How To Write & Publish a Print or eBook on AMAZON

Hello!

Welcome to the course!

This course is a self-study online course.

Please schedule time in your calendar to write/study daily.

I'd suggest at LEAST 2 hours a day if you can!

COURSE CONTENT:

Module 1 'How To Plan and Outline a Best-Selling Book'

Module 2: 'How To Write Your Book'

Module 3 'How To Edit and Format Your Book' - don't start this module until you have written your rough draft

'Module 4: 'Create Your Book Covers' - don't start this module until you have written your rough draft

Module 5: 'How To Publish and Print Your Book' - don't start this module until you have written your rough draft

You can speed through at your own pace, but I recommend that you get through Modules 1 and 2; then START WRITING! (Or dictating!).

Remember that your rough draft is where the magic begins.

Don't try to write perfectly in version 1.0!

Make it raw, real, ugly, messy letters on paper.

It needs to come out - like birth - a bit chaotic as it is coming out - but magical as it starts to breathe and come to life in the world outside of you.

Happy writing (or dictating!) and let's go!

Sarah x

**NOTE: These books were printed on 'Createspace', which has now been taken over by 'KDP Publishing' (Amazon's publishing platform).

So it is pretty much identical but is now a different name, as they have merged under Amazon itself.

We will go into how and where you print your hard copy books later in the course.

Please complete your activities instructed in the videos above so far, before you move to the next step.

You will need to have done the steps above before you go forward.

Aaargghh Soooooo Much Content!! How To Handle All of Those Content Ideas

Ok. Now You have a HUGE amount of post-it notes.

An entire wall full!

You're probably thinking

'Wow, this book is going to be ENORMOUS'

'How will I write about all of this?'

'Is this too big for an eBook?'

First of all - take a deep breath. Lots of content is GREAT.

Next, here are some answers to questions that students on this course have asked at this stage:

"This book looks like it's going to be too big - should I break it up or cut some stuff out?"

There is no 'right' or 'wrong' answer to this question. But here are some things to think about:

There is no rule about what size a book or eBook should be, or how many pages it should have.

A good book is not determined by it's number of pages, but by it's content.

You can look at each of your post-it note tips and explain each one in a single sentence, just as you could go into microscopic depth about each one, with case studies, recipies, examples, comparative viewpoints and much more; taking 100 pages for each tip if you so wanted to.

It's less about breaking it up, and more about 'how much do you want to explain each one?'

It's less about 'how many pages should each tip be in explanation', and instead about 'How much reading does your particular audience want to do?'.

Does it need to broken up? Or is breaking it up good for business?

I started writing my book 'Entrepreneur To Edupreneur' in 2014.

It started out as 10 tips to create an online course; that was it.

But as I started writing and engaging more with my community, I first realised that I needed to add a tip about confidence to create a course. So I started writing the chapter on confidence and the more I wrote, the more tips about confidence and motivation for course writing just started coming. I was in flow, the tips and content felt like they came from a place of passion, and so I kept writing.

By the time I finished that chapter, it was over 55,000 words!!!

So I decided to publish that chapter as a book in it's own right. ‘Awaken Your Course Creation Mojo’ went to Number 1 in my category on Amazon within 3 days.

I went back to the original book (which i KEPT this HUGE chapter, and started to write the next chapter on how to commercialise your expertise as an edupreneur. The content flowed and by the time I finished that 2nd chapter, I'd written another 50,000 words. I decided to publish that as it's own book too. ‘Millionaire Edupreneur: How to Monetize Your Skills and Expertise to 7 Figures and Beyond' is now published.

I will still include this chapter in the original book - and that one will be my 'Edupreneur Encyclopedia'. It will be my huge 'all-in-one' guide to becoming a successful course creator and edupreneur.

