Just the Facts

A categorized index to all Just the Facts posts.

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Amazon

• Adding a video to your Amazon author page
• How to claim a title as your book on Amazon
• Formatting KDP book descriptions using Ablurb
• Create an Amazon Author Page
• Linking your blog to your Amazon author profile
• Setting up International Amazon Author Central pages

Audio books

• Publish and distribute an audio book on Findaway Voices

BookBub

• Claim and configure your BookBub Author Profile – and why you should

BookFunnel

• Basic ebook download setup with BookFunnel

Books2Read

• Create and customize Universal Book Links with Books2Read
• Set up a Books2Read/Draft2Digital author page

BundleRabbit

• Set up your author profile on BundleRabbit
• The differences between bundles and collaborations on BundleRabbit
• Use BundleRabbit’s Ebook Marketplace to find ebooks to bundle

Draft2Digital

• Set up a Draft2Digital author page
• Use Draft2Digital to automatically submit your books to Goodreads

Facebook

• Create a username for your Facebook page
• How – and why – to put author information in your personal Facebook profile
• How to create a custom tab for your Facebook page
• Manage your Instagram account via your Facebook page
• Three easy ways to use Facebook to get mailing list sign ups

Goodreads

• Adding a Goodreads books widget to your author website
• Adding social media buttons to your Goodreads author profile
• Create a custom URL for your Goodreads author profile
• Goodreads author profile basics
• Linking your blog to your Goodreads author profile
• Adding a video to your Goodreads author page

InDesign

• View images in high resolution using InDesign

Instafreebie

• Configure your Instafreebie author profile

Instagram

• Manage your Instagram account via your Facebook page

Mailing lists

• Three easy ways to use Facebook to get mailing list sign ups

Manuscript formatting

• Formatting basics: ellipses

Photoshop

• Add a border to an image in Photoshop
• Bevel and Emboss basics with Photoshop
• Convert an image to black & white using an adjustment in Photoshop
• Flip an image with Photoshop
• Working with grids in Photoshop
• Make a basic gradient layer with Photoshop
• Making a background transparent in Photoshop
• Working with grids in Photoshop

Pinterest

• Embed a Pinterest Board in WordPress
• Pinterest profile basics

Social media management

• Social media management with MavSocial
• Social media management with Hootsuite

Story bundles

• What are story bundles, and why should authors care about them?
• Story bundling for curators: How to choose authors to invite

Vellum

• Create a table of contents for an ebook anthology using volumes in Vellum
• Create a Vellum template for Word

WordPress

• Using Jetpack’s “Related Posts” feature

YASIV

• Using YASIV to understand your market and improve your marketing

YouTube

• Create a YouTube channel and publish a video

Other

• Author website basics
• Jutoh and Word, BFFs!
• The format and placement of copyright information pages
• Title capitalization tools
• Create and customize Universal Book Links with Books2Read
• Watch and/or search for U.S. trademark registrations