Self-Publishing your Short Stories: A Manual

Self-Publishing your Short Stories: A Manual, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.7, with 46 lectures, based on 42 reviews, and has 3423 subscribers.

You will learn about How to publish your short story. Tips for self-editing your story. How to create a self-publish checklist. How to create advertisements on Amazon. How to create an online and offline presence. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginning writers. or Unpublished writers. or Writers curious as to where their stories can go. or Writers in general! It is particularly useful for Beginning writers. or Unpublished writers. or Writers curious as to where their stories can go. or Writers in general!.

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Summary

Title: Self-Publishing your Short Stories: A Manual

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 46

Number of Published Lectures: 46

Number of Curriculum Items: 46

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 46

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

How to publish your short story.
Tips for self-editing your story.
How to create a self-publish checklist.
How to create advertisements on Amazon.
How to create an online and offline presence.

Who Should Attend

Beginning writers.
Unpublished writers.
Writers curious as to where their stories can go.
Writers in general!

Target Audiences

Beginning writers.
Unpublished writers.
Writers curious as to where their stories can go.
Writers in general!

Welcome to my course on self-publishing. If you’ve taken my course on writing a short story, this acts like a continuation of that as we discuss self-publishing.

This course is designed to have three main objectives.

First: I will help you create a checklist on what needs to be done before the publishing stage, such as discussing the type of story you wish to write (if you haven’t already), editing, and even a quick discussion on blurb writing and purchasing an ISBN. This is done with one video per item on the list, for a total of thirteen items.

Second: Teach you how to upload your story to Amazon. This is fairly self-explanatory, but I will run through each item just in case to help you avoid confusion and mistakes.

Third: Marketing. Marketing your book is arguably harder than writing the book, so I will teach you how to make and run Amazon ads, how to create and build a social media presence, and how to attend book conventions.

At the end of the course, you will have the knowledge to create an e-book, write a blurb, get a cover, master keywords and categories, run ads, and understand how to market yourself.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to my course!

Chapter 2: Type of Story

Lecture 1: Short Story or Novella/Novellette

Lecture 2: Sneak Peek and First Chapter

Lecture 3: Let's Talk Erotica

Chapter 3: Before Publishing

Lecture 1: Editing: The Expensive Way

Lecture 2: Editing: The Budget Way

Lecture 3: Cover Design

Lecture 4: Formatting

Lecture 5: Blurb writing

Lecture 6: ISBN

Lecture 7: Copyright

Lecture 8: Beta Readers

Lecture 9: Running through the Final Checklist

Chapter 4: Getting Started on Self-Publishing

Lecture 1: Getting Started

Lecture 2: Logging in and Homescreen

Chapter 5: Section One: Details

Lecture 1: Language and Title

Lecture 2: Series and Edition

Lecture 3: Author and Contributors

Lecture 4: Introduction to Description

Lecture 5: Publishing Rights

Lecture 6: Introduction to Keywords

Lecture 7: Introduction to Categories

Lecture 8: Age Range/Grade Level/Pre-Order

Lecture 9: In-Depth: Description

Lecture 10: In-Depth: Keywords

Lecture 11: In-Depth: Categories

Chapter 6: Section Two: Content

Lecture 1: Upload your Manuscript

Lecture 2: Upload your Cover

Lecture 3: Launch Previewer and adding an ISBN

Lecture 4: How to use Amazon Cover Creator

Lecture 5: Cover Creation Guidelines

Chapter 7: Section Three: Pricing

Lecture 1: Introduction to KDP Select

Lecture 2: Royalty Rights in Different Countries

Lecture 3: Pricing and Royalties

Lecture 4: Matchbook Program

Lecture 5: Lending Program and Hitting Publish

Lecture 6: In-Depth: KDP Select

Chapter 8: Ads and Marketing

Lecture 1: Building an ad on Amazon Advertising

Lecture 2: Taking a Look at the Ad Graph

Chapter 9: Alternative Publishing

Lecture 1: Draft2Digital

Lecture 2: Competitions

Chapter 10: Your Presence

Lecture 1: Social Media Presence

Lecture 2: Offline Presence

Chapter 11: Writers beware!

Lecture 1: Vanity Press

Chapter 12: Reviews

Lecture 1: How to get Reviews as a Self-Published Writer

Chapter 13: Thank you for taking this course!

Lecture 1: Thank you!

Instructors

Nathaniel Mellor
Writer

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