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In addition to helping authors, BGS hosts a thriving interactive community of authors and readers. We publish an online magazine featuring member books and reader reviews. BGS also runs the highly regarded annual Dublin Writer’s Conference and offers professional web-based courses on marketing, digital media, self-promotion, and other programs to support its authors.
As a way to help Indie United authors, we would like to offer our free training course for authors. Please click on the provided link below to be taken to our website where you can sign up. For non-IUPH affiliated authors, please see our current course rates on our website.
Allbooks.co offers a dynamic platform for authors of all backgrounds, whether seasoned veterans or emerging talents, to showcase their complete collection of works in chronological order. This enables readers to fully explore and appreciate the breadth of each author's literary journey. We are all about helping book lovers discover hidden literary gems, while helping to promote authors through exposure on our website and email list. If you're a published writer and want to be added to AllBooks, you can contact us via our contact page on the site.
A personal website gives your audience a place to go to learn more about you. In this guide from Lendio, we'll cover two different ways you can easily build your own website and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
On the Hunt with Anita Dickason
Anita Dickason's series, On The Hunt, provides information on issues of writing, publishing, distribution, and marketing. As an award-winning author and publisher, Anita has first-hand experience with the difficulties that all authors encounter. Her articles provide timely information on avoiding the landmines that await the unwary author.
Trust Me, I'm an Author Series
Being an Indie author can be hard, so I created this 15-episode miniseries to answer some general questions many authors have. It covers such subjects as "To Blog or Not to Blog?", "Should I KDP Select or Not?", the importance of a good book cover and why beta readers are so important to an author.
If you have any specific questions you'd like to see me address in this video series, send me an email and I'll add it to the series.
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As always, Indies United is here to help authors navigate through the confusing and sometimes frustrating publishing world.
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Happy Writing!
StoryOrigin
StoryOrigin helps you grow your email list and sell more books by making it easy to find and set up cross-promotion groups with other authors. When I asked the founder what his goals were for StoryOrigin, he said, "to be the best community platform for finding cross-promotional opportunities. Right now, that's groups sales and giveaways, but there's a lot more coming."​
Ultimate eBook Creator
Many people have a dream of being an author and wonder how to go about publishing an eBook and specifically how to self-publish on Kindle, Barnes & Noble, iBookStore, Smashword, Lulu. Well, I have some really good news for you. All you will need is the Ultimate eBook Creator - which is probably one of the best eBook creation software on the market today. You can write your eBook from scratch using the built-in professional WYSIWYG editor or, if you already have your content in a text file or word document, then you can literally import all your content into UEC, organize your content into chapters and sections and have your e-book published in less than 30 minutes (depending on how large the book is). UEC is probably the only e-book software you will ever need! It takes care of all the complex formatting and automatically generates your "Table of Contents", so all your formatting headaches are gone! You can generate for Kindle (MOBI), Barnes and Noble, iBookStore, Smashwords, LULU.com (EPUB) or generate an MS Word document or even a PDF document!
Easy Keyword Finder
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Find longtail Keywords for AMAZON, GOOGLE, ETSY
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AMAZON keyword expander, GOOGLE keyword expander, Etsy keyword expander
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Drill down on any keyword to build a keyword tree
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Longtail Keyword expander to search in normal and DEEP SCAN modes
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Uses Amazon, Google and Etsy APIs, so no web page scraping
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No monthly fee - just a one time payment
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Free lifetime of software updates
Print on Demand: A Low-Risk Way to Sell Books is an in-depth guide for indie authors who want a low cost and efficient way to get their cool books into the hands of fans. Authors can use this guide to not just get an introduction, but specific and detailed instructions as well as tips and tricks on how to go about starting out this kind of additional business successfully. It's a tried, tested and proven guide that's very honest and transparent, showing both the pros and cons so authors can decide for themselves whether or not it's the right path for them to take.
James Murdo is a London-based Science Fiction author, predominantly writing in the Space Opera and Hard Sci-Fi sub-genres. Aside from the writing itself, James is also highly interested in helping other authors automate as much of the process for bringing a book ‘to market’ as possible. The ‘Glossary Generator’ is one such tool.
MakeAWebsiteHub.com is a great resource to help authors with every step of building and maintaining their website. In addition to their website and blog building guides, they also have reviews for all of the popular website building software and web hosts to help you choose the best for your needs regardless of your budget.
Authorsunite.com helps people become successful authors. Authors Unite has helped over 1,000 people become Amazon, Barnes and Noble, USA Today, and WSJ Bestselling Authors.
WebsiteSetup.org is a free online resource for learning everything related to websites. Our goal is to help beginners to create their own website, blogs and online stores using the right tools and platforms. We wrote this SIMPLE guide to help anyone – from bloggers to small business owners – make their own website without having to learn code. You don't need to spend money on web developers and designers. Believe it or not, most of you will succeed.