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🛠 SCRIVENER. The best word processor
WRITE, PUBLISH, for writing a book. There's a learning
COYNE. Worth mentioning 2x! This is
an essential guide for editing your first
curve, but once you've mastered
AND MARKET Scrivener, you'll never write a book in
Word again. (favorite Scrivener
draft, and is applicable whether you're
writing fiction or nonfiction. (b&n)
(amazon)
YOUR BOOK resources)
🛠 GOOGLE SHEETS. Great for outlining
🛠 GOOGLE DOCS. Scrivener is great for
writing, but for working with an editor
your book and organizing elements
By The Write Practice or beta readers, Google Docs, with its
like characters/plots/timelines. Click
"suggestion mode" and live updates,
for a guide. (sheets.google.com)
Over the years, thousands of writers have is the best. (docs.google.com)
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asked what tools and resources we 🛠 GOOGLE SHEETS. See above!
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BIRD BY ANNE LAMMOTT. The
grammarly)
writing process is iterative. Each draft
gets better than the last, but you can't 🛠 EVERNOTE. This is a great place to
finish a book until you write a bad first capture story ideas and research,
draft. (library)(amazon) brainstorm, and think through your
book. My favorite is that it easily syncs
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between your phone and computer so
(especially the section about genre
you can capture ideas or brainstorm CONTINUED ON THE
and the 5 commandments). This book/
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PUBLISHING 📝 "HOW TO WRITE QUERY LETTERS"
🛠 BOOKBABY. If you don't want the DIY
AND "NOVEL SYNOPSES" BY JANE
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BOTH NONFICTION & FICTION FRIEDMAN. If you're publishing a
your manuscript into a published
novel or memoir, you begin by
📝 "HOW TO GET YOUR BOOK book. Great reviews on customer
submitting a query letter and synopsis
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to agents.
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to begin your publishing journey. If you're self-publishing,
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agent, and QueryTracker.com is a free BY JANE FRIEDMAN. As usual, Jane where you'll go to publish your eBook
database of agents that also guides Friedman's thorough and frequently on Amazon and check your sales.
you through the querying and updated guide will give you (kdp.amazon.com)
submission process to those agents. everything you need to know about 💲 DRAFT2DIGITAL. For every other
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(writersmarket.com) eBook that you can publish on
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NONFICTION
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you're publishing a nonfiction book, it (vellum.pub)
starts with a book proposal (and you NEXT PAGE…
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usually submit your proposal BEFORE covers on your own using 1,000s of
you write your first draft, so read this
now).
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ready to create your paperback book, newsletter service. Simple to use but
this is the best resource. Simple and highly advanced. (convertkit.com)
inexpensive, they will also distribute 🛠 SUMO. Install this on your author site
your book on Amazon without you and begin building your email list.
having to store inventory, and they'll (sumo.com)
send you a check for every book
🛠 ZAPIER. Connects all your apps.
you've sold. (createspace.com)
Useful for anything from mail merges
💲 ACX. Like Createspace for to automatically emailing your
audiobooks, ACX will help you find subscribers a free book they asked for.
the people to make your audiobook, Takes some getting used to but life-
and then publish your audiobook on changing once you do. (zapier.com)
Amazon and Audible. (acx.com)

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at one point Tim Grahl had five clients
on the NY Times bestsellers list at the
same time. This is the best and
timeless guide to marketing your
book. (b&n)(amazon)
🛠 WORDPRESS. The best tool you have
to market your book is an email list,
and your website is the best tool to
build your email list. Wordpress is the
website-building tool most authors
use. Click for our guide on how to
build your author website.
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