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10 Amazing Trends For Book Cover Design
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10 Amazing Trends For Book Cover Design

Here are 10 book cover design trends to help get your book noticed and sold.

Kandy Ostrosky travel book author
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Author Interview with traveloguer Kandy Ostrosky

Memoirst Kandy Ostrosky shares the story behind her self-publishing journey and passions for travel and volunteering.

KDP Jumpstart Amazon
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Free Self-Publishing Advice from Amazon KDP

KDP Jumpstart is a free Self-Publishing resource from Amazon KDP.

Back after hiatus
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Back after Hiatus

I’m back from hiatus eager to create more compelling blog posts and podcasts

5 Tips for Writing a Travel Journal to turn into a Book
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5 Tips for Writing a Travel Journal to turn into a Book

5 Tips for Writing a Travel Journal that make it easer to turn into a Book

Alyson Sheldrake Algarve
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Author Interview with Memoirst Alyson Sheldrake

Algarve expat Alyson Sheldrake shares her publishing journey for her Portugal themed travel memoirs.

Amazon Book Categories
Posted in Book Marketing & Promotion Book Production

How to See Your Book Categories

Dave Chesson over at Kindlepreneur just published this video. It’s under 4 minutes and has some key information in it….

Insight Guides Case Study for Travel Guide Covers
Posted in Book Design How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Insight Guides

This case study looks at how Insight Guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

8 Simple tips for editing your book
Posted in Writing Tips

8 Simple Tips For Editing Your Own Book

Here are 8 simple tips to follow to make light work of your editing work. Editing your own book is a challenge but, by giving your work a close reading, you can become a better writer.

Should you use a Fiverr Designer for your Book Cover?
Posted in Book Design How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Should you use a Fiverr Designer for your Book Cover?

Indie Author Dale L. Roberts conducted a cover design experiment on Fiverr which ended in success. Is it an option for you?

Frommer's Travel Guide Cover Case Study
Posted in Book Design How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Frommer’s

This case study looks at how Frommer’s designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #5
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Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #5

These Book Marketing tips are for indie authors looking to get the biggest impact with the smallest budget.

Ruth Hampson Author
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Author Interview with Memoirst Ruth Hampson

Memoirst Ruth Hampson shares the story behind her self-publishing experience for her part memoir, part travelogue.

Adventure Nomads and Guide for Digital Nomads
Posted in The Nomadic Times

Extreme Nomads: A Guide to the Ultimate Adventure Lifestyle

Nomadic Times contributor, Indiana Lee, shares her tips for balancing an adventure lifestyle and being a digital nomad

How to Schedule your Bargain Booksy Promotion
Posted in Book Marketing & Promotion

How to Schedule your Bargain Booksy Promotion

A step by step process for scheduling your Bargain Booksy Promotion. With Tips for setting your pricing strategy.

Play your book for less - countdown deal
Posted in How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Buy Book One for 99c

Book One in my How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide series has been reduced from $5.99 to .99c…

One Travel Writer's Journey for a Professional Line Edit
Posted in Book Production How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

One Travel Writer’s Journey for a Professional Line Edit (Part 3)

Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of working with an editor. She shares the lessons she learned during the line editing process

Using Bargain Booksy to Promote your Nonfiction Book
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Using Bargain Booksy to Promote your Nonfiction Book

A low cost alternative to BookBub that helps authors promote their nonfiction books to readers in their niche

Marco Polo Cover design case study
Posted in Book Design How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Marco Polo

This case study looks at how Marco Polo guides designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Amazon KDP now prefers an EPUB file
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Newsflash: Amazon KDP now prefers an EPUB file

Book formatting just got easier—Amazon now recommends providing an EPUB file for publishing instead of a file in their proprietary MOBI format.

Two Effective Book Promo Sites for NONFICTION books
Posted in Book Marketing & Promotion

Use Freebooksy or Bargain Booksy to promote your Travel Book

Freebooksy and Bargain Booksy are two promotional sites that give you the opportunity of featuring your book when you’re offering it for free or if the purchase price is less than $5.

