Hi everyone!
I’ve been putting off formatting my book because I had been going off past experience and found that it was was the worst thing ever. Like, even worse than math homework.
So I was pleasantly surprised to find that Reedsy made it so much fun! There was a bit of a learning curve during which I threw a temper tantrum because I couldn’t drag chapters and parts to the front-end of the book.
Once I got over myself, however, it was entertaining, educational, and it didn’t end with me loathing the entire experience. Nice to know for books coming in the future!
Someone left me alone with Canva
Remember how I told you I had settled on a title, subtitle, and book cover? Well, I was left unsupervised and playing around with Canva and ended up changing a few things!
I’ve left the title and the cover the same, but I’m playing around with a subtitle again. At first I thought I was just torturing myself, but I wasn’t! I’ve been learning about the importance of subtitles in non-fiction writing.
Subtitles should be descriptive of the book’s content. The one I had settled on previously, thanks to all of your lovely feedback, was The Starving Freelancer: How to shift from struggle to success. To me, it’s smooth, easy to remember, and fun.
But it’s not as descriptive as it could be.
Since I have a catchy title, my subtitle needs to step up and really work at conveying a bit more about what’s acutally inside the book. This lines up with the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that I’ll be using for my book description, too. The three choices I’m playing around with right now are:
The Starving Freelancer: A guide to shift from struggle to success
The Starving Freelancer: A freelancer’s guide to shift from struggle to success
The Starving Freelancer: A guide to shift from struggle to success in freelancing
These options have more detail on what the book is (a guide) and who it’s for (freelancers).
Since I had chosen the to include “freelancer” in the title, I figured that was clear enough. I was also going with the understanding to never repeat a keyword from the title in the subtitle. But excessive amounts of Googling has told me otherwise. Here is an example that does just that! So, which one is best? The one that most people find the most compelling. And that’s a job for people that aren’t me. Thus, voting time.
Share your opinion!
Feel like voting again? You can vote for your favourite subtitle or email me directly at kelterssbw@gmail.com.
Next, I’m getting my Amazon Author profile set up and creating a landing page for the book. Exciting stuff!
The Starving Freelancer: A freelancer's guide on how to shift from struggle to success. I'll send you an email explaining my thoughts further.