From First Draft to Bestseller: Publish a Book that Sells

From First Draft to Bestseller: Publish a Book that Sells, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 45 lectures, based on 13 reviews, and has 121 subscribers.

You will learn about How to find a professional editor for your book How to format your book How to find a cover designer and how to design the cover yourself How to write a great book description How to get lots of credible reviews What to avoid when seeking reviews How to find positive ways of dealing with negative reviews, and use them to grow as an author and a person How to set up an ISBN and learn why you may or may not need one How to set up your book's BISAC codes and learn why they're important How to register copyright How to set up your book's Goodreads and LibraryThing pages How to run giveaways on Goodreads and LibraryThing How to build your mailing list using InstaFreebie How to use BookFunnel to send readers copies of your ebook How to grow your mailing list and use it to sell more books How to set up auto sequences on MailChimp How to launch your book so you maximize sales on its publication day How to sell books while retaining your professional and artistic integrity Know whether it's better to use an aggregator such as Draft2Digital and SmashWords or to sell directly on stores such as Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble and Kobo How to make more money by setting up your ebook directly on Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, and NOOK How to optimize your Amazon page by using effective keywords and categories, increasing your chances of having a bestseller How to set up your Amazon Author Central page, and why it's important to do so How to track your Amazon sales data for free using Book Report How to avoid getting your book and reviews removed from Amazon How to give your book away for free on Amazon permanently, and why this can be a great strategy to sell books On Kobo, learn how to run promotions and sell your books to libraries using OverDrive Know whether it's better for you to publish your print book with CreateSpace or IngramSpark How to set up your print book on CreateSpace and IngramSpark How to sell books using BookBub and Amazon ads How to use the latest technology to target specific readers who'll love your book How to sell books by running ads on websites such as Ereader News Today, Booksends, The Fussy Librarian, BookGorilla, etc… How to increase your chances of being selected for a BookBub promotion (which is different from a BookBub ad) How to convince booksellers to sell your books in their stores How to increase your chances of getting your book into libraries Why giving away your book for free can lead to more sales Learn self-publishing lingo: "permafree," "going wide," "going direct," etc… How to create free and beautiful Facebook banners, ad designs, and more using Canva Where to meet other authors like you Where to find a number of contests for self-published books, and how winning these can help further your writing career How to avoid being scammed by crooks looking to cheat new authors Tons of great tips on how to create, publish, and market a beautiful, high-quality book that sells BONUS: How to turn your book or new story idea into a screenplay This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginning authors who are overwhelmed with what to do after they’ve written their books and want a step-by-step guide on how to build their audience from zero and turn their manuscript into a beautiful book that readers will want to buy or Veteran writers, both independently and traditionally published, who’d like up-to-date tips on how to effectively market their books in an ever-changing marketplace or Even if you haven't started writing your book, and you’d simply like to ease your anxiety by seeing a step-by-step guide on how to self-publish, you should check out From First Draft to Bestseller It is particularly useful for Beginning authors who are overwhelmed with what to do after they’ve written their books and want a step-by-step guide on how to build their audience from zero and turn their manuscript into a beautiful book that readers will want to buy or Veteran writers, both independently and traditionally published, who’d like up-to-date tips on how to effectively market their books in an ever-changing marketplace or Even if you haven't started writing your book, and you’d simply like to ease your anxiety by seeing a step-by-step guide on how to self-publish, you should check out From First Draft to Bestseller.

