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KDP UPDATE: Amazon Authors Are Making Less Royalties????
https://youtu.be/LF26BE_phLI KDP has always paid its authors 60% royalty rates. On June 10th, it changed to 50% if you have your book priced at $9.98 or lower. This change stirred up a lot of commotion and even confusion. For example, when the change went into effect,...
How to Upload Your Book Files to KDP: Self-Publishing Upload Requirements
https://youtu.be/XeweiwmuO6Y In the past, I did a full step by step tutorial on how to publish your book on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. What I did not go into, however, was how to prep the files for uploading ahead of time. In this video I'm going to go over the...
5 Self-Publishing Mistakes Indie Authors Are Making
https://youtu.be/vgyIr4uyP2U When it comes to self-publishing a book, there's a lot you need to learn. At this point, I've published over fifteen books, and I'm still learning something new with every book I publish. With that said, what are some of the most common...
Marketing For Authors
Creating a Cinematic Book Trailer – Behind the Scenes
https://youtu.be/McaKhU5PB2U Creating a Cinematic Book Trailer – Behind the Scenes // This week I’m teaming up with Film 14 to bring you a series of videos on book trailers. This is the third and final video in book trailer series. Today we’re going behind the scenes...
Hiring a Professional to Create a Book Trailer
Hiring a Professional to Create a Book Trailer // This week I’m teaming up with Film 14 to bring you a series of videos on book trailers. The first video in the series is all about things you should know when it comes to hiring someone to create your book trailer:...
Increase Pre-Order Book Sales (+paperback pre-orders)
Increase Pre-Order Book Sales (+paperback pre-orders) // Today’s video we’re talking about a few things! First, let’s talk about how you can increase pre-orders for your book by having book pre-order incentives. If you want to avoid working with IngramSpark, I also...
YA INK & Writing Tips
Finishing the First Draft and Realizing I Forgot a Subplot… ? Writing Vlog
https://youtu.be/pwZk-ByQypk I finished writing the first draft of my novel! This excitement was quickly replaced with the realization that the reason my draft was so short was before I forgot an entire subplot of my book. I blame mom- brain. Anyway, enjoy this...
Create a Notebook to Sell on Amazon KDP with BookBolt – Low Content Publishing Tutorial
https://youtu.be/HpZKLouvusU ? Click this link to get Book Bolt: https://bookbolt.io/6622.html ? Use my DISCOUNT CODE to get an EXTRA 20% OFF ?? MANDI20 Typically on my YouTube channel I cover writing and publishing novels, but today I wanted to dive into the world of...
How to Write a Book with DRAMA Using Character Maps
https://youtu.be/ySMI-8FwGx4 How to Write a Book with DRAMA Using Character Maps // Let's create some drama in our books using character maps. Today we'll discuss how we can create conflict and layers of messy characters in our story by creating a messy character map,...