KDP Best Practices with Ruth Schwartz, Book Midwife – October 3, 2020

BAIPA monthly meetings are now exclusively on Zoom, at least until we get through this COVID-19 crisis. The Zoom links will be provided to you via email on the Friday evening before 9 PM. So you MUST register in advance in order to participate.

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The general meeting begins at 9 am, speaker presentation is at 11 am, after Q&A, networking time, introductions & announcements. Scroll down for details and to register. No afternoon workshop for this meeting.

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MORNING PRESENTATION:

Best Practices with KDP

Ruth Schwartz, Book Midwife and Self-Publishing Consultant

How to get the most self-publishing juice out of using KDP for your print and ebook editions

When you are starting down the self-publishing path, KDP is a good choice most of the time. We will talk about the pros and cons, as well as touch on when to use IngramSpark.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

Maximizing Author Central and Amazon Book Descriptions

In the afternoon session, Ruth will walk you through the ins and outs of Author Central accounts—which you cannot do until you have your first book up on Amazon—as well as how to maximize your book descriptions.

She will cover:

• Author Central basics: what is the minimum you should add to your Author Central account when you first set it up.

• Review all of the major Author Central features and how to use them

• Learn how to take advantage of best practices around an effective KDP book description, including some simple html coding to create a larger headline, bold type, and separate paragraphs.

About Our Speaker

As a Book Midwife, Ruth helps self-publishing authors get clear about the steps needed to turn out a professional book that looks as good as anything coming from a traditional publisher. Ruth helps authors get past the stuck places, getting through the decision-making and design process quickly, birthing their books with ease.

She works with authors to turn finished manuscripts into finished books, complete with professional cover design, interior layout, and ebook editions—all up online and available for sale.

Ruth brings over 50 years of book publishing, design and printing industry experience to every author’s project and has worked on over 150 independently-published books since 2012 when print on demand technology enabled the current indie publishing revolution.