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INDIE AUTHOR RETREAT
May 24th - 26th
Amazon's New Print Scheduling Option
Per Amazon's Announcement: We're excited to announce that starting today, October 3, 2023, you have the option to decide when your book’s detail page becomes available to readers on Amazon for your KDP paperback and hardcover books. When creating a new print book, you'll see an option to release your book now or schedule a release date. If you choose to schedule a release date, you'll be able to select a date 5 to 90 days in the future for your book to go live on Amazon. On this date, the book’s detail page will become visible at 12:00 AM GMT for readers to purchase your KDP book on Amazon everywhere you have territory rights.
With this change, author copies can only be made available for titles that have a scheduled release date and do not already have pre-order data published externally. The ISBN associated with the title will be eligible for author copy ordering when it becomes available for retail purchase without a pre-order on Amazon.
***Please note, scheduling a release date is not the same as setting a preorder for your print title, which KDP doesn’t offer for print books at this time. To learn more about release date options, supported formats, and requirements, visit our Help page: https://kdp.amazon.com/help/topic/GZUV7SNV728WT4QE
As of May 1, 2023 IngramSparks will no longer be charging setup fees.
BUT, they will start adding a 1% surcharge on every sale.
CONNECT - PROMOTE - BE DISCOVERED
Set up an Author Follow Party on social media to encourage others to like & follow you. It's also a great way to connect to each other.
Author Follow Parties
LinkTree is a great service that allows you to add an all-in-one link for social media, your website, and advertising. You can also add a donation button that we can use for the Word Fuel ads.
Does your main character have a go-to drink? Send it to Tech Cory and we'll add it to your book page. This is also a fun way to help promote your book to people on social media & at book festivals.
Signature Drinks
Letting readers get a peek inside your book is a great way to encourage readers to buy your book.
Sneak Peeks
Creating a Book Discussion Guide for book clubs, classrooms & other reading groups is a great way to market your book to those communities. Click below to download an example.
Help a Reporter Out
Sign up for this free service & if you have insight on some subject they're looking for you can get your name/book into a variety of newspapers, magazines and periodicals for free.
A book trailer is a great way to advertise your book across social media. You can create your own with Lumen5
Book Trailer
Create a playlist to go with your book & we'll add it to your book page. You can add it to your personal websites, book discussion guides, LinkTree links, and in your personal marketing.
A good resource for finding radio and podcasts that are looking for people to interview. Each posting will let you know the name of the show, their reach, if there’s a booking fee, and how to contact them.
Get your ebooks into libraries all across the US & even win prizes with them.
Have an old story or novella just sitting around gathering dust? Send it to us & we'll add it to the Free Book page. This is a great way to give readers a taste of your writing & encourage them to find more of your books.
Free Book Page
We want to brag all about you, so send us your brag worthy news. Awards, reviews, speaker panels, interviews, send us what you are proud of and we'll share it.
Indies Brag Blog
Books for Review
As a way to help Indie United authors, BSG would like to offer their free training course for authors. Please click on the BSG image above to be taken to their website where you can sign up. Use this code for access: awp2
Getting Started with IUPH
Download this Guide to help find all the resources & activities that IUPH has put together for our authors to connect to readers & gain more attention for your books & build your brand.
This will take you directly to the signup sheet for different programs that are offered in the Resource & Activity Guide
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Each quarter our authors are required to read & review a fellow IUPH author. After you have posted your review(s) report them here
Book Selling Partners
Book Selfie offers a pay-by-the-month reading app. Our authors are paid $2 per ebook download. You can also sell your physical books through them as well.
rAThe is a app that allows readers to find new books and read them in 10 to 15 minute chunks. Learn more about them & how to sell your books through their site.
Documents - for IUPH
Check List for book launches & when you should have everything sent to IUPH for a smooth book launch
You will need to fill out one of these every time you submit a new book to IUPH
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If you decided you want to add a new pen name, you will need to submit a new sheet
Documents - Publishing Prep
This PDF will give you a general idea on how to set up your book following IUPH guidelines.
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Not sure what size will work best for your book? This guide can help you choose.
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If you put your physical book into Expanded Distribution on Amazon and now want to use other distributors, you'll need to fill out this addendum.
Documents - Social Media
This PDF covers a list of events, holidays, and other literary focused days along the 2023 calendar.
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Release a new book and want to promote it? This PDF covers all of the basics for self-promotion.
This Google Doc lists all our current authors & their known social media connections. It is up to each other individually to keep this file updated.
This guide for IFTTT describes how to make automatically cross-sharing social media posts easier.
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Documents - Advertising
Ad Graphics Files
This zip file contains book images we use in advertising. You are welcome to add text to personalize images.
This zip file contains the book images we use that will show up on search engines or when you use the url link.
This zip file contains book images we use in advertising. You are welcome to add text to personalize images.
This zip file contains book images we use in advertising. You are welcome to add text to personalize images.
This zip file contains book images we use in advertising. You are welcome to add text to personalize images.
This zip file contains book images we use in advertising. You are welcome to add text to personalize images.
This zip file contains all the logos used in association with IUPH for books & advertising
IUPH Author Map