TEXT TO COPY-PASTE IN THE FIRST 1-3 PAGES OF YOUR BOOK:

Copyright ((YOUR NAME))

ISBN-

ISBN-1

See the back page of this book for your FREE ECOURSE

Author: Sarah Cordiner

Title: Awaken Your Course Creation Mojo

Subtitle: Beat Procrastination and Fire Up Your Course Creation Motivation

Subjects: Education; Adult Education; Learning Theory and Practice; Curriculum Design and Development, Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

Disclaimer: The material in this publication is of the nature of general comment only, and does not represent professional advice. It is not intended to provide specific guidance for particular circumstances, and it should not be relied upon as the basis for any decision to take action or not take action on any matter which it covers. Readers should obtain professional advice where appropriate, before making any such decision. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the author and publisher disclaim all responsibility and liability to any person, arising directly or indirectly from any person taking action or not taking action based on the information in this publication.

The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

Then see if you can ‘make a model’ with your chapters.

This is where you can form your unique IP or methodology or approach to achieving something. This can later become a flagship course, workshop, retreat and keynote presentation.

HOMEWORK ACTIVITY:

Can you sum up each chapter with a single word?

1. Sum up each chapter with a ‘word’

2. Rename your chapters accordingly

3. Create a chapter title page for each chapter

4. Refresh your contents page and print

Look at books you love and follow the pattern. This is a personal creative process, don’t feel like there is a right and wrong. Make your own formula and follow the same one throughout your book.

Here is a structure that I ‘sort of’ use:

• Context: Set the scene with an opening ‘story’

• Personal and Personable: The story must be relevant and ‘visually’ present the message. It must stir emotion (positive or negative), and emotion that the reader has likely experienced too

• The Purpose: Highlight the barrier, trouble or problem or principle that might be in the way to a goal you know they want that was illustrated in the story

• Theory: Back this up with some factual information, theories, statistics (left brain)

• Saviour: Then tell them broadly that there is a solution and that this is what will be explored in this chapter (prepare their expectations and make them want to read on)

• Expert: Add your unique viewpoint that either builds on or contradicts what the ‘theory’ or existing information says. Show how you are different, that your experience is special.

• The wow/how content: Then give them the recipe, the how-to, the exact step-by-step process

• Convince: Add some case studies or other people's stories to show that it's more than just you who has benefitted from adding this new information or method to their life. **ask permission to reference people and get that permission in writing. This also means that you get marketing leverage - if somebody is in the book they are likely to promote it - so try to pick people with bigger audiences!*. If you dont have case studies, give them some scenarios - fictional examples that are as likely to be like your reader’s situations as possible.

• Reinforce: Summarise the key learning points or ey message from the chapter, and reinforce why they should listen to you and why they shouldn't ignore you by reminding them of what they could gain or lose.

• Practical implementation: give them examples of what they could now do, give them some activities,

GOOGLE DOCS VOICE TYPING

Use 'Google Docs' voice typing tool on your computer OR on your mobile phone to dictate your book.

If using your phone, you will need to download the Google Docs APP (free) on your mobile.

Then just use a pair of cheap headphones with a microphone on them and start walking and talking!

MICROSOFT WORD DICTATION

You can also use the dictation tool in Microsoft Word!

Click 'download' to get your editable book templates for print and eBook

1. Choose the size that you want your book to be

2. Download the template

3. Copy-paste your book content into your new template and when you paste, select the 'use destination formatting' option

Go to Resources section to get the dimensions with the correct spine size for Amazon or to directly download from my Google Drive.

**please note that Creatspace is now taken over by KDP, so this lesson still applies, just ignore the word createspace**

Ideal dimensions for cover files are 2,560 pixels in height x 1,600 pixels in width.

The synopsis of your book is the description on the back of it.

It must be the same as the synopsis that you submit when you upload your book to Amazon KDP.

This needs to tell the reader what the book is about and what they can expect to learn from it.

Other things you could include on your back cover of your book or in your synopsis (not required):

• Photo of you

• Your bio

• Endorsements or reviews about you, your book or your work

• Business logo

• Barcode (KDP will add your barcode FOR you when you upload your book cover PDF to Amazon)