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e-mail: cynthia@cypresshouse.com
Contact: Cynthia Frank

Build a Better Book Resource List
© Cynthia Frank, 2013
RECOMMENDED READING FOR AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS

Small Time Operator
Bernard Kamaroff, CPA

Whoops! I’m In Business
Richard Stim & Lisa Guerin

How To Get Organized Without Resorting To Arson: A Step-by-Step Guide to Clearing Your Desk Without Panic or the Use of Open Flame
Liz Franklin
EBOOK RESOURCES

Lightning Source
https://www1.lightningsource.com/

CreateSpace
https://www.createspace.com/

Kobo Writing Life
http://www.kobo.com/writinglife

NookPress
https://www.nookpress.com/

ASSOCIATIONS

Independent Book Publishers Association
www.ibpa-online.org

American Booksellers Association
http://www.bookweb.org/
PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION

Shelf Awareness
www.shelf-awareness.com

Help A Reporter
www.helpareporter.com

OTHER RESOURCES

Checking out scams
http://www.snopes.com/
http://pred-ed.com/

Cover feedback
www.ratemybookcover.com
judgeabook.blogspot.com

Financial planning for authors and publishers
www.gropenassoc.com

Legal issues
www.ivanhofmann.com
http://www.calawyersforthearts.org/



Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off
Richard Stim, attorney

Aiming at Amazon
Aaron Shepard



iBooks 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5071#5

How to sell iBooks/iTunes Producer video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOqvOrnk44

Conversion services
www.ebookarchitects.com
http://www.bookprinters.com/
www.360digitalbooks.com



American Society of Indexers
http://www.asindexing.org/

American Library Association
www.ala.org



Redroom
www.redroom.com

Publicity tips
http://publicityhound.com/
http://www.directcontactpr.com/



Literary Agents
http://www.andreabrownlit.com/
http://www.twliterary.com/
http://www.larsenpomada.com/
www.publishersmarketplace.com

INSPIRING AUTHORS
http://www.barryeisler.com/
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/
http://www.kentharrington.com/

SELECTED SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

How many hours per week can I devote to marketing and promoting my book?

What’s my budget? What budget do I have to farm things out?

What am I good at?

What am I rotten at? Where will I procrastinate?

What’s my definition of success for this publishing project?


Honor your strengths; outsource your weaknesses. – Cynthia Frank
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