How to Get Your Book Published Online for Free

by Carol Wilson

For some writers, putting a good plot, great dialogue and strong character development to paper is the easy part—the huge battle is actually getting their book published. If you have recently finished your book but are struggling finding a publisher to get your work out in the public, you may still be able to your book in the hands of millions of readers. How?

Use of the Three Most Popular Self-Publishing Electronic Companies–Kindle Direct Publishing, PubIt, and Lulu

While all three are different, they serve the same purpose—to get you the exposure you need through an electronic, digital medium. And did we mention the services are absolutely free? That’s right. All three offer free registration and you will still get all of the royalties you earn. You just need to make sure that you investigate all three options carefully since each venue caters to a distinct audience (and once you choose a publisher you must stick with it). That said, to learn a little more about each self-publishing e-agency, continue reading.

Published on September 6, 2011 at 4:35 PM by Judy Cullins

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Do I Really Need a Separate ISBN for my eBook?

by Ron Ron Pramschufer

I can recommend  Ron Pramschufer’s approach to self publishing. He also has a great newsletter you must check out!

This is probably one of the most asked; least understood questions out there in the self-publishing world today. Technically you not only need an ISBN but you need a different ISBN for each format your ebook is being offered. If you are offering your book as a mobi, epub and a PDF, you need three different ISBNs. That’s technically. In reality, if you are only making your eBook available on Amazon, you don’t need any. Confused?

Published on September 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM by Judy Cullins

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What’s Your Rush? A Lesson in Book Event Planning

I know Phil’s work as a book coach. He’s creative and tells a good story. You’ll love this one!

Welcome to the Coach’s Corner!

A man accompanies his pregnant wife to her doctor’s visit. She’s four months along and everything’s been going very well. The doctor announces a due date: March 21.

“Aw, shucks,” says dad. “We were hoping for a Valentine’s baby.”

The doctor nods with a smile. “Well, March will be a fine month, too.”

Published on August 30, 2011 at 1:40 PM by Judy Cullins

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Writing Your Book – 5 Tips to Get Started

Knowing your book’s big picture not only gives focus to your book, but is the foundation that helps you guarantee its financial success.

The biggest mistake even professionals make, is that they don’t write their book for only one primary audience. They don’t know their non-fiction book’s benefits before they write. When authors know these pre-marketing strategies, they will write a book that’s engaging, focused, motivational, and easy to read. Then, their readers will finish the book and sing its praises as a 24/7 sales team.

Published on April 27, 2011 at 12:18 PM by Judy Cullins

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Can You Be a Best Selling Self-Published Author?

You may think you need a New York publisher in order to be a successful author. But as a long time book coach, with many clients who self-published for business successfully, I can show you non-vanity publishers who have given great information to our world, gotten great word of mouth, and even made millions. So, be encouraged and start your education on self-publishing now.

Here’s 5 High Profit Self-Publishers

Please comment below to add to this list. I can edit this page to add your successful mention to this list of known successful self-publishers!

1. Think about “What Color is Your Parachute” by Richard Bolles.

The book came out in 1970, and now has 10 million copies in print. It still works for the recession job seeker today.

Published on February 1, 2011 at 2:40 PM by Judy Cullins

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Writing your Great Selling Book – Interview with Judy Cullins

Judy, thanks so much for agreeing to be interviewed for Lebrary.com. Today, we have Judy Cullins, author of “Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast!”–available in print, Kindle and eBook formats. Judy is a noted book shepherd and hosts a Website bookcoaching.com that is filled with free how to articles, blog posts, and free reports along with her stellar 13 books and teleseminar MP3 audios, and short-term coaching opportunities.

Q: Judy, can you tell us how your journey has taken you to online book coaching?

A: From 1980 to 2000, I coached book writers in San Diego seminars and took committed writers as coaching clients. In 2000, I got online and have updated and optimized my site Bookcoaching.com 6 times over the past years.

I left traditional publishing and marketing because it took so long and didn’t pay off as well as writing e or print books and selling them online. 75+ authors have published with me. They learned how to write a quality, saleable eBook that many emerging authors don’t pay attention to. Too short or too general books don’t sell well. As a long time book coach, I just want all the work that goes into a book to get rewarded. And that’s why I wrote my book, Write your eBook …Fast. Authors need to do pre-marketing inside the book and they need to know how to write an engaging chapter so their readers will finish each chapter and recommend it to many. They can become your 24/7 sales team.

Published on January 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM by Judy Cullins

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eBook Sales Compete Well with Traditional Publishing Models

New and aspiring fiction and non-fiction authors won’t get much attention from publishers and won’t get much of an advance these days.

Publishers are calling the great eBook success a “digital disruption.”

Not true from my point of view. eBooks are gaining acceptance. eBook sales are strong–think about 3 1/2 billion in 2010. That’s enough for most of you to make plenty of ongoing income from an eBook you write, (with a little book coaching, and selling it from your own business Web site (with the correct sales letter).

Published on October 17, 2010 at 10:31 AM by Judy Cullins

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Judy Cullins Answers eBook Questions

Each month I get a lot of questions from aspiring authors. Here’s a few on self publishing, ISBN #’s, and copyright information. Yes, you can always Google for answers too.

1) Can you supply me with a suggested web address to obtain an ISBN number?

Judy: Just Google ISBN and get it.

2) Will I need a different number for each of my ten ebooks?

Judy: depends on where your sell them. At your site, don’t need them. At other sites, you do need them. And yes, one for each book.

3) Do you have a suggested web address for copywriting the ebooks?

Judy: Google United States Copyright Office and find the short form TX. They didn’t include their website on my paper work.

