Among the important tax forms you’ll need to complete once you’ve become a self-publishing business is a Schedule C.This form reports income or loss from a business that’s a sole proprietorship. It…
Once you’ve self-published, you’ve become a business. For many creatives, though, the business world is about alien as the Martian landscape. Don’t worry – being an author/b…
Click the title for the full article.• Wait to format text until editing is done One rookie mistake made by many self-publishing authors is that they start formatting their manuscript before it is …
For many writers, the work that goes into self-publishing can be confusing and too time-consuming. Taking the time to learn the process, however, can be beneficial in the long run. Here are some ti…
Surprisingly, after a decade of gaining popularity, some writers still dream of following the corporate route to publishing rather than self-publishing. That may be because plenty of myths abo…
• Consider organizing short stories into fix-it novelIf you like to write short stories, you probably are frustrated with the limited number of markets available out there to publish them in. And w…
How to Upload Your Book to Kindle Direct Publishing
Perhaps the step that most frightens authors in the self-publishing process is uploading their manuscript to be published as a paperback at Kindle Direct Publishing Especially for those with limite…
Ebooks follow different formatting rules than books printed on paper. That’s because a book made of ink on paper is a different platform for presenting information than a book made of digital bits …
While researching how to get published, one term you’re likely to run into is “The Big Five”. This refers to five publishing houses that now dominate the book industry in the United States. The maj…
Q: I have a lot of books at home and all the books have a half-title and then they have a title page with the name of book and author. Why do books have to have both a half-title page and a title p…
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author
