3:5 / Publish & Promo / Prep to Publish

This week on The Write Focus:

We have the MS finished. We’ve revised. Our first readers cry and gush over our story. They think it’s great. We’ve received the cover from the professional designer, and it’s glorious: it captures the reader’s imagination and the story and the genre.

We are ready to publish.

It’s a simple matter of clicking a few buttons, right?

Not quite.

We have business details to gather. We have to format the MS. Then we can publish and plan our promotions.

• 1:20 Coming Next: Enhancements
• 2:25 Introduction
• 2:35 Business Details ~ Blurb (long info) / Tax ID / ISBN / Copyright
• 9:52 Formatting ~ headings / table of contents / front matter / back matter
• 11:50 Publishing on KDP and D2D ~ Metadata / Content / Previewer / Pricing
• 13:37 Promotions ~ Media presence / types of posts / Ads and ROI / Launch
• 16:30 Think Outside the Box.
• 17:32 Next Week
• 17:45 Inspiration / Isabelle Allende

Resources

Fiction Sales Copy by Dean Wesley Smith

Free Amazon Book Description Tool from Kindlepreneur

Internal Revenue Service / Tax Identification Number

Bowker / ISBN

Copyright / US Copyright Office

Amazon Key Word Descriptors :: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201298500

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