4) Do you have anything I can buy from you that will give me ebook publishing steps?

Judy: Did you buy Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast yet? It has all your answers in it.

I advise you publish them yourself. It’s simple to do for print or eBooks. If you want more from me, I suggest you get a 30 minute session from me to finish your project. Ask any question for self-pub, or promotion.

Do you have a pressing question about your book project? Ask away!

Published on August 20, 2010 at 9:32 AM by Judy Cullins

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Seven Things to Think About Before you Go With Print on Demand

Is Print on Demand all you think it is?

You, like many other authors who don’t want to go the long hard road with traditional publishing, and who like the low cost and seemingly easiest and best way to publish a book, Print on Demand Publishing looks good. They print one book at a time when it’s ordered.  But, think again. After many years of authors coming to me saying they did not make money going with a POD, and my research noticing the poor payoffs from Print on Demand, as an author’s advocate, I say, think again.

Top Seven Things to Think About Before you Go With Print on Demand

1. Notice how many other authors and books are listed on the POD web site.

Like a brick and mortar bookstore, your audience won’t go to the Print on Demand site looking for your specific book. In fact, the people who go are other authors like you. They don’t want to buy your book, they come because they think this is a simple way to be on a website where one can sell books. So who will buy?

Published on April 21, 2010 at 9:40 AM by Judy Cullins

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Poll: What do you want to know more about from Judy Cullins?

In a Nut Shell These Skills Can Do Wonders for your Book or Business

Through  my book  coaching which has  birthed over 75 author’s books, 11 books, whose best seller is “Write your EBook or Other Short Book Fast!” at Amazon and my site, my book coaching blog, new a month ago that  we add to almost daily,  and over 25 teleseminars, you learn about the topics below.

Now I am asking for your feedback.

(you can choose more than one)

My passion for writing and assisting you in your journey is what drives me. I sure hope you get value from my information and education.

You can also add your own book writing, publishing, and marketing topics that I can help you with by commenting below

Published on March 29, 2010 at 8:59 AM by Judy Cullins

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Book Coaching can Help Authors Avoid Costly Mistakes

Maybe you are thinking about getting help with your book project. Maybe you wonder if it’s worth it. Whatever form that coaching takes, it is worth it. A book coach can help you save time, frustration, and money down the drain because you will stop book writing, publishing, and promotion mistakes before they start.

Here’s 11 Common Author Mistakes and How to Solve Them

One. Emerging authors don’t know their book’s purpose. Answer the question why are you are writing it? For fame, fortune? To answer a challenge? To brand your business and make money? To entertain?

Two. Emerging authors don’t know who is their preferred audience (it’s not everyone, what their preferred audience wants (as in solutions for a challenge), or where to reach them so the promotion and marketing dollars spend will bring a high Return on Investment (ROI). This is the most common and costly mistake, because a general audience is much harder to write for (you must include each audience in each chapter), and harder to market and promote. Your audience is all important in social media too.

Published on March 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM by Judy Cullins

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Why Self-Publishing Beats Traditional Publishing

The stigma of self-publishing not being acceptable as a viable way to publish is long over. That’s just old propaganda.

And, you should know that the odds of you being accepted by a big publisher are 1%. And if you do get “chosen” you will still have to do the promotion. They may give you an intern who will schedule some book signings in North Dakota or Maine, but not where they will do you some good. Those book tours are grueling and a lot of work for the authors with little payoffs. My advice is not to go with a publisher unless they can make you at least 10X as much money as you can on your own. They don’t pay attention to you. You should pay attention to you!

You may know that ebook sales for 2010 will be near $3.5 billion. Traditional publishing is down 3%. So what’s the right choice? And remember, Kindle books sell at around $10. And, the younger audience is also expanding to mature adults.

Books are still the # one seller on the internet.

Why not yours? And…

1. Get real. Write your best short book with high value the first time.

Contact a book coach to help you write your chapters so they are quality, and engage your reader by solving his/her challenges.

You may know a lot, but can you share it without lecturing or telling?

Published on March 10, 2010 at 12:26 PM by Judy Cullins

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What is Self-Publishing?

Opinions vary about self-publishing. I self-published 11 of my own print and eBooks that are business books about book writing, self-publishing, and book marketing. Self-publishing is not a vanity press option, where you can get a company to get your family cookbook or anything into print. And Print on Demand is a digital printing offering, not publishing or marketing. While many choose it because they don’t know the downfalls of it and they get disappointed. I have offered discussions on Print on Demand at my book group at Linkedin.com.

Think YOU when you think self-publishing. YOU are responsible for all the things that you must do to get your book into the hands of your readers. YOU get an ISBN number for each book, which makes you a publisher unless you plan to only sell your book at your Web site. YOU can set up a publishing name/business as Dan Poynter advises since some book printers won’t work with individuals. But, you don’t have to.

Published on February 6, 2010 at 10:07 AM by Judy Cullins

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Finish Your Book Project and Realize Your Dream this Year

In any endeavor, when we plan for its success we increase our odds of success. If you haven’t realized the book success you wanted last year, here’s a way to reap the harvest with 86% improvement!

Remember Brian Tracy’s “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail?”

Do you believe in New Year’s Resolutions? I don’t. Partly because they are poorly defined wishes, unwritten and fuzzy dreams and contain unrealistic expectations. I do believe in planning for results I want. When we plan we increase our odds of success. Plan to finish your book project this year!

Now, check out the power of your mind to create your year just as you want. If you haven’t realized the book success you wanted last year, here’s a way to reap the harvest with 86% improvement!

Published on January 11, 2010 at 9:46 AM by Judy Cullins

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