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Review Of The Year 2015 & Plans For 2016

December 31, 2015 By Robert Corrigan 6 Comments

Sometimes you just get a major shock, much like the one that I got when I started to write this blog post. You see the last time I posted on it was 8 months ago!

I knew it had been a while but it really did come as a big shock.,,

Anyway 2015 has seen some big changes in my life on a personal and professional level. I have moved home which was a major change, its unreal the amount of things that we accumulate over the years. Then comes the big decision about what is worth keeping, what can be reused by someone else and what really needs to be tipped.

The great thing about my move is that I have considerably more space and for the first time in 15 years a dedicated office. I am refitting the new place gradually and the office is very nearly done.

During 2015, I also have completed 4 products, including the long winded Kindle product, The ePublishing Roadmap. This was launched at the end of September and went on to gross over $6,000 during the five day launch.

It was also awarded the prestigious product of the day by JV Zoo and even beat the Rich Jerk!

I have also completely revamped, my flagship eBay product Plugin Auction Profits, this is scheduled for re-launch during April of 12016. More details closer to the time.

Also complete is a product in a software niche which I hope to launch in Feb/March, but before that at the end of Jan I am launching a product with my good friend Steve King concerning eBay. Did I tell you I am big into eBay?

No clues!!! Oh ok then, take a look at the graphic. This is an amazing little niche on eBay and just so simple to do it defies description.

I am also working on a few other products with Steve for release in the coming months.

So a busy year ahead on all fronts.

May I take this opportunity to wish all peace and prosperity in the coming year.

How To Become An Author

July 7, 2014 By Robert Corrigan Leave a Comment

It used to be so hard to become a published author, write the book, send it to a lot of different publishers wait for the rejections to come in and repeat the process for as long as it takes to get fed up.

There has always been the option to self publish, in the past this has been an expensive option, companies such as Lulu grew up to offer POD (print on demand) services, Lulu was the market leader until Amazon acquired its own POD, Create Space. These companies allow anyone to publish their work for a minimal cost, so the barriers to publishing in print have been eroded. But the real seismic shift has been in E-Publishing the range of E-Reading devices is huge and the demand for content voracious.

Amazon really has created a revolution in publishing with it’s Kindle platform, recent figures from Amazon tell the tale. For every 100 physical books sold on Amazon there are 105 Kindle books sold. It is estimated that Amazon has sold in excess of 10 Million Kindles. Now that creates an opportunity, because Amazon needs content and lots of it. This is how we will start to make our money.

Amazon has levelled the playing field for small publishers (that’s you and me) by allowing anyone to publish on Kindle and Create Space without it costing a penny. That removes all the barriers to self publishing that has stopped so many people from succeeding.

The traditional route of approaching publishers suffering rejection often for years on end is over. This has allowed some people to make their entire income publishing on Kindle. Read about the very rich Indie Writer.

But however you cut it Amazon is only about 50% of the whole eBook market as there are considerable sales made on iTunes, Google Play, Kobo, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble as well as on smaller eBook sites.

The above examples are just the big name players there are plenty of specialized book publishers that can distribute an authors work in the same manner as the big companies making their catalog for sale across many different eBook platforms. Take for example Erotica, since “50 Shades of Grey: erotica is big business a whole industry has built up to supply this in demand content and its writers are making a small killing just supplying the market.

An example of a smaller company doing just this is Yellow Silk Dreams, run by writer Jacqueline George. Not only are they distributing there catalog of publications to all the major players in the eBook market place they are also looking for authors to join their growing business. Is This your big opportunity?

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So if you are an aspiring writer here is an opportunity to get your work published with a company with a growing reputation for delivering quality eBooks. Just drop an email to the webmaster sorry mistress… Sorry mistress! at Yellow Silk Dreams.

Happy Publishing

P.s. Its good to share!

Illustrated Books For Kindle Using Comic Life 3

May 17, 2014 By Robert Corrigan Leave a Comment

Illustrated books are really big on Kindle, they range from full blown graphics novels such as Watchmen.

Featuring some seriously talented artists and writers (i.e. not me) to simple illustrated books such as children’s ABC books (i.e. me).

Although these books look amazing when viewed on such devices as the Kindle Fire HD and other similar reading devices they do present quite a different challenge to the author than do ordinary non illustrated books.

