If you are still procrastinating on launching your publishing adventure because you are not sure of being able to finish or write a full novel as your first book, then you can start out by writing and publishing short stories. After your have mastered the fundamentals of writing and publishing through these short stories, you can then start writing and publishing full novels.

People normally ask questions on keywords when publishing their books. To get your keywords right, you need to have an understanding of search engine optimization.

Secondly, you need to put yourself in the place of a potential buyer and imagine what appropriate keywords you will used in searching for the book if you were searching for it on the Internet.

If you have been focusing your publishing endeavor only on Amazon KDP, it is high time you try out Draft2Digital too. Yes, I mean Draft2Digital!

Don't get me wrong! Amazon is great, it is the best and leader out there. But Draft2Digital is a bae too. Guest what? In whatever you do, multiple sources is always the best. So, strategize your writing and publishing such that you simultaneously publish your books through both platforms. For this to be possible, avoid the KDP's KU program!

How to Add a New Book to Your Published books Backlist in your Amazon Authorcentral profile:

While on Amazon author central, click on the menu "Books" and you will see a link "Add more books" click on it, input the ASIN of the book in the field provided, click on the "Add" button and it will be added to the catalog of your published books.

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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). Regional winners each receive £2,500 and the opportunity to be published online by Granta magazine, and the overall winner receives £5,000. 

The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country who is aged 18 and over. 

The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for online entries until 1 November 2020.

https://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cssp-2021/?q=%2Fr%2F4eaefda3a9cb663b6cc38397b&utm_source=September+2020+-+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter+-+Readers&utm_campaign=Weekly+Email

ON KEYWORDS
People normally ask questions on keywords when publishing their books. To get your keywords right, you need to have an understanding of search engine optimization.
Secondly, you need to put yourself in the place of a potential buyer and imagine what appropriate keywords you will used in searching for the book if you were searching for it on the Internet.

What do you think was responsible for DRAFT2DIGITAL purging Nigerians from their publishing platform and refusing to pay them their already earned royalties?

You can use this message format to inform Amazon KDP to help link both eBook and paperback editions of your published books:

Hello, hope you are great? My books have been published for more than a week now, but the ebook and paperback editions have not been linked and I will appreciate if you help out with this. Below are the ASIN details for both editions of the book.
ebook ASIN is .... and Print ASIN is .....

Thanks!

Success in book writing and publishing be it through Amazon KDP or any other digital platform is a game of numbers that is the more books you published, the greater your chances of financial success.

Tgis is how KDP works:
You write the manuscript, edit it, format it, and design a professional Cover for it. You then create account with KDP and publish it. You are paid Royalties on each unit sales.
There are two types of royalties 35% and 70% of the list price.
As for receiving the payment, you use Payoneer.

When writing nonfiction books that you will publish through Amazon KDP, make sure you don't do mindless lifting of content from the Internet to avoid problems that can lead to termination of your publishing account.

How to Claim your book and add to your Amazon AuthoCentral profile: You can go to Amazon AuthoCentral through this link https://authorcentral.amazon.com/

While on author central, click on the menu "Books" and you will see a link "Add more books" click on it, input the ASIN and click on the Add button and it will be added to the catalog of your published books. Do this for both edition of your book (eBook and paperback).

When designing the print or paperback cover of a book, the most important parameters or required information are: Trim size and number of pages of the book.

Your book Cover should be genre specific and professional, and your book content must be informative if it is nonfiction and addictive if fiction, properly edited and formatted.