Evernote for Self-Publishing: How to Write Your Book in Evernote from Start to Finish

By Jose John

Do you want to build an exciting self publishing business?
Do you want to publish many books quickly?
Do you want to take control of your writing process?

Meet Evernote - the popular note taking app available on all of your devices, and its brilliant set of features that can power your self publishing business.

This short book on Self Publishing with Evernote shows you:
• Why Evernote is a great tool on which to build your self publishing business
• How to use Evernote for Planning your next book(s)
• How to use Evernote for Writing your book
• How to use Evernote for Marketing your books
• How to use Evernote for Managing one or more book projects
• 10 easy tips to get started with Evernote for self publishing

Specifically, you will learn:
• Why Scrivener is great for authors, but Evernote is better for self publishers
• How to efficiently conduct your research using Evernote's powerful wiki-feature
• How to collaborate with anyone on just a part, or all your book
• How to harness reminders and checklists in Evernote to keep your book projects on schedule
• How you can confidently save everything to Evernote but still keep it organized!
• How to quickly create a PDF draft at any point from your book written in Evernote
• How to use Evernote's unique features on iOS and Android to quickly evaluate several book ideas and review drafts
• How to export your work to Microsoft Word or Apple Pages to finish up for publication to common ebook formats
• How to run Google Keyword Planner tool on your Evernote drafts to discover SEO-friendly keywords

Get This Book NOW, and Transform Your Publishing Business with Evernote!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jose John
• Release date: Aug 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310342608

Jose John

Developer of Mac OS X apps, and author of several books.

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

Why Evernote is a great tool to power your Self Publishing business

Challenges in your self publishing business

To succeed in the self publishing business requires you to master a range of tasks: gauge what your readers want, create good content, collaborate with others for specialized inputs, market your books and gather feedback, and continuously build your portfolio of books. These activities are usually managed in a disjoint manner, relying on a range of software tools, email clients, web apps, and often results in an mess of files and folders on disk. This is not a fluid way to work.

Publishing is a complex business, and in an ideal world, we would have robust tools for the following activities:

Evaluate new book ideas: capture book ideas, assess market potential, creatively develop each idea

Write books: use your favorite workflow style whether it be to outline first, or a flexible add-structure-as-you-go approach

Market books: track promotion and advertising strategies, collect reviews & feedback, SEO for your books

Manage your book projects: schedule your work, prioritize projects, ensure steady progress, manage writing & editing tasks 

Build a knowledge base: technical requirements of book stores, writing and marketing advice, templates & tools, workflow refinements

Typically, self publishers choose the best tool for each activity, and find a way to make it all work.

How Evernote’s strengths can solve your key challenges

Self publishers are also authors, and know that writing books is the most critical activity of all the activities above. As a result, they first pick the best writing tool that suits their style, and figure out the rest of the toolkit as necessary. Unfortunately, writing tools such as Microsoft Word or Scrivener are not