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How to get your Book Published
3 students

How to get your Book Published

Everything you need to know about getting published and selling your book
Created byDebbie Martin
Last updated 8/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • What to do to self-publish your book
  • Deciding with whom and how to self-publish your book
  • How to format your book for self-publishing, including cover designs
  • Ways to promote and sell your self-published book to best-seller status

Course content

7 sections26 lectures1h 11m total length
  • Welcome to the Getting Published Course0:11
  • Authropreneur Welcome Video1:23

    This course will cover all aspects of publishing a book, all the way through to promoting and selling it. It is primarily aimed at self-publishers, but much of the promotion and marketing information is also relevant to anyone who has a book traditionally published too.

  • About the Instructor0:18

Requirements

  • Access to a computer and the internet.
  • Your book in draft.
  • Enthusiasm and excitement to be a published author.

Description

Have you written a book and would love to see it published but don’t know how?

Have you decided to self-publish your book, but don’t know how?


If you’ve worked hard to write a great book, no wonder you want to see it in print or online – and why not? But deciding whether to seek traditional publication or to self-publish is tricky and trickier still to actually achieve.

Not with this course!

From reviewing your publishing options to taking you through each step to self-publishing your book, this course tells you exactly how it all works. Don’t worry that there is technical stuff involved, or that you may know nothing about publishing at all. I will show you exactly what to do and how to do it, ‘holding your hand’ every step of the way.

I’m a writer across several genres, with best-sellers and award-winners amongst the 13 books I’ve written. Some are traditionally published and others are self-published, so I understand both publishing routes. I’m also a writing and self-publishing teacher. Through this course, I can help you get YOUR story in print too.


How can this course help you?


Publishing a book can take many forms, and that can be bewildering, but it need not be if you follow the process through in simple steps. Such areas as:

  • Traditional or self-publishing which is right for you?

  • How do you know your book is ready to be published.

  • How you approach literary agents and publishers if you’d like to try getting traditionally published, including writing a synopsis and book submission?

  • How do you format your book if you decide to self-publish?

  • How do you create a book cover?

  • How do you write a back cover blurb?

  • Where do you self-publish/ sell your book?

  • How do you promote your book so it sells?

  • How do you get yourself known as an author?

  • And of course, how do you make your book into a bestseller?

Well, this course answers all those questions and more, guiding you through each of the stages of publishing, promoting, and selling your book, including the legalities you need to comply with.


TESTIMONIALS...


Thank you, Debbie, for a mind-blowing few days - right now, I'm trying to assimilate everything.  - Catherine M


My mind seemed full to overflowing, the course was filled with such useful info. - Pat D


Thank you again for your inspiring course. It was just what I had hoped for. - Hilary P



What’s inside this course?


This course will take you through:

  • A comparison of Traditional and Self-publishing.

  • Writing a convincing synopsis and book submission.

  • Creating a professional Author platform, including Social Media accounts, website, and mailing list.

  • Developing a book launch strategy specific to your book.

  • Formatting your book for digital and print publication

  • Designing a professional book cover

  • Writing a back cover blurb for your book.

  • The options for self-publishing, and how to set about it.

  • The legalities you must comply with when publishing a book.

  • How to promote your book so that it sells.

  • How to use Amazon to promote and sell your book.

  • How to create your own customer base without relying on Amazon.

  • How to get your book onto bestseller lists.

  • Many resource lists covering book awards, where to promote your book, software the professionals use for promotion and marketing of books, cover designers and book formatters, and much, much more.

Plus an overview of what you could do with your finished story.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wanting to learn how to self-publish and make their book really sell.
  • Anyone keen to be autonomous as a self-published author.
  • Anyone keen to learn how to promote their own books.