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Summary

Title: From First Draft to Bestseller: Publish a Book that Sells

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.3

Number of Lectures: 45

Number of Published Lectures: 45

Number of Curriculum Items: 45

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45

Original Price: $119.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

How to find a professional editor for your book
How to format your book
How to find a cover designer and how to design the cover yourself
How to write a great book description
How to get lots of credible reviews
What to avoid when seeking reviews
How to find positive ways of dealing with negative reviews, and use them to grow as an author and a person
How to set up an ISBN and learn why you may or may not need one
How to set up your book's BISAC codes and learn why they're important
How to register copyright
How to set up your book's Goodreads and LibraryThing pages
How to run giveaways on Goodreads and LibraryThing
How to build your mailing list using InstaFreebie
How to use BookFunnel to send readers copies of your ebook
How to grow your mailing list and use it to sell more books
How to set up auto sequences on MailChimp
How to launch your book so you maximize sales on its publication day
How to sell books while retaining your professional and artistic integrity
Know whether it's better to use an aggregator such as Draft2Digital and SmashWords or to sell directly on stores such as Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble and Kobo
How to make more money by setting up your ebook directly on Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, and NOOK
How to optimize your Amazon page by using effective keywords and categories, increasing your chances of having a bestseller
How to set up your Amazon Author Central page, and why it's important to do so
How to track your Amazon sales data for free using Book Report
How to avoid getting your book and reviews removed from Amazon
How to give your book away for free on Amazon permanently, and why this can be a great strategy to sell books
On Kobo, learn how to run promotions and sell your books to libraries using OverDrive
Know whether it's better for you to publish your print book with CreateSpace or IngramSpark
How to set up your print book on CreateSpace and IngramSpark
How to sell books using BookBub and Amazon ads
How to use the latest technology to target specific readers who'll love your book
How to sell books by running ads on websites such as Ereader News Today, Booksends, The Fussy Librarian, BookGorilla, etc…
How to increase your chances of being selected for a BookBub promotion (which is different from a BookBub ad)
How to convince booksellers to sell your books in their stores
How to increase your chances of getting your book into libraries
Why giving away your book for free can lead to more sales
Learn self-publishing lingo: "permafree," "going wide," "going direct," etc…
How to create free and beautiful Facebook banners, ad designs, and more using Canva
Where to meet other authors like you
Where to find a number of contests for self-published books, and how winning these can help further your writing career
How to avoid being scammed by crooks looking to cheat new authors
Tons of great tips on how to create, publish, and market a beautiful, high-quality book that sells
BONUS: How to turn your book or new story idea into a screenplay

Who Should Attend

Beginning authors who are overwhelmed with what to do after they’ve written their books and want a step-by-step guide on how to build their audience from zero and turn their manuscript into a beautiful book that readers will want to buy
Veteran writers, both independently and traditionally published, who’d like up-to-date tips on how to effectively market their books in an ever-changing marketplace
Even if you haven't started writing your book, and you’d simply like to ease your anxiety by seeing a step-by-step guide on how to self-publish, you should check out From First Draft to Bestseller

Target Audiences

Beginning authors who are overwhelmed with what to do after they’ve written their books and want a step-by-step guide on how to build their audience from zero and turn their manuscript into a beautiful book that readers will want to buy
Veteran writers, both independently and traditionally published, who’d like up-to-date tips on how to effectively market their books in an ever-changing marketplace
Even if you haven't started writing your book, and you’d simply like to ease your anxiety by seeing a step-by-step guide on how to self-publish, you should check out From First Draft to Bestseller

Follow a step-by-step guide with the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on how to create, self-publish, and market your book, taught by a certified teacher with over ten years of classroom experience.�

Have you written the first draft of a book but have no idea what to do with it? Do you dream of seeing your book sitting on the shelves of your favorite bookstore? Would you like to learn strategies that have helped many self-published authors quit their jobs and write full-time?

You’re living during the best time ever to be an author. Due to advances in technology, now anyone can present their books to a worldwide audience with the click of a button. But, just because anyone can do it, that doesn’t mean it’s easy, nor does it guarantee that these authors will have any success. Every year, about million new books are published, adding to an already-saturated market. I created From First Draft to Bestseller to show beginning authors how they can create, self-publish, and market a beautiful, high-quality book that will stand out in this crowded market and attract readers using effective and proven strategies that have helped many self-published authors sell enough books to quit their jobs and write full-time.

This course will cover:

How to edit and format your book�
How to write an effective book blurb�
How to increase your “social proof” by getting lots of credible reviews�
How to build an engaged mailing list using auto sequences
How to sell your books online and in brick and mortar stores�
How to sell more books using Amazon Marketing Services and BookBub ads
How to avoid common pitfalls that trip up many beginning authors�
How to turn your book into a screenplay, and much, much more.

Just to be clear, this course does not give any strategies on how to write a bestselling book, but rather focuses on how to turn your manuscript into a potentially bestselling book on the Amazon charts.

I’ve included the most up-to-date, proven and effective strategies to help authors of all budgets create the highest-quality book possible and build their readership from zero by targeting hungry readers with laser-like accuracy. From First Draft to Bestseller stands out from other online self-publishing courses due to its size and quality of material. Though it’s an 11+ hour course, it’s packed with relevant and concentrated information without the filler and redundancies that bog down other courses. It’s also taught by a certified teacher with over ten years of public school classroom experience, and it even includes a lesson on how to turn your book into a screenplay.�

I’m an award-winning, bestselling author of three independently published novels that have outsold authors such as Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Kurt Vonnegut on Amazon’s Kindle store. Two of my three novels have been recommended by Kirkus Reviews and my most recent, The Summer of Crud, was selected to the Barnes & Noble B&N Press Picks list for February/March 2018. I’ve also written eleven screenplays that have won over 150 awards/honors in various international screenwriting competitions, and in July 2017, I optioned one of those screenplays to one of the producers of the American Pie and Final Destination films. I currently live in San Diego, CA and teach at a public secondary school.

