Self-Publishing Course 4:
Book Distribution & Direct Sales: How to Publish & Sell Your Book on Amazon and Far, Far Beyond
Zoom Class with Carla King and Linda Joy Myers
TBA
90 minutes on Zoom – 60 minutes and 30 minutes Q&A
$99 / $79 for NAMW Members
COMING SOON!
VALUABLE BONUSES include Carla’s Distribute Your Book online course, a $49 value.
Learn about the services that will get your ebook, print book, and audiobook out into the world. This course will prepare you for the formatting and design work you need to do to ready your book for distribution. It will get you thinking about book marketing strategies on launch day, taking advantage of the marketing programs some of the online retailers provide. For example, you’ll learn why so many authors use the exclusive Amazon KDP Select program to sell their ebook instead of “going wide” to all the ebook stores. You’ll learn about metadata, and exactly how many words and characters you are allowed to use in your book description and author bio. Book categories and keywords? BISAC codes? We’ll go there, too!
We’ll cover how to get your book in bricks-and-mortar stores, libraries, and online retailers, as well as how to sell your book directly from your website.
- Amazon KDP
- Kobo Writing Life
- IngramSpark
- Smashwords
- Draft2Digital
- PublishDrive
- StreetLib
- Bublish
- BookBaby
- Blurb
- Leanpub
- eCommerce systems
So please join us for this 90-minute workshop and receive forever access to the Distribute Your Book online course.
Book Distribution & Direct Sales: How to Publish & Sell Your Book on Amazon and Far, Far Beyond
Publishing Series by Carla King & Linda Joy Myers
How to Sell Your Book to Bookstores, Libraries, and Online Retailers
Book Distribution and Direct Sales Basics
TBA
90 minutes on Zoom – 60 minutes and 30 minutes Q&A
$99 / $79 for NAMW Members
VALUABLE BONUSES include Carla’s Distribute Your Book online course, a $49 value.
Learn about the services that will get your ebook, print book, and audiobook out into the world. This course will prepare you for the formatting and design work you need to do to ready your book for distribution. It will get you thinking about book marketing strategies on launch day, taking advantage of the marketing programs some of the online retailers provide. For example, you’ll learn why so many authors use the exclusive Amazon KDP Select program to sell their ebook instead of “going wide” to all the ebook stores. You’ll learn about metadata, and exactly how many words and characters you are allowed to use in your book description and author bio. Book categories and keywords? BISAC codes? We’ll go there, too!
Three Easy Ways to Grow Your Email List… And You Don’t Even Need a Website!
Monday March 1st, 2021
3 PM PST | 4 PM MST | 5 PM CST | 6 PM EST
90 minutes on Zoom – 60 minutes and 30 minutes Q&A
$99 / $79 for NAMW Members
VALUABLE BONUSES include Carla’s Build Your Platform online course, a $49 value.
You’ve heard that you need to grow your email list so you can sell your book when it launches, but how do you even start? This second course in our publishing series guides you step-by-step through a process that really works. We think you’ll even have fun with it… really!
Publishing for Memoirists: The Steps You Need to Take to Successfully Publish Your Memoir in 2021
Feb 8, 2021 (Replay available)
Many authors believe that publishing your book independently is simply about getting your book designed, formatted, and uploaded to stores, so it’s no wonder the average self-published book sells only 200 copies. You can do better by following a proven process to find your community of readers and peers, to get your book into as many hands as possible, to build a platform, and to follow a launch plan.
Publishing Course 1
Everything You Want to Know About Self-Publishing but Are Afraid to Ask
Jan 25, 2021 (Replay available)
Carla King and I want to help you become a successful author. In our NAMW coaching calls and teleseminars over the last few years, I’ve noticed that there is a great deal of confusion and many questions about how to get your memoir published. Many of you have noticed that it’s nearly impossible through the traditional means—especially now that there are only three major publishing houses. That means you must find your way through the maze of self-publishing options—or is it “indie” or hybrid? Yes, there are so many questions, and we will answer them.
On this FREE call we’re going to address many of the major questions about how to decide what path you want to take. We understand that the process feels overwhelming and is fraught with potential landmines, and it’s hard to know where to start.
Click here to learn more and sign up to get the free recording
Carla King
Carla King is one of the most trusted experts in the self-publishing world today. A former technical writer turned travel writer, she self-published her first book, a cycling guide to the south of France, in 1994. In 1995, she pioneered the art of real time online dispatches to the internet, now called blog posts, from a journey around America on the saddle of a cranky Russian motorcycle. In 2004, she self-published the edited posts as a memoir titled American Borders. For almost two decades Carla has tracked the evolution of publishing technology, serving both as an industry consultant and author advocate on their path to successful independent publishing. Her Destination Published consulting services and the Self-Publishing Boot Camp educational program of books, online courses, and workshops serve groups and individual authors. Carla is a popular blogger, speaker, and conference organizer in the worlds of both publishing and adventure travel. Find out more at SelfPubBootCamp.com
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D.
Linda Joy Myers is the founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers, and has been teaching memoir for over twenty-five years. A therapist for forty-plus years, Linda weaves a deep understanding of family dynamics and the process of healing with her expertise on craft—finding the moments of meaning that reveal your truth. The author of two prize-winning memoirs, Don’t Call Me Mother and Song of the Plains, Linda Joy teaches Write your Memoir in Six Months with Brooke Warner. Twenty years ago, Linda Joy traveled the self-publishing path for two books—and celebrates that now it’s much easier, especially with the tools and techniques available.
