Self-Publishing a Photo Book

The holiday season is nothing if not visual. Decorations, family celebrations, snowy scenes… Christmas might be the most photographed holiday of the year. You can post your pictures online and enjoy immediate feedback, but there’s something about seeing your photos in a permanent, tangible collection. Today, AuthorHouse presents tips for seeing your pictures in a book instead of on a laptop screen.Seek objective opinions about your work. Post samples online and read the comments–some of them might sting a little, but is the criticism valid?Try postcards. Postcards are a great way of gauging

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Five Tips for Self-Publishing a Cookbook

Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and many of our readers have some serious kitchen-time ahead of them. With that in mind, AuthorHouse presents some tips for self-publishing cookbooks! Pick a unique angle. What niche would you like to focus on? Whether it’s a particular culture, ingredient, or diet plan, try to find a focus that will make your book stand out.Provide background. Tell the reader a little about the dishes in your book. Just as a bit of history adds flavor to a location, it also adds flavor (pun intended) to your cookbook!Try blogging. A blog is a great way to refine your wri

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10 Top Tips for Writing Horror

With Halloween upon us, what better time to curl up and read a good ghost story—or write one! Today, AuthorHouse presents ten tips for ratcheting up the tension in your own self-published horror tale. Make your readers care about your characters (before you kill them off.) If you want your readers to be concerned about the fate of your characters (which helps create tension), they have to care about them! Don’t create cardboard characters whose names might as well be “victim #1,” “victim #2,” etc. Try to pick situations that could happen to your reader. What’s one reason that Psycho’s s

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How Can I Write and Publish My Biography or Memoir?

Hopefully we all think that our lives (or the lives of our loved ones) are interesting, with anecdotes and experiences worth saving for future generations. Although there are many ways of passing on our stories, many people find that a biography or memoir is ideal. At AuthorHouse, we can help you share your memories and enrich the lives of your family, friends, and those that come after you. We’ll assist you as you share your hopes and dreams, triumphs and tragedies, mistakes and lessons learned. We’ll guide you at every step of the memoir publishing process, including:Editing your manuscrip

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5 Self-Publishing Mistakes

Today, AuthorHouse presents five common self-publishing pitfalls—and how you can avoid them! Handling your own cover design. Unless you have a background in design, this is definitely something you should leave to a professional. Find someone that has experience designing book covers (preferably someone who specializes in covers for your book’s genre.) Like it or not, many readers will judge your book by its cover. A good one can be had for a few hundred dollars, and is one of the best investments you can make in self-publishing.Using “novelty” typefaces, either in the book or on the cove

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AuthorHouse says, “Social Media Profiles Can Help Make Your Brand”

There are 3 reasons why publishing companies make and maintain social media profiles at sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, G+ (Google plus) and YouTube. Social media channels allow AuthorHouse to create brand awareness. Through interesting images and contests, we can get more visitors and encourage them to interact and share AuthorHouse posts (to create trends and virality.) In addition, social media provides an avenue for customers to contact us with their questions and concerns.But answering these questions, we can create trust while assisting them in publishing their book—whether i

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How Author Can Become Bloggers

Being a self-published author is a great profession, but success is by no means easy to reach. You can spread the work about your book locally through book signings and speaking engagements, but you can also market and promote your book worldwide through social media on the internet. AuthorHouse presents you with 3 tips for authors on how to become bloggers–to talk about not only your book, but yourself as well. First, in order to have a place to write, you’ll need to set up a free or paid profile account. Try to use a domain name that identifies your site with your subject (not always easy,

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Tips for Writing Your Autobiography

In our last installment, AuthorHouse presented our self-publishing writers with five tips for writing biographies. This time, we’d like to shift focus a little, and let the author turn the camera (or the keyboard) towards herself. In other words, we’d like to discuss autobiographies!With an autobiography, the amount and type of research will differ from a biography. After all, you are the subject; while you might require interviews to clear up hazy memories, or to solicit the occasional opinion or impression, you already have access to the best source of information: yourself. Here, then, a

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5 Book Cover Design Tips

You’ve spent months, even years, crafting every word of your 100,000 word manuscript. And the results of this labor of love? A few hundred pages of characters development, plot twists, and hours of entertainment for your reader.And how long do you have to sell your book to that reader? A second or two—if you’re lucky. A brief glance as he or she glides along a bookshelf or clicks through web pages. That’s it. Sell it fast, or don’t sell it at all. And what sells that book? As much as we don’t like to admit it, it’s the cover. That sheet of paper, that single piece of artwork, that sits on top

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5 Facts about Copyrights

How do you copyright your book? Do you have to register for a copyright? What’s a “poor man’s copyright?” Authors tend to have many questions and misconceptions about copyrights, and understandably so; after all, most of us are writers, not lawyers.With this in mind, we’d like to present five tips and facts about copyrights. Talk to a lawyer that specializes in copyright law. This is the most important tip. If you ever require the best possible advice, talk to a lawyer that specializes in copyright law. No amount of web searching is a substitute for this.You’re protected by copyright law w

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