Achieving success as a self-published author is often a long-term journey, but if you stay positive and apply the strategies you learn from this course, you’ll likely experience enough successes along the way to keep you energized and moving forward on that path where you’ll learn things about yourself you that will amaze and inspire you. I’d love the opportunity to show you how I’ve achieved a number of the goals I’ve set for myself as a writer, and how I can help you to achieve your own. I’m ready when you are to take that first step of this journey together. �

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: About the Instructor

Lecture 3: What is Self-Publishing?

Lecture 4: Isn't Marketing a Book Considered "Selling Out?"

Chapter 2: Create

Lecture 1: How to Get Your Book Professionally Edited, and Why this is Critical

Lecture 2: How to Format your Book for eReaders and Print

Lecture 3: Cover Design

Lecture 4: How to Write an Effective Book Blurb

Lecture 5: How to Get Lots of Credible Reviews, which Increase your "Social Proof"

Lecture 6: How to Deal with Negative Reviews in Positive Ways

Lecture 7: How to Register ISBNs for your Book

Lecture 8: How to Determine your Book's BISAC Codes, and Why these are so Important

Lecture 9: How to Register a Copyright (in the USA), and Why this is so Important

Chapter 3: Publish

Lecture 1: An Introduction to eBook Aggregators: Draft2Digital vs. Smashwords

Lecture 2: How to "Go Direct" and Why Doing this Can Lead to More Sales

Lecture 3: How to Set up your Book to be Sold on Amazon's Kindle Store

Lecture 4: How to Determine your Book's Amazon Categories/Keywords (extremely important)

Lecture 5: How Enrolling your Book in KDP Select can Lead to Many More Sales

Lecture 6: How to Set up your Author Central and Book Report Accounts

Lecture 7: How to Set up your Book to Sell on Apple's iBooks Store

Lecture 8: How to Set up your Book to Sell on Barnes & Noble's NOOK Store

Lecture 9: How to Set up your Book to Sell on Kobo

Lecture 10: An Introduction to Print on Demand Technology: CreateSpace vs. IngramSpark

Lecture 11: How to Create and Sell Print Books on CreateSpace

Lecture 12: How to Create and Sell Print Books on IngramSpark

Chapter 4: Market

Lecture 1: How to Use Goodreads to Increase your Book's Visibility and Get More Readers

Lecture 2: How to Use LibraryThing to Increase your Book's Visibility and Get New Readers

Lecture 3: Grow your Mailing List Using Instafreebie and BookFunnel

Lecture 4: An Introduction to Mailing Lists/MailChimp, and Why These are Critical for Sales

Lecture 5: How to Build a List and Landing Page in MailChimp

Lecture 6: How to Build Auto Sequences in MailChimp and Sell on Autopilot

Lecture 7: How to Grow your Mailing List with Email List Swaps

Lecture 8: How to Create an Engaging Facebook Author Page

Lecture 9: How to Create High-Quality, Free Designs using Canva

Lecture 10: How to Create BookBub Ads and Use them to Target New Readers and Sell More Books

Lecture 11: How to Create Amazon Marketing Services Ads and Use them to Sell More Books

Lecture 12: How to Sell Books using Websites like BookBub, BookSends, The Fussy Librarian…

Lecture 13: How to Convince Bookstores to Buy and Sell your Books

Lecture 14: How to Convince Librarians to Buy your Books for their Libraries

Lecture 15: Learn Launch Strategies to Maximize Sales/Visibility for your Book's Publication

Lecture 16: A Vetted List of Contests for Self-Published Books

Lecture 17: General Tips/Warnings for New Authors

Chapter 5: Screenwriting 101

Lecture 1: Screenwriting 101: The Basics for How to Turn your Book into a Great Screenplay

Lecture 2: Conclusion

Lecture 3: Sign up for Jon LaPoma's Mailing List

Instructors

Jonathan LaPoma
Award-Winning, Bestselling Author and Secondary Teacher

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