Writer's Resources
A place where writer's can discover our Book Planning links!
Below are a list of resources that we've worked with over the years. Not every resource is below, but more details are within the Troll River Blog. Check out our categories section! For instance the "Marketing" tag will give you ideas on Marketing. "The Toolbox" will give you tools to use for writing, marketing and other cool stuff.
Winning KDP Select
When your ready to fill out forms and let websites know about your free ebook, go to the Author Marketing Club - this is the link that binds them all! You'll need to be a member, but it's free! Go here:
http://authormarketingclub.com/members/submit-your-book/ |
More Links for promoting your free ebook...
Of course AMC only has most the hassle free promotion places. I have another link to GalleyCat, but beware of duplicates:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/free-ebook-promotion_b52130 |
Trying to decide on the right book title?
PickFu allows you to create cheap, instant market feedback polls. You ask the question and PickFu gets you 50 responses immediately. Easy A/B testing and micro-surveys--perfect for testing book titles and covers! I did a blog post about it HERE! Or... Click HERE to go to PickFu: http://www.pickfu.com/
PickFu allows you to create cheap, instant market feedback polls. You ask the question and PickFu gets you 50 responses immediately. Easy A/B testing and micro-surveys--perfect for testing book titles and covers! I did a blog post about it HERE! Or... Click HERE to go to PickFu: http://www.pickfu.com/
If you're looking for a coupon code you can see it HERE!
Virtual Book Blog Tours
I hear good things about Reading Addicted Blog tours
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Sizzling PR actually does blog tours for *gulp* EROTICA! Bravo!
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We've worked with Virtual Book Tour before and Mrs. Walker is a wonderful lady who works very hard to promote you:
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Bewitching Book Tours is another Blog Tour Company we love!
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Cover Design
We've used 99Designs! For me information, we've blogged about it HERE.
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Truenotdreams is a cover designer we've used extensively and would highly recommend. Affordable pricing and wonderful to work with.
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General Author Services
Titan InKorp does just about everything an indie author needs to promote their book but gets too swamped to do. Proof Reading, Logo Design, Book Trailers, Website design, Book Formatting, Book cover design, Banners...and more. Check out their Services page.
http://titaninkorp.com/marketing-authors-worldwide/
Want to know if you've got a killer title for your novel? Now, for the first time in literary history, you can put your title to the scientific test and find out whether it has what it takes for bestseller success.
Lulu Titlescorer
http://titaninkorp.com/marketing-authors-worldwide/
Want to know if you've got a killer title for your novel? Now, for the first time in literary history, you can put your title to the scientific test and find out whether it has what it takes for bestseller success.
Lulu Titlescorer
ASMSG (Author Social Media Support Group) is a group of independent authors that got together to support each other in their social media endeavors. Click the icon for more information.
Blogging
Pictures get all the attention! http://compfight.com/ gives you those thousand words free in exchange for giving the artist credit. Great for when you're looking for just the right picture for your blog.
It's funny when Ralph Wiggum invents his own grammar, but most of us aren't nearly that special. Use this content generator to construct your next blog.
Portent's Content Idea Generator
It's funny when Ralph Wiggum invents his own grammar, but most of us aren't nearly that special. Use this content generator to construct your next blog.
Portent's Content Idea Generator
The Blog Post Ideas Generator is nothing else than a random selection (also known as the lottery) of interesting key words combined together. It might be a beginning of a sentence, an intriguing title for a story or a pattern where you just need to fill the gaps. 1000 ways of making an omelette? Sometimes you just need that first spark to figure out the rest. It’s also a nice stretch for your mind when you’re too tired of staying in your own world. Click the picture or HERE for more information!
Start A Blog is a DIY helpful guide for those starting to blog. It's got some helpful directions on topics and free sites to start on and specific directions on topics like how to convert a Blogger blog to a Wordpress site. Click the picture for more information!
Blogging Basics 101 creator Jessica Knapp has been teaching people how to get started online with different blogging platforms such as blogger.com, typepad and more recently WordPress since 2010.
