Indie Web Resources

This is by no means a comprehensive list of web resources, but this should give most people a good idea of where to start. I hope to keep adding to these resources as I find more valuable sites and books online, so check back often for more updates. A special thanks to my fellow Indie author Lisa Nowak for her help in compiling this list.

WHERE TO PUBLISH:

• Kindle Direct Publishing (Amazon)
• Nook Press (Barnes & Noble)
• Smashwords
• Google Books Partner Program
• Apple

BOOKS:

• Smashwords Style Guide by Mark Coker
• Smart Self-Publishing: Becoming an Indie Author by Zoe Winters
• A Simple, Cheap, Illustrated Guide to Converting a Word Doc to Kindle and Nook by Lisa Nowak

*Here, I have given the links to buy at Smashwords. Most of these books are also available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, so if you’d prefer to buy from there, simply search for the author or title on those sites.

BLOGS:

• Edward W. Robertson’s Failure Ahoy
• JA Konrath’s A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing
• Bob Mayer’s Write it Forward
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Dean Wesley Smith
• Robin Sullivan’s Write To Publish
• The Passive Voice

FORUMS:

• Kindle Boards

COVER DESIGNERS:

• 99 Designs
• Covers By Lily (Lily Smith)
• Damonza
• Ebook Indie Covers
• Go On Write
• Humble Nations
• Mae I Design
• Novak Illustration
• Okay Creations (Sarah Hansen)
• Ravven
• Renu Sharma (The Dark Rayne)
• Robin Ludwig Design
• Scarlett Rugers
• Streetlight Graphics

EDITORS:

• The Atwater Group
• Dragonfly Editing
• Zoe Dawson
• Victory Editing

OTHER RESOURCES:

• US Copyright Office
• WordTalk
• BookBaby
• MyIdentifiers (Bowker)
• Lightning Source
• CreateSpace
• Firstsiteguide (How to make a website, start a blog, and learn about web hosting)

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND IMAGE CREATION (web-based):

• Picmonkey
• Canva