Self Publishing

From finished manuscript to published book, the whole self-publishing journey in eight plain-English steps.

When designing your own book makes sense, when a professional is worth it, and how to choose a designer.

A book launch is not a day. Here is a simple checklist for the weeks before, launch week, and the weeks after.

You do not need a big website. Here are the five pages every author site needs, and the one feature that matters most.

A plain-English guide to formatting your book for Amazon KDP: trim sizes, margins, bleed, typography and ebook files.

Your cover has about half a second to earn the click. Here is what covers that sell get right, and the mistakes I see most often.