BloggingBasics101.com is a nationally recognized site that provides tips and instructions for beginning and intermediate bloggers. It has been featured on Mashable as well as Hubspot’s list of “10 Amazing Blogs About Blogging to Start Reading NOW.”
Topics such as how to make money with your blog and 7 ways to boost your success as a blogger are the mainstays of the site.
BloggingBasics101.com is a nationally recognized site that provides tips and instructions for beginning and intermediate bloggers. It has been featured on Mashable as well as Hubspot’s list of “10 Amazing Blogs About Blogging to Start Reading NOW.”
Topics such as how to make money with your blog and 7 ways to boost your success as a blogger are the mainstays of the site.
Style and Formatting for eBook Uploads
I was given two links that are fantastic and explain the process of uploading your eBook to Amazon and Smashwords.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52
This is a free eBook and has helped many people. But if you know how to format in MS Word, you might not need this guide. It's for those who haven't spent the time getting to know the very powerful things about MS Word and don't want to.
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A17W8UM0MMSQX6
This link I found very useful. It gives me parameters in which I can work with. If I have an image, I know what to do. What font is best for uploading? You'll know. Frustrated because you used your tab key instead of learning how to indent in Word? This tells you don't do that. If you haven't a clue as to the last sentence, you'll need the Smashwords link above this one.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52
This is a free eBook and has helped many people. But if you know how to format in MS Word, you might not need this guide. It's for those who haven't spent the time getting to know the very powerful things about MS Word and don't want to.
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A17W8UM0MMSQX6
This link I found very useful. It gives me parameters in which I can work with. If I have an image, I know what to do. What font is best for uploading? You'll know. Frustrated because you used your tab key instead of learning how to indent in Word? This tells you don't do that. If you haven't a clue as to the last sentence, you'll need the Smashwords link above this one.
Processing Tools/Conversion Tools
Scrivener is software created strictly for writers--of all genre and writing styles. Literature and Latte took the idea of a writing processor and made it what Microsoft Word is suppose to be for writers. There are several tutorials, but I wrote a post about Scrivener HERE. I highly recommend this product and it's been holding at $40 (give or take) which is the best deal I've ever seen for how powerful it is. I use it for converting documents to .epub/.mobi files, which was the reason why I bought it, but when I started working with it, I realized the possibilities. Scrivener has since driven my writing/editing process to new levels of organization I can't get with other writing software.
If you want to know more about Scrivener like, how to use Scrivener OR where to use Scrivener click on this guy --->
He's Bryan Collins and he wants to help you become a writer and finish what you started. He's also got the low down you need and helps writer's get motivated! Check out his website: Become A Writer Today or check out his scrivener stuff HERE.
He's Bryan Collins and he wants to help you become a writer and finish what you started. He's also got the low down you need and helps writer's get motivated! Check out his website: Become A Writer Today or check out his scrivener stuff HERE.
Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation Help
I blogged about this book and Jane Straus' site HERE.
Promotions
Take a look at my blog titled "Tuesday Tools" under the category of The Toolbox for older tools and The Tool Box for newer tools! There are some great resources for authors and most of them I provide are FREE things you can do.
Translation
Babelcube is a company that connects authors and publishers with translators. You set your book up on their website and wait for a translator to ask to translate your book. The translators payment comes in the form of royalties. 30% after Babelcube takes their 20%. You need to supply a translated book cover and new ISBN but otherwise Babelcube sets up the book in many platforms of the language in which its translated for. READ ABOUT BABELCUBE OR MY EXPERIENCE WITH BABELCUBE.
Getting Reviews
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Night Owl Reviews is an extensive book lovers site that lists gobbs and gobbs of books. It's the metro city of review sites. They have a quality process and sometimes they will not take your book. I was thankfully able to get some books on there...finding those books on the site is a totally different matter. I tried looking under the title of the book, but found it under the author name. Just FYI.
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