This book explains how to turn your manuscript into an ebook, and use various market channels to sell your book efficiently and effectively. The first few chapters explain how to improve your book’s chance of commercial success by writing hooks in your book, proofreading your own work, formatting and typesetting your book, converting it into a digital download and uploading it for sale on Amazon Kindle. This book explains how to use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest and other social networking sites to promote your book to reach a global market, and explains how to successfully building an author brand, develop an Amazon Author Page and participate on Kindleboards.

Being savvy online is an important part of publishing and promoting your ebook. Tweeting and retweeting on Twitter, linking to Pinterest and other social bookmarking sites, and securing positive reviews from experts on Goodreads and other social cataloguing websites are just some of the useful online tips this book covers. It also explains how to seek reviews and high-level endorsements for your book, how to set yourself up as a reviewer and how to provide reciprocal reviews of other authors’ books.

Want to raise your literary profile and build up a readership and fan base but don’t know where to start? This book walks you through blogging, the ins and outs of YouTube and the importance of an author website to help get your presence out there and your work known. It even discusses how to sell the foreign rights to your book and seek traditional publication once your book has garnered local and regional notoriety. Turn your book into a bestseller! ‘Publish and Promote Your Ebook IN A DAY’ will show you how. 

Darin Jewell is a professional literary agent and author of ‘How to Sell and Market Your Book’. He is a regular speaker at writing seminars and writing groups, and represents bestselling authors Fergus O’Connell, Michael G. R. Tolkien, Mark Leigh and Simon Brown.

Conrad Jones is a bestselling ebook author, and has been interviewed by the BBC as an ebook specialist. His ‘Soft Target’ thrillers were in the Amazon top 40 for nearly 12 months, with ‘The Child Taker’ reaching #1 in thriller law books, and ‘Tank’ reaching #1 in thriller war books.

IN A DAY Series

1. How to Publish and Sell Your Ebook; 2. How to Use Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites to Sell Your Ebook; 3. Build an Author Brand, Develop Your Amazon Profile and Participate on Kindle Boards; 4. Market Your Book on Twitter, Pinterest and Goodreads; 5. Secure Reviews and Set Yourself Up as a Reviewer; 6. Guerrilla Marketing and DIY Distribution for Your Book; 7. Set Up a Website and Blog for Your Book; 8. Multichannel Marketing to Sell Your Book Around the World; Appendix 1: UK Writers’ Groups and Literary Workshops; Appendix 2: Selected UK Library Contacts; Glossary; About the Authors