{"id":9089,"date":"2014-02-19T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2014-02-19T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:25:03","slug":"my-current-publishing-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/my-current-publishing-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My current publishing to do list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_4022-e1383338349200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8942\" alt=\"IMG_4022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_4022-e1383338349200-300x400.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>This is what my current writing space looks like. It&#8217;s hard to see, but there&#8217;s a board taped to the wall with the label &#8220;Publishing To Do.&#8221; Even though that board is right next to me whenever I&#8217;m working on stuff, I hardly ever look at it, and the tasks just keep piling up. So to put a little pressure on myself to get them done, I thought I&#8217;d list them here.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are just curious, consider this a look behind the curtain of a working self-published writer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publish Star Wanderers: Tales of the Far Outworlds (Omnibus V-VIII)<\/strong> &#8212; I actually haven&#8217;t bothered to write this one down, but since it&#8217;s the top priority task, it&#8217;s the one most likely to get done. Everything is finished except the book cover, and I&#8217;m finalizing that with the designer right now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>POD Star Wanderers: Deliverance (Part VIII)<\/strong> &#8212; &#8220;POD&#8221; means &#8220;print-on-demand.&#8221; All the other <strong>Star Wanderers<\/strong> books are out in print now, except for this one. Coming soon!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optimize keywords<\/strong> &#8212; There are a bazillion things I need to do to <a href=\"https:\/\/kdp.amazon.com\/help?topicId=A2EZES9JAJ6H02\" target=\"_blank\">optimize my keywords<\/a> on Amazon, <a href=\"http:\/\/mlouisalocke.com\/2013\/12\/16\/how-to-get-your-books-into-the-right-categories-and-sub-categories-readers-to-booksbooks-to-readers-part-three\/\" target=\"_blank\">as I learned just recently<\/a>. Better get on that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optimize categories<\/strong> &#8212; Same as above. <a href=\"https:\/\/kdp.amazon.com\/help?topicId=A200PDGPEIQX41\" target=\"_blank\">Starting here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upload books to DriveThru Fiction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Figure out how to format PDFs for DriveThru Fiction<\/strong> &#8212; I hear that customers at DriveThru Fiction like to buy PDFs that they can print out and bind as books themselves. I have no idea how to format that sort of thing, so I need to find out from someone more knowledgeable than me and figure out how to do that. For all of my books. Blargh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upload books to ARe\/Omnilit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Upload books to Xinxii<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Upload books to Google Play<\/strong> &#8212; The main reason I haven&#8217;t uploaded my books to these sites is because I&#8217;m going to be getting new covers for all the <strong>Star Wanderers<\/strong> books soon. Why do something twice if you only have to do it once? But yeah, I should probably just take a day or two and upload all the current versions anyway.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update Amazon Book Descriptions via Author Central<\/strong> &#8212; This is made complicated by the fact that there are separate Author Central pages for each Amazon store. AARGH.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Figure out Amazon Affiliate Program<\/strong> &#8212; I am probably leaving a fair amount of money on the table by not putting those affiliate tags on each of my Amazon links, so yeah, better get on that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donate books to the Provo Library<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;ll take them, though. My roommate says they won&#8217;t, but my brother-in-law&#8217;s father works there, so maybe he can help me find a connection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donate books to the HBLL<\/strong> &#8212; Since I&#8217;m a BYU alum, I&#8217;m pretty sure I can convince them to take my books. I&#8217;ve seen other self-published stuff in there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>POD Star Wanderers Omnibuses<\/strong> &#8212; Since I need to get new covers for all the individual ones first, this one falls kind of low on the list.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Figure out distribution on Xinxii<\/strong> &#8212; I heard from somewhere that they do free ISBNs now. Then again, that might have been a holiday deal. Either way, it&#8217;s something to look into&#8211;after I upload all my books there, of course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fill out Smashwords interview<\/strong> &#8212; This will probably be the funnest thing to do on this list.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add books to <a href=\"http:\/\/findreadlove.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find Read Love<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; As well as any other book sites that are awesome.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get active on Goodreads<\/strong> &#8212; If there&#8217;s any social media site that isn&#8217;t a waste of time, it&#8217;s probably Goodreads. I should try to be a more active user of that site, not just as a writer but as a reader. For starters, I should transfer all of the stuff from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?page_id=102\">my book review section<\/a> and join some groups that look particularly interesting. I&#8217;m already a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/4170-the-sword-and-laser\" target=\"_blank\">Sword &amp; Laser<\/a>, but I haven&#8217;t done anything more than introduce myself on the forums. I listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/swordandlaser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">their podcast<\/a>, though, and really love it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the list, more or less. I would absolutely love it if I had an assistant who could take care of this stuff, but I&#8217;m not currently making enough to hire one, and it would just be weird to take on an intern. Besides, the main reason I haven&#8217;t done any of this stuff yet is because I&#8217;m lazy. If I did a bit here and there, I could probably knock it all out in a couple of months. Maybe if I made a new personal rule to do something from this list before logging on to Steam? Hmm &#8230; that might actually work.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, that&#8217;s what the publishing side looks like around here. When you&#8217;re self-published, you more or less have to do all of this yourself. It can be a chore sometimes, but it still beats writing personalized query letters. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what my current writing space looks like. It&#8217;s hard to see, but there&#8217;s a board taped to the wall with the label &#8220;Publishing To Do.&#8221; Even though that board is right next to me whenever I&#8217;m working on stuff, I hardly ever look at it, and the tasks just keep piling up. So&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/my-current-publishing-to-do-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My current publishing to do list<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Publishing To Do list of a working self-published writer #amwriting #ampublishing","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[857],"tags":[529,843,860,901],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sw","tag-indie-publishing","tag-print-on-demand","tag-publishing-advice","tag-writing-space","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2mB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}