MS Word and similar word processing programs where never really intended for producing books with lots of illustrations or with complex layouts. Some alternatives do exist such as Adobe InDesign which is commonly used to layout professional quality magazines.

InDesign is expensive and has a steep learning curve, we may not need all of the functionality of the program rather like using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut and I cannot therefore justify cost of buying it.

So what about a cheap, easy to use alternative that will help you produce first class illustrated books with no fuss even for those of use who can’t draw for toffee.

Enter Comic Life 3!

Comic life is available for Windows 7 & 8, OS X and IOS, it costs only $30 but you can try if free for 30 days. Comic life is easy to learn, has lots of pre built templates, panel layouts and output options producing quality comics OR illustrated books.

On Thursday I published my first fully illustrated book for the Kindle Fire HD using Comic life. Here are some example pages from the book. The finished project was exported as a set of .jpg files and imported into Kindle Comic Creator to compile the file for uploading to Kindle. All the images I used were public domain (see What’s Your image like 2). Total production cost of the book $0.

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I used my new iMac to produce the book but a PC or iPad works just as well. Comic life is true alternative to high end costly illustration programs at a fraction of the price. As you can see I even did the cover in Comic Life 3, that’s saved a Fiverr!

Want to know more? I am shooting a series of videos showing exactly how I did this, look out for it.

Rob

p.s. It’s good to share!

Review Of The Year 2015 & Plans For 2016

Sometimes you just get a major shock, much like the one that I got when I started to write this blog post. You see the last time I posted on it was 8 months ago!

I knew it had been a while but it really did come as a big shock.,,

The great thing about my move is that I have considerably more space and for the first time in 15 years a dedicated office. I am refitting the new place gradually and the office is very nearly done.

During 2015, I also have completed 4 products, including the long winded Kindle product, The ePublishing Roadmap. This was launched at the end of September and went on to gross over $6,000 during the five day launch.

It was also awarded the prestigious product of the day by JV Zoo and even beat the Rich Jerk!

I have also completely revamped, my flagship eBay product Plugin Auction Profits, this is scheduled for re-launch during April of 12016. More details closer to the time.

Also complete is a product in a software niche which I hope to launch in Feb/March, but before that at the end of Jan I am launching a product with my good friend Steve King concerning eBay. Did I tell you I am big into eBay?

No clues!!! Oh ok then, take a look at the graphic. This is an amazing little niche on eBay and just so simple to do it defies description.

I am also working on a few other products with Steve for release in the coming months.

So a busy year ahead on all fronts.

May I take this opportunity to wish all peace and prosperity in the coming year.

How To Become An Author

It used to be so hard to become a published author, write the book, send it to a lot of different publishers wait for the rejections to come in and repeat the process for as long as it takes to get fed up.

Amazon has levelled the playing field for small publishers (that’s you and me) by allowing anyone to publish on Kindle and Create Space without it costing a penny. That removes all the barriers to self publishing that has stopped so many people from succeeding.

The traditional route of approaching publishers suffering rejection often for years on end is over. This has allowed some people to make their entire income publishing on Kindle. Read about the very rich Indie Writer.

But however you cut it Amazon is only about 50% of the whole eBook market as there are considerable sales made on iTunes, Google Play, Kobo, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble as well as on smaller eBook sites.

So if you are an aspiring writer here is an opportunity to get your work published with a company with a growing reputation for delivering quality eBooks. Just drop an email to the webmaster sorry mistress… Sorry mistress! at Yellow Silk Dreams.

P.s. Its good to share!

Illustrated Books For Kindle Using Comic Life 3

Illustrated books are really big on Kindle, they range from full blown graphics novels such as Watchmen.

Featuring some seriously talented artists and writers (i.e. not me) to simple illustrated books such as children’s ABC books (i.e. me).

Although these books look amazing when viewed on such devices as the Kindle Fire HD and other similar reading devices they do present quite a different challenge to the author than do ordinary non illustrated books.

MS Word and similar word processing programs where never really intended for producing books with lots of illustrations or with complex layouts. Some alternatives do exist such as Adobe InDesign which is commonly used to layout professional quality magazines.

InDesign is expensive and has a steep learning curve, we may not need all of the functionality of the program rather like using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut and I cannot therefore justify cost of buying it.