Researching the Budget Travel Guide Category
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Researching the Budget Travel Guide Category

I’m focused on updating and optimizing my Amazon Categories and Keywords, here’s how I evaluated Budget Travel using two online tools.

A-Z Travel writing tips - Journalism and Journaling
Posted in A-Z Travel Writing Tips Writing Tips

A-Z of Travel Writing Tips: J is for Journaling and Journalism

Travel Writing Prompts: J is for Journaling and Journalism. Use these Travel Writing Prompts to make it easier to connect with your readers. No matter what you’re writing.

DK eyewitness travel Cover design case study
Posted in Book Design How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: DK Eyewitness Travel

This case study looks at how DK guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover, including the use of contrasting colors.

Mike Miller Author Interview Florida Travel Guides
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Author Interview with Destination Travel Writer Mike Miller

Florida Travel Guide Authors shares the steps he took to turn his travel blog into a series of self-published travel guides to reach a broader audience.

IngramSpark Promo Code 2020
Posted in Book Production

Newsflash: IngramSpark Discount Code

IngramSpark are offering free title uploads which will save you money. Usually they charge a per title fee for any ebook and paperback you upload.

Ep#40: Travel Writing details you need to capture when you're fast drafting
Posted in Podcast: How Travel Writers Self-Publish Writing Tips

How Travel Writers Self Publish Podcast Ep#40: Travel Writing details you need to capture when you’re fast drafting

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale continues the discussion about fast drafting and this episode focuses on what to Fast Draft.

Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #4
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Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #4

We interviewed 10 travel writers to get their take on marketing and promoting their travel book. Find out which techniques have worked to sell more books and reach more readers.

One Travel Writer's Journey for a Professional Line Edit
Posted in Book Production How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

One Travel Writer’s Journey for a Professional Line Edit (Part 2)

Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of finding an editor. She shares the lessons she learned during the process of writing and editing her first book.

Ep#39: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. C is for Clichés, Conversational, Cadence, and Cycle
Posted in A-Z Travel Writing Tips Podcast: How Travel Writers Self-Publish

How Travel Writers Self Publish Podcast Ep#39: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. C is for Clichés, Conversational, Cadence, and Cycle

Each episode in the A to Z podcast series provides you with inspiration to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. Today we’re covering the letter C. 

News Flash Amazon Ads available in Canada and Australia
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Newsflash: Amazon Ads are now available in Canada and Australia

KDP have just announced that authors can now use Amazon Advertising’s Sponsored Products ads to reach readers in Canada and Australia.

Jane Dunning Stolen Summer Author Interview
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Author Interview with Travel Fiction Writer Jane Dunning

Travel Fiction Writer Jane Dunning shares the inspiration and her first-hand experience of writing a three book series. Find out what self-publishing and travel writing lessons she’s learnt along the way.

5 Reasons to contribute to an anthology Jon Doolan
Posted in Writing Tips

5 Reasons to Contribute to an Anthology

Jon Doolan is the editor and publisher of an Adventure Anthology series, and in this guest post he shares 5 reasons why it’s a good idea for writers to contribute to an anthology.

Do You Have What It Takes to be a Travel Writer?
Posted in Writing Tools

Take this Quiz – Do You Have What It Takes to be a Travel Writer?

Take this quiz to assess whether you have what it takes to become a travel writer.

How to add your Book to 10 Amazon Categories
Posted in Book Marketing & Promotion

Author Toolbox: How to add your Book to 10 Amazon Categories

Did you know you can list your book in up to 10 Amazon Categories? Forget just choosing 3 when you set up your book. Do your research and increase your chances of being discovered by asking Amazon to add your book to additional relevant categories

Creating a Financial Plan for your Digital Nomadic Lifestyle
Posted in The Nomadic Times

Creating a Financial Plan for your Digital Nomadic Lifestyle

Have you written your financial action plan to support your life on the road as a Digital Nomad? Nomadic Times contributor Rebecca shows you how to approach putting your plan together.

