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Free Christian Book Publishing and Marketing

You can Publish for Free
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I love to make Good News available as widely and as freely as possible.  This Blog gives you some suggestions.  It’s neither the first nor the last word on free Christian publishing.  But I hope it helps you.

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You can publish and market your books for free with Amazon/Kindle.  My book tells you how.  Amazon makes its money by advertising and selling your book for you.  You can buy your book at the author’s discount.  My book gives you the basic details, updated to the current Kindle Direct Publishing information.

A huge advantage of Kindle Direct Publishing is that you can upload new editions, or corrections, also for free.

Digital eBooks are easiest to do now and are read more than printed books because they are cheap and delivered immediately to computers, tablets and smartphones.  Just upload your Word file to Kindle!  Add a free cover you create with Cover Creator.

Go to Kindle Direct Publishing (an Amazon company) and follow the links.
What you publish there goes on Amazon and Kindle for free. 
Expanded distribution adds your book(s) to The Book Depository with free airmail worldwide, and your books are listed on other distributors, some of which get listed on Amazon as well.

PDF Books

You can add your books as a PDF book to your social media outlets and on WordPress, as I have done here with this one.

Upload your PDF version on your WordPress page to Add/Media  – preferably with hyperlinks for readers to use, eg chapter headings.  Make a WordPress page for every book, as I have done with the Renewal Journal books.  

Free Marketing

Amazon markets your book automatically.  Add Amazon links wherever you can – to your WordPress page, and on your social media.

You can also promote your books on many sites as noted below.  I find promoting free eBooks (with Kindle Select) or free PDF books the best.  The free PDF books get the most response!

Here is a list of useful Facebook Christian book lovers’ links you may like to follow, with approximate numbers of members shown for each one, as at December 2018. The pages with huge numbers of followers give only temporary exposure to your book because they get huge numbers of posts added!

Christian Books, Poems and Art  70,000 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/208007959309272/

Christian Authors & Writers  18,000 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/27974652447

Christian Authors USA  15,000 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/134165873392010

Free Christian Books  14,000 – https://www.facebook.com/ChristianBooksforFree/

Free & Low Cost Christian Books  3,000 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/freechristianbooks/

Christian Review of Books  2,700 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/121238177904758

Christian Books & Authors  2,400 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/717625294960109/

Christian Indie Books  2,000  – https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianindiebooks/

Christian Books  2,000  – https://www.facebook.com/groups/339024906133837

Christian Writers Support Group  1,600 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/138690059672369/

Christian Indie Authors Portal  1000 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/JoinChristianindieauthors/

Christian Book Reviewers  1000 –  https://www.facebook.com/groups/726701437359354/

Christian Bloggers, Authors and Writers  1000 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/728507230594523/

Christian Book Authors  700 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/102731759815256

Christian Indie Authors  650  – https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianindieauthors/

Christian Authors Publishing Network  600 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/103633116396576/

Free & Cheap Christian theology/Apologetics & Christian Living Books  600 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeCheapChristianBooks/

Christian Non-fiction Writers, Bloggers &authors  580 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/188061684696756/

Christian Book Discussion, Readers, Reviewers, Writers,and Bloggers  560 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1575598479354118/

Christian Authors Network  450 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianauthorsnetwork/

Christian Groups Promo Group  450 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChristianBooksPromo

Christian Authors Worldwide  400 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/165988006931339/

Christian books and non-fiction books suitable for Christians  380 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/415010681957540

Non-fiction Christian Authors & Readers  380 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/425017387683604/

Christian Authors & Writers Academy  340 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/chawa1/

Christian e-book lovers, free and sales  340 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/428845920591275

Christian Writers and Readers  300 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/271262013072469C

Christian Fiction and NonFiction Readers  280 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFNFR/

Deals on Christian Books, eBooks, and Music  260 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/EncouragingChristianResources/

Kindle Christian Books – Review & Promote Books  220 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/504304299710750/

Christian Nonfiction/Fiction Books  100 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/855248991336780/

Other National Groups:

Christian Authors UK  460 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/308868802566614

Christian Authors Canada  390 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/255715994559389

Christian Authors Germany  330 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/276647192461809

Christian Authors Australia  320 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/753176531364119/

Christian Authors Italy  320 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/395541553869541

Christian Authors Japan  200 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/194814200665007/

Christian Authors France  190 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/405572549529792

Christian Authors Mexico  170 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/195293983976795

Christian Authors Spain  160 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/549824205036191

Christian Authors Brazil  160 – https://www.facebook.com/groups/399005553524757

See also general marketing Blogs:

10 Top Book Marketing Articles from BookBub in 2018

I’m happy to edit and add any good Christian sites you recommend for book marketing.

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BLOGS INDEX 4: DEVOTIONAL (INCLUDING TESTIMONIES)

BLOGS INDEX 5: CHURCH (CHRISTIANITY IN ACTION)

BLOGS INDEX 6: CHAPTERS (BLOGS FROM BOOKS)

BLOGS INDEX 7: IMAGES (PHOTOS AND ALBUMS)

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* This book is a brief introduction to publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing (formerly Createspace). People who are thinking about self-publishing for the first time will find it helpful. It gives easy to understand, step-by-step instructions and tips.

