Still on writing: Let your book research ideas remain at that level and it should only act as a guide to you. Hence, never copy and paste any part of it into your book project.

As an independent author, using Facebook book groups to promote your published books by posting their links in them is very effective in generating sales.

Important Book Writing Tips and Guides with respect to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing:

http://ebookstrati..com/2017/08/book-writing-tips-and-guides.html?m=1

Writing a great book is the most important book marketing strategy!

Making the transition to a full-time writer does not happen overnight, it takes time, consistency and hard work!

So, don't be in a rush to quit your full-time work for writing but make writing and publishing a side gig until it can pay the bills and more. You can then quit your work to focus on writing.

One of the best success strategies of independent authors is "writing to market" that is writing in a genre or subgenre that is currently selling very well and not just writing what you love to write about. To find out these genre, study Amazon "best seller" lists and see if you Chun out some good books in those niches.

To avoid the experience of having your KDP Publishing account being terminated by Amazon, one thing you must not do is accessing or operating more than one KDP Publishing account using one Computer or PC.

Writers finds inspiration in different ways. So,
what inspired the concept behind your latest book?

Two strategies that have greatly enhanced my indie publishing career and increased my earnings are as follows:

1. Writing and publishing more books.
2. Increasing the rate I promote my published books through social media.

As simple as these strategies may appeared to be, they are very effective.

As long as you are good at writing and you have manuscripts of books already typeset and edited, you can prepare and publish them as eBooks and distribute through worldwide digital book distributors and make some money.

As a Nigerian writer/author who wants to publish books through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, you must write books that appeals to global audience and not local or Nigerian audience! This is because the target markets out there on Amazon are predominantly the Americans, Europeans, and Asians.

Also, it is advisable to use a pen name as the author name instead of using your official name. The said pen name should be western in nature but abstract that is hardly any trace of any existing bearer e.g Midjet Astronij.

An online presence offers another way to keep in touch with your readers. So, you need to creatively use social media to market your digitally published books.

Amazon kdp is still a sustainable means of online business.

Make sure your book Cover is genre specific and professional, and your book content is informative if it is a nonfiction and addictive if it is fiction, and that it is properly edited and formatted.

If you intend to write and publish books through Amazon KDP, it is good you read good books in the genre you write or interested in writing so that you know the structure and settings of such books as well as the expectations readers.

Writers finds inspiration in different ways. So,
what inspired the concept behind your latest book?

Being a writer is a source of joy and creativity just like being a published author is a source of fulfilment and pride. But in all, being an author whose books are selling is the climax.

Thanks to digital publishing and then Amazon the Largest digital publishing platform, an author can now easily monetize his/her craft. The following are five tips that will enable a Nigerian author get the best publishing on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).

1. Write books that has the Potential of Selling: This is the most important factor. Ask yourself the question "Will I be willing to put my money on this book if it were written by another author?" Your answer to this question will help you to have a realistic value/potential of the book. If the book has information or entertainment value that will make you buy it, then others can too.

2. Properly edit and Proofread it: This will further enhance it value and chances of success.

3. Set a right and reasonable Price for it: quantify the book to know what price to set it at. Don't be greedy by thinking that you are targeting westerners and hence you have to price high. Those people are as careful in spending as you do. To properly quantify it, compare it with similar books by other successful authors in your genre.

4. Properly format the content of the book to Amazon KDP's standard and design a professional cover for it: These two components are the packaging aspects of the book product. And you know the importance of packaging in sales conversion.

5. Promotion/Marketing: This is also very important. But as a newly published author, you can successfully use Facebook book groups to great advantage in marketing your books for free. Also, once you have made enough sales, you can reinvest some of it into the business by making use of Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) to promote your books.

One of the best success strategies of independent authors is "writing to market" that is writing in a genre or subgenre that is currently selling very well and not just writing what you love to write about. To find out these genre, study Amazon "best seller" list.

Author and Writing Resources: List of Author and Writing resources that will be of great help to you.
http://ebookstrati..com/p/writing-resources.html?m=1

Do you know how to research which words people use? Do you know how to select keywords for your fiction book to help you sell more?

To learn what terms readers use when searching for a new book and discover how to incorporate them into a keyword strategy for your fiction releases, read this post!

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To learn what terms readers use when searching for a new book and discover how to incorporate them into a keyword strategy for your fiction releases, read this post!

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One of the best success strategies of independent authors is "writing to market" that is writing in a genre or subgenre that is currently selling very well and not just writing what you love to write about. To find out these genre, study Amazon "best seller" lists.

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.

Some sure ways to enhance your independent publishing experience are:

1. Connecting with and sharing ideas with other authors to get to understand what they are doing right that you can learn from.

2. Joining author Facebook groups and hence socialize with other self-published authors.

3. Join book specific social media platforms like Goodreads, Kboard and Facebook book groups.

You might want to know the best eBook publishing platforms you can use to publish and distribute your books. The most important ones are:

1. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
2. Lulu
3. Streetlib
4. Publishdrive

Note that Amazon is the leader in the digital book publishing industry with over 60% of the publishing market share.

At STC, we offer book formatting and cover design services for digital book publishing on Amazon KDP, D2D, etc.

These are my standard rates!

1. eBook formatting only (for Amazon I.e MS Word formatted document) at #2200
2. Paperback (print) Book formatting at #2500 only.
3. Both eBook and paperback formatting at #5000 only.
4. epub formatting at #2300 only.
5. Converting to epub format at #1000 only.
6. eBook cover design at #2500 only
7. Paperback (print) Book cover design at #2800 only.
8. Both eBook and paperback cover design at #5000 only.
9. Both eBook cover design and eBook formatting at #4000 only.
10. Both paperback cover design and paperback formatting at #5000 only.

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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.

As a Nigerian writer/author who wants to publish books through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, you must write books that appeals to global audience and not local or Nigerian audience! This is because the target markets out there on Amazon are predominantly the Americans, Europeans, and Asians.