line long (don't ask!), and kindle indents all new paragraphs...
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    How do you format your books?

    PUBLISHING 
    Hi, I've been using people on fiverr to format my books but kind of want to do it my self now. I have tried just loading up the word file or using mobipocket converter to get a html file. I have had mixed results but usually it looks a bit funky with the ipad (in the previewer). I've searched...
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    Advice on writing "How To" E-books?

    PUBLISHING 
    To the OP. I write how to books. Maybe this may be of interest to you? https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/showthread.php/47902-Tips-I-used-to-help-kindle-sales I also consider it to be a bit of a job (a better one than most though). I think fiction is another matter though and you can really...
  15. Hicks

    E-Books aren't Fastlane. You should quit...

    PUBLISHING 
    To me when I hear that someone is achieving a large word count I don't equate that to low quality but to winning against one of the biggest foes there is; procrastination. Good for them. Well done. How do you do it?
  16. Hicks

    I Will Reach $10,000 USD monthly in Self-Publishing.

    PUBLISHING 
    LOL. I had a one star review because the 'look inside' function wasn't working (nothing to do with me)!.......on a free book.
  17. Hicks

    I Will Reach $10,000 USD monthly in Self-Publishing.

    PUBLISHING 
    Hi. Congrats on getting started. not to be a bore but: 1) I think a prerequisite of enroling in kdp select and doing free promos is that you can't have the book on any other platform (ie apple store). Please check this for your self. 2) also out interest are your books in English? Well done...
  18. Hicks

    Road to Becoming a Fastlane Author

    PUBLISHING 
    Absolutely love the progress. Fantastic. As for reviews. I've been straight up asking for them in the introduction. Granted I'm not writing fiction ...but all the same. I am thinking of releasing two versions ..the free kdp one where i say if you got this for free 'please at least review it'...
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    Tips I used to help kindle sales.

    PUBLISHING 
    Update: Regarding using questions in the tag line. For some incomprehensible reason I just put a bland 'this is a blah blah book' in the tag line....sales were a bit slow and then I noticed it.. Changed it to 'Don't you want to be able to do this wonderful thing I'm promising' type question...
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    Tips I used to help kindle sales.

    PUBLISHING 
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