So what about a cheap, easy to use alternative that will help you produce first class illustrated books with no fuss even for those of use who can’t draw for toffee.

Enter Comic Life 3!

Comic life is available for Windows 7 & 8, OS X and IOS, it costs only $30 but you can try if free for 30 days. Comic life is easy to learn, has lots of pre built templates, panel layouts and output options producing quality comics OR illustrated books.

Amazon US Amazon UK

I used my new iMac to produce the book but a PC or iPad works just as well. Comic life is true alternative to high end costly illustration programs at a fraction of the price. As you can see I even did the cover in Comic Life 3, that’s saved a Fiverr!

Want to know more? I am shooting a series of videos showing exactly how I did this, look out for it.

Rob

p.s. It’s good to share!

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Sometimes you just get a major shock, much like the one that I got when I started to write this blog post. You see the last time I posted on it was 8 months ago!

I knew it had been a while but it really did come as a big shock.,,

The great thing about my move is that I have considerably more space and for the first time in 15 years a dedicated office. I am refitting the new place gradually and the office is very nearly done.

During 2015, I also have completed 4 products, including the long winded Kindle product, The ePublishing Roadmap. This was launched at the end of September and went on to gross over $6,000 during the five day launch.

It was also awarded the prestigious product of the day by JV Zoo and even beat the Rich Jerk!

I have also completely revamped, my flagship eBay product Plugin Auction Profits, this is scheduled for re-launch during April of 12016. More details closer to the time.

Also complete is a product in a software niche which I hope to launch in Feb/March, but before that at the end of Jan I am launching a product with my good friend Steve King concerning eBay. Did I tell you I am big into eBay?

No clues!!! Oh ok then, take a look at the graphic. This is an amazing little niche on eBay and just so simple to do it defies description.

I am also working on a few other products with Steve for release in the coming months.

So a busy year ahead on all fronts.

May I take this opportunity to wish all peace and prosperity in the coming year.

Please Share

It used to be so hard to become a published author, write the book, send it to a lot of different publishers wait for the rejections to come in and repeat the process for as long as it takes to get fed up.

Amazon has levelled the playing field for small publishers (that’s you and me) by allowing anyone to publish on Kindle and Create Space without it costing a penny. That removes all the barriers to self publishing that has stopped so many people from succeeding.

The traditional route of approaching publishers suffering rejection often for years on end is over. This has allowed some people to make their entire income publishing on Kindle. Read about the very rich Indie Writer.

But however you cut it Amazon is only about 50% of the whole eBook market as there are considerable sales made on iTunes, Google Play, Kobo, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble as well as on smaller eBook sites.

So if you are an aspiring writer here is an opportunity to get your work published with a company with a growing reputation for delivering quality eBooks. Just drop an email to the webmaster sorry mistress… Sorry mistress! at Yellow Silk Dreams.

P.s. Its good to share!

Please Share

Illustrated books are really big on Kindle, they range from full blown graphics novels such as Watchmen.

Featuring some seriously talented artists and writers (i.e. not me) to simple illustrated books such as children’s ABC books (i.e. me).

Although these books look amazing when viewed on such devices as the Kindle Fire HD and other similar reading devices they do present quite a different challenge to the author than do ordinary non illustrated books.

MS Word and similar word processing programs where never really intended for producing books with lots of illustrations or with complex layouts. Some alternatives do exist such as Adobe InDesign which is commonly used to layout professional quality magazines.

InDesign is expensive and has a steep learning curve, we may not need all of the functionality of the program rather like using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut and I cannot therefore justify cost of buying it.

So what about a cheap, easy to use alternative that will help you produce first class illustrated books with no fuss even for those of use who can’t draw for toffee.

Enter Comic Life 3!

Comic life is available for Windows 7 & 8, OS X and IOS, it costs only $30 but you can try if free for 30 days. Comic life is easy to learn, has lots of pre built templates, panel layouts and output options producing quality comics OR illustrated books.

Amazon US Amazon UK

I used my new iMac to produce the book but a PC or iPad works just as well. Comic life is true alternative to high end costly illustration programs at a fraction of the price. As you can see I even did the cover in Comic Life 3, that’s saved a Fiverr!

Want to know more? I am shooting a series of videos showing exactly how I did this, look out for it.

Rob

p.s. It’s good to share!

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