There is a coffee promotion going on at my neighborhood coffee shop. Specialty coffees are a dollar each. Great! This morning I had a small cappuccino for one dollar! All my coffee colleagues are having second cups!
Do you remember Brian at the coffee shop? Yes, the young man whom I had given basic writing advice? Since then he has written a manuscript. Yay!
I self-publish through Amazon Createspace/KDP. And I need to say right up front, I bless the day I discovered these two publishing platforms.
When Brian asked me what his next steps should be, I told Brian that everything (and more) that he needs to know about releasing a finished book is available through the Createspace/KDP self-publishing process. I walked him through registration at Createspace and his eyes became bright with excitement when he saw his own ISBN number. Brian is a smart young man for I had no need to walk him further; he navigated the entire process (which is made easy through Createspace/KDP). He’s on his own now…he’ll make his own discoveries…he’ll be self-taught by Createspace/KDP as he moves along. No. I’ve not yet hit the best seller list but amazon has given me some free marketing tools to get there.
From time to time I am asked: “How do you publish your books Olive?” I answer: “Log into CREATESPACE and the rest is your history”
Olive Rose Steele – Author
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