It’s a new week, and with the browser issues settled at last, let’s return to hopping around the Internet. <\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The big news going around is that Amazon plans to accept<\/a> books in the Epub format. Epub is used by many non-Kindle readers, so this is a sea change in Amazon’s thinking. Previously they have only allowed books on Kindles in the MOBI ebook format.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Two writers talk about their success with self-publishing. Tara Shuler celebrates her first month<\/a>, in which she’s about to reach 300 sales of her first self-published book. That’s a fantastic amount of sales for a first month! And Julie Ortolon discusses the power of pricing<\/a>, and how she made her sales rocket by giving her book away free on Amazon. Since Amazon doesn’t let you set a price below .99 normally, she had to maneuver to reach her goal. <\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Continuing our discussion of how to best use Facebook for your writing, Emlyn Chand at Novel Publicity describes how to build a Facebook author page<\/a>, and how to get people to “Like” it. That’s always the tricky part.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 At the Kindleboards Writers Cafe, we had a long discussion of our favorite writing books. Strunk and White’s \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Katie Salidas explains her process<\/a> in developing a cover for her latest work, including how to work with cover designers. In Part Two<\/a> she discusses Do-It-Yourself covers.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 And finally, Jennifer Wylie describes how to make a book kit<\/a>, an organized set of marketing materials for your self-published work. Getting organized doesn’t come naturally to a lot of us, but your marketing efforts will go much more smoothly if you make this effort at the start.<\/p>\n That’s enough for this week. I’ll post in a couple of days with updates on sales of my first self-published short story (Spoiler: not so much).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"