Publishing Your Masterpiece

One of the most nerve wracking part of being a self-published author is… well, the publishing! Pressing that button to put your work out there for the whole world to see. But even before you can press that all-important button, you need to put in all the information you want the world to see and ensure that they do, in fact, see it. And to do that you’ve got a bunch of decisions to make and information to gather.

One of the most important decisions is where you are going to publish.

Are you going to put your book into the Kindle Unlimited program (called Kindle Select on the author side of things) and be exclusive to Amazon? Are you going to publish wide, and if so where? The biggest online stores are Apple, Barnes & Noble (US only, but there’s a work-around for that), Kobo, and Google Play. If you do decide not to publish only with Amazon, I’d recommend you publish absolutely everywhere else because — why not?

There are pros and cons of putting your book into Kindle Select so I’m not going to go into them here (that’s a whole blog post on its own). If you do decide to publish wide, here are some pointers:

1. DON’T PANIC!
Honestly, people get really nervous when it comes to uploading their book, but all it is is filling in some forms online. Yes, every single retailer has to do things a little differently, but it’s…