* Thanks, Geoff! This has (literally) changed our life, because it has opened up new avenues of sharing the gospel and the Word. Blessings!
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You Can Publish for Free is a small book that you can use or pass on to others, showing you how you can publish for free and share your good news.
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Contents
1. Create
2. Upload
3. Distribute

Here is part of Chapter 1: Create

This morning I had an idea: Why not make a book explaining how to make a book for free?

So here it is.

I’ve been publishing books for a while. It used to cost me a lot, but now I do it for free. So can you.

All the guidebooks and articles that I found seemed hard to understand, so I thought: Why not make a simple guidebook that anyone can use? Here it is. This book is available to order in print or immediately available on Kindle and here as a PDF. I uploaded it to Kindle Direct Publishers (KDP) for free.

All you need is a computer (or laptop, or tablet, or even a smartphone) linked to the internet. The Kindle and PDF versions are handy because they have direct links to web pages.

I chose to print this book in ‘color’. That costs a bit more but for small books of 24-40 pages or so, copies are not expensive. If you use images or photographs they look better in ‘color’.

So if you would like to publish a book like this simple one for free, go ahead. It’s easy to do. You can upload it today for free and order copies tomorrow! You just pay for the copies you order, from one to any number you want. And authors/publishers get their copies cheaper than anyone else!

What book?

The possibilities are endless!

An easy way to start would be by using your family or holiday photos. Many people have albums on web pages such as on Facebook but books are still popular and welcome, especially as gifts.

You may like to use images as I have done in my Appendix.

Perhaps you could consider fiction or non-fiction. Most of my books are non-fiction, but I have included fiction stories that a pre-school grandson told me when he was 3 and 4. Uploading many edited copies to the publisher costs nothing as I gradually improved the layout of the book. There’s a holiday idea for you with your children or grandchildren

An older grandson wrote a biography for a primary school assignment so I published that and it became a welcome and popular gift. He did the layout himself. You could help your children or grandchildren make a small book of around 24 pages.

Your children or grandchildren may appreciate your autobiography or part of your life story. The world has changed so much since the twentieth century that your story could be really interesting especially if you illustrate it with some photos. You could start with some small books and then combine them into one larger volume later.

I have published various essays written by my students and made them available in a book. If you do that you become the editor of that book. Students often gave their work to me with better formatting than I can do myself. I have encouraged students to publish their work, for free.

Maybe you lead or speak in a study group and could gather your material into a small resource book. You can have that published and in your hands within a month, or have it available on Kindle tomorrow! I often use my books as resources for my speaking or teaching.

Why not try something to begin? You may find yourself enjoying this hobby and helping or blessing others in the process.

Comments from my BlogYou can publish for free:

A huge advantage of Kindle Direct Publishing is that you can upload new editions, or corrections, also for free.

Digital eBooks are easiest to do now.  Just upload your Word file to Kindle!  Add a free cover you create with Cover Creator.

Just go to Kindle Direct Publishing (an Amazon company) and follow the links.
What you publish there goes on Amazon and Kindle for free.

Expanded distribution adds your book(s) to The Book Depository with free airmail worldwide, and your books are listed on other distributors, some of which get listed on Amazon as well.

You can start small.  For example, King of the Granny Flat (a biography – Look inside) was a Grade 7, primary school assignment done by my grandson, Dante Waugh, including the layout and photo selections.  So Grandpa just published it – for free.  There’s an idea for parents and grandparents!

The main disadvantage is that all your errors get published (in print or digitally) just as you upload them!  But it’s easy to then upload a corrected version for free.  If you have a spouse or friend good at editing, you’re home and hosed.  Kindle Direct Publishing now provides a brilliant digital proof of your book that you can examine before publishing.

You can pay for services, such as covers, layout, editing, marketing.  But these are optional extras.  At first, I used their services for layout and covers.  This first line of images here gives examples of cover designs I paid for:

A Pacific1Light on the MountainsA Looking to Jesus 1Discovering Aslan

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Here are examples of cover designs done by others that we reproduced:

Flashpoints of RevivalLivingin the SpiritChurch on FireFruit & Gifts of the Spirit

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I did most of my other books with the cover creator for free.  For example, the 20 issues of the Renewal Journal have the same cover design and fonts, but different colours and photos – See Renewal Journals page:

Renewal Journal 1: RevivalRenewal Journal: 2 Church GrowthRenewal Journal 3: CommunityRenewal Journal: 4 Healing

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You will see many books with the same cover design but different colours, fonts and photos on the Books and Welcome page here, all done for free, such as these in the Lion of Judah series:

A 1 TitlesA 2 Reign of JesusA 6 Spirit of JesusA 7 Lion*

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Other books, including the digital versions, have a range of free cover designs such as this design:

A Annual Journal & Planner2   A Your Spiritual Gifts2   A A Preface to The Acts   A You can Publish for Free  *

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GENERAL BLOGS INDEX 

BLOGS INDEX 1: REVIVALS (BRIEFER THAN REVIVALS INDEX)

BLOGS INDEX 2: MISSION (INTERNATIONAL STORIES)

BLOGS INDEX 3: MIRACLES (SUPERNATURAL EVENTS)

BLOGS INDEX 4: DEVOTIONAL (INCLUDING TESTIMONIES)

BLOGS INDEX 5: CHURCH (CHRISTIANITY IN ACTION)

BLOGS INDEX 6: CHAPTERS (BLOGS FROM BOOKS)

BLOGS INDEX 7: IMAGES (PHOTOS AND ALBUMS)

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