Category Archives: Self Publishing

Writing Your First Draft of a Short Book for Kindle

Before you write your first draft, make sure you’ve chosen a great topic, researched, organized your research and thoughts, and have created your outline. Have you done all that? Great!

You’ve done the preliminary work, so pat yourself on the back. You are now ready to go ahead and write your first draft. There are no excuses. Now that you’ve created your outline and done your research, the book is practically going to write itself. Seriously – it’s super easy to write the book at this point.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never written a book before in your life. You absolutely can and will succeed with writing your own Kindle book. Not only that, but it will be well organized and very valuable to your audience if you take the time to organize and outline.

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Optimizing Your Kindle Book’s Title

Many Kindle authors seem to just pick their titles haphazardly. They don’t really think about it – they just assume that as long as the title basically says what needs to be said, they’re good to go. I urge you to pay more attention to your title than that, if you want to be successful on Kindle.

Your title is something that should capture people’s attention. You really want them to take more than a short glance at your book because your title is so forgettable. You want them to become so interested, based on your title, that they can’t help but go on to read the description. Books with poor titles often go unnoticed – and that is not what you want to happen to your book.

Your title is also something of a promise. You want people to get a certain feeling after they read it. You want to capture them in a way that holds their attention. I can’t say it enough– you’re not just a writer anymore, you’re also a marketer. If you were a marketer already, now it’s time to put what you know into practice. Trust me when I say that you know more about marketing than most wannabe Kindle authors out there.

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Jay Boyer Interview – Write & Publish Children’s Books

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jay-boyerThe children’s book market is huge and the great thing about it is you can create simple books that propel #1 best-selling status.

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Short Kindle Books: Brainstorm and Research

First, do some preliminary research and get an idea of what sells well on Amazon, it’s time to choose your topic. Hopefully, you’re feeling pulled toward a particular topic already since you’re fresh off your research.

You may want to double-check yourself, though. Is your chosen topic going to be profitable? Are there plenty of opportunities for you to write additional books related to the topic?

Do you enjoy the topic enough to write about it consistently? If you’re passionate about a topic and have some knowledge on the topic even without research, that will shine through in your writing. It will also make it easier and faster for you to write. This is easy for me to write because I enjoy inspiring new writers and because I’ve written so many books over the years that the process is like second nature to me.

It can also be helpful if the topic you choose can be easily expanded into a series of books. Series books tend to sell well because people feel compelled to buy the next one in the series. At the very least, make sure the topic you choose has room for multiple book releases even if they aren’t in a series.

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Choosing a Great Niche for Short Kindle Books

Let’s talk about choosing a great niche or topic to write about. I’m not going to spend a huge amount of time on this part. I mention and include this because I would feel remiss if I didn’t.

I feel I should mention niche selection because, while a good niche can mean success, a poor niche can mean utter failure. Just because you like a certain topic doesn’t mean everyone else is interested in buying a book about it. I don’t want you to write your heart out on a topic that will never sell. That’s just not the way to go—unless writing is strictly a hobby for you. And I think you’re reading this right now because it’s not just a hobby for you.

Again, you have to make sure the topic you choose is selling well on Kindle already. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Follow what’s already working and already selling. If you publish on a hot topic, the chances are good that you’ll probably get some sales.

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