How I got my books to #1 and #2 on Amazon
Posted in Book Marketing & Promotion How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

How I got my Books to #1 and #2 on Amazon

I put together this metadata case study to use the Amazon KDP strategies I’ve been learning about to see whether I tweaking my categories and keywords can improve my category ranking.

One Travel Writer's Journey for a Professional Line Edit
Posted in Book Production How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

One Travel Writer’s Journey for a Professional Line Edit (Part 1)

Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of whether or not she needs a professional line edit. She shares the lessons she learned during the process of writing and editing her first book.

Ep#38: An Introduction to the art of Fast Drafting for Travel Writers
Posted in Podcast: How Travel Writers Self-Publish

How Travel Writers Self Publish Podcast Ep#38: An Introduction to the art of Fast Drafting for Travel Writers

In this 10-minute podcast we cover how my fast drafting technique will help you streamline your note taking tasks while you’re traveling, so that you can spend more time exploring and less time writing.

Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #3
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Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #3

We interviewed 10 travel writers to get their take on marketing and promoting their travel book. Find out which techniques have worked to sell more books and reach more readers.

Build your Travel Blog Community with Blog Commenting
Posted in Travel Blog Advice

Build your Travel Blog Community with Blog Commenting

How to build a reputation for your content by attracting blog comments on your travel articles, and where to find groups to help you get them.

Researching How to Market your Book
Posted in Book Marketing & Promotion How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

Researching How to Market your Book

There’s no way I could write a book to provide advice on marketing your travel related book, unless I’d tried them as part of my own book marketing activities. Includes a list of Amazon’s top 100 books in this category.

Fast Drafting Write More in Less Time
Posted in Writing Tips

Write More in Less Time with Fast Drafting

In order to be a successful note-taker you need to start using a fast drafting technique. This will establish a habit to capture the daily events before you forget them.

New Vellum Features Internal Linking
Posted in Book Production

Adding Internal Links to your Nonfiction Books in Vellum

I was excited to discover that Vellum book formatting software has a couple of great new features: Internal Linking and Sub Headings included in your Table of Contents.

What stories are in your Travel Guide?
Posted in How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide Writing Tips

What Stories are in your Travel Guide?

Travel guides are based on facts and information, but in order to hook your reader you need to add personal stories and anecdotes for them to be able to relate to you. This is your competitive advantage, so it’s important to use this approach.

Free tool to create a 3d book cover mock up
Posted in Author Resources Book Marketing & Promotion

How to create a Free 3D Book Cover Mock Up

Here’s a free tool to help you create mock up cover images on a phone, ereader, and a paperback. Multiple layouts to choose from.

Do you choose your genre in advance?
Posted in Writing Tips

IWSG Writing Prompt: Do you Choose your Genre in Advance?

This month’s writing prompt from #IWSG is about whether you choose your writing prompt in advance. Read about my about-turn in my latest travel guide.

Ep#37: Travel Memoir Writing Inspiration (Guest: Carol Duval)
Posted in Author Interviews Podcast: How Travel Writers Self-Publish

How Travel Writers Self Publish Podcast Ep#37: Travel Memoir Writing Inspiration (Guest: Carol Duval)

In this 20-minute show we chat with blogger and freelance writer, Carol Duval, who house sat around the globe with her husband and wrote a memoir about their adventures.

Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writer #2
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Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers #2

We interviewed 10 travel writers to get their take on marketing and promoting their travel book. Find out which techniques have worked to sell more books and reach more readers

How Travel Writers Self-Publish #36
Posted in A-Z Travel Writing Tips Podcast: How Travel Writers Self-Publish

How Travel Writers Self Publish Podcast Ep#36: A-Z of Travel Writing Tips. B is for Beginning, Bounce, Books, and Blog

In this podcast episode we continues our A to Z travel writing tips series by focusing on writing prompts and activities beginning with B.