The other week, I invited Smashwords authors and publishers to help their fellow authors by writing a "How to Publish an Ebook on Smashwords" blog post.32 authors and publishers below shared their smarts in an engaging and diverse collection of first-person tips, tricks and experiences.
For their effort, each will receive a collector's edition Smashwords coffee mug.
If you know an author who's not yet publishing ebooks, please share this collection with them. Used in concert with our Smashwords Style Guide (the ebook formatting bible for Smashwords), these posts will make their publishing adventure faster, simpler and more enjoyable.
Smashwords Authors and Publishers Share their Smarts
- Julia Group - Publishing Wizard & Spy on Smashwords : Easy, peasey, lemon squeezee
- Kristy K. James - Helpful Tips For Getting Published On Smashwords
- AG Claymore - Publishing an eBook with Smashwords
- John H. Carroll - How to Publish and Distribute Ebooks with Smashwords
- Aaron Majewski - How to Publish and Distribute Ebooks with Smashwords
- Jeff Hendricks - Self-Pubishing eBooks with Smashwords
- Linda Pendleton (and Don Pendleton) - Ebook Publishing With Smashwords
- Red Haircrow - Sharing the Smashwords Love: My Story On Why & How I Came to Self-Publish
- Ian Thomas Healy - The Care and Feeding of THE MILKMAN: Super Secret Extra Cheesy Edition on Smashwords
- Susanna Mahoney - Smashwords.com is the first step to publish your book for the world to enjoy
- Anna Patterson - My Road to Publishing a Book
- Dennis R. Blanchard - How I published THREE HUNDRED ZEROES with Smashwords
- Kevin Domenic - How to Publish and Distribute Ebooks with Smashwords
- Carol Anita Ryan - How you can publish on Smashwords
- Wendy Maddocks - My publishing experiences with smashwords.com
- Carolyn Brown - Tips for Publishing eBooks with Smashwords!
- J.L. Murphey - Publishing Smashwords Style
- Tommie Lyn - ...about formatting for Smashwords
- John O'Brien - How I published A New World: Chaos with Smashwords
- Jaye Seay - How to Publish and Distribute Ebooks with Smashwords
- Karen Woodward - Publishing With Smashwords
- Maranda Russell - Tips for Publishing on Smashwords
- Jody Kihara - Smashwords, Formatting, and Special Characters (Em-dashes and En-dashes)
- Lillie Ammann - Publishing Ebooks on Smashwords
- D.C. Sargent - How To Tackle Smashwords
- Dr. Tae Yun Kim - How the “Seven Steps to Inner Power” ebook was Published with Smashwords!
- Cameron D. Garriepy - How to self-publish via Smashwords
- B.C. Young - How to Publish and Distribute eBooks with Smashwords
- SiewJin Christina Jee - Smashwords, a blue mug and I
- David Derrico - How To Self-Publish With Smashwords
- Ruby Barnes - Ignore Smashwords at your Peril
- Sue A. Lehman - How I Published at Smashwords!
The Customer Perspective
We received this submission from a Smashwords customer in France who blogs and writes book reviews under the name, TheSFReader. Although it's not a how-to for authors, it provides interesting perspective on why one avid ebook buyer shops first at Smashwords (and also provides copius suggestions for future Smashwords features, so thanks!).
TheSFReader - I Love Smashwords, Don't You?
My thanks to everyone above for taking the time to share their tips and tricks for the benefit of fellow authors, publishers and readers.
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25 comments:
Thanks for the mention ! In fact my post was not a "submission" as I didn't in any way "compete" for the mug.
I see you have just passed the 'three billion words published' mark.
Another billion by Christmas?
Wayne Watson
Meddlers in Time
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/6204
Thanks for listing me on this page. I appreciate it and I hope my post helps out many current and future authors. Thanks Smashwords! Looking forward to receiving my mug! B.C. Young
Thanks for inluding me in! I hope it fits.
Also the mug is optional, as I'm in Ireland.
Thanks for including me in this list. I look forward to my mug arriving in the post.
I hope my words help many future authors in their eBook publishing endeavours!
Thanks Smashwords
Carolyn Brown
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/82996?ref=CMBrown
I'm proud to be a part of this list and Smashwords! Thanks for featuring my post, it has really driven up my blog traffic some!
Thanks so much for including my blog post in this listing! I'm honored...and I'm thankful for the wonderful opportunity Smashwords provides to indie authors like me.
Awesome! I was going to do this, too and got behind... yeesh!
Couldn't have gotten to the point of submitting and publishing my eBook without the Style Book and Marketing Guide and they are FREE!Quite a learning curve but I made it.
Thank you for accepting my submission to self publish an Ebook. It has been a fun journey and I appreciated this wonderful opportunity to achieve a dream, some things are too good to be true. Smashwords is the path to self and creativity discovery all for free and when you sell your Ebook you get a commission, that would make anyone's day. Go for it, what is to lose, nothing and you open a door to fantasy escapism and see your works on the global internet,Christmas comes early for a published author.
Thank you for accepting my submission to self publish an Ebook. It has been a fun journey and I appreciated this wonderful opportunity to achieve a dream, some things are too good to be true. Smashwords is the path to self and creativity discovery all for free and when you sell your Ebook you get a commission, that would make anyone's day. Go for it, what is to lose, nothing and you open a door to fantasy escapism and see your works on the global internet,Christmas comes early for a published author.
Yay! I really wanted that mug. :)
But honestly, anything I can do to help other authors realize their dreams on Smashwords. Good luck to each and every one of you! It's such a lot of fun. :)
Thank you for accepting my submission I am getting the hot chocolate ready for the beautiful mug coming to my home. Congratulations on hitting the
three billion mark.
Yipee! I got my mug. It'll be nice, Mark Cokers, if you autograph it for me. I'm not so sure I contribute much in dishing out tips and smarts in getting books published and sold. I just want to encourage those writers with cold feet to jump into the sea of e-publishing and be exhilarated by the experience.
Thanks for including my blog! I can't wait for my mug! 'Right Now Is Perfect'
These are all excellent blog posts. It's so cool to see all these Indies working together to help each other publish and fulfill their dreams. :)
I recently helped another author with the nuclear option and walked him through how to set up his next book. Then I updated my post with that walkthrough.
http://ryallon.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-publish-and-distribute-ebooks.html
Hey, good idea.
Mark, you gotta autograph the mugs!
Or at least mine.
By the way, if you have one of those mugs, don't let your coffee get cold. There's real metal in the glaze so it won't be microwave compatible.
Or so I hear... not that I would have tried to nuke cold coffee or anything silly like that...
I mean, that would be pretty dumb, right?
Sigh.
Thanks for the reading list - perhaps you can lead me in the right direction. I want to publish image heavy instruction manuals. Which author if any provides the best guidance and what books are the best examples? I understand the basics, pixel minimum & maximum & dpi but if there are any other specific image top tips I'd be grateful.
That's it, this has made me get my book finished. Not so much for the millions of fans - I then get to write a post advising others and get myself a mug :0)
This is Jeff Hendricks, I must apologize for my article no longer being up. My host provider pulled the plug on my site, and I lost all my content! So I will work on getting another article written, simply because it's a fantastic topic. Thanks for clicking anyway!
Hi,
One of the links (Susan Mahoney's) seems broken.
Thanks for the info
Okay, I felt bad about my original article getting deleted, so I re-wrote it. It's now here:
http://jeffhendricks.net/?p=623
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