Still on writing: Let your book research ideas remain at that level and it should only act as a guide to you. Hence, never copy and paste any part of it into your book project.

As an independent author, using Facebook book groups to promote your published books by posting their links in them is very effective in generating sales.

Important Book Writing Tips and Guides with respect to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing:

http://ebookstrati..com/2017/08/book-writing-tips-and-guides.html?m=1

Writing a great book is the most important book marketing strategy!

Making the transition to a full-time writer does not happen overnight, it takes time, consistency and hard work!

So, don't be in a rush to quit your full-time work for writing but make writing and publishing a side gig until it can pay the bills and more. You can then quit your work to focus on writing.

One of the best success strategies of independent authors is "writing to market" that is writing in a genre or subgenre that is currently selling very well and not just writing what you love to write about. To find out these genre, study Amazon "best seller" lists and see if you Chun out some good books in those niches.

To avoid the experience of having your KDP Publishing account being terminated by Amazon, one thing you must not do is accessing or operating more than one KDP Publishing account using one Computer or PC.

Writers finds inspiration in different ways. So,
what inspired the concept behind your latest book?

Two strategies that have greatly enhanced my indie publishing career and increased my earnings are as follows:

1. Writing and publishing more books.
2. Increasing the rate I promote my published books through social media.

As simple as these strategies may appeared to be, they are very effective.

As long as you are good at writing and you have manuscripts of books already typeset and edited, you can prepare and publish them as eBooks and distribute through worldwide digital book distributors and make some money.

As a Nigerian writer/author who wants to publish books through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, you must write books that appeals to global audience and not local or Nigerian audience! This is because the target markets out there on Amazon are predominantly the Americans, Europeans, and Asians.

Also, it is advisable to use a pen name as the author name instead of using your official name. The said pen name should be western in nature but abstract that is hardly any trace of any existing bearer e.g Midjet Astronij.

An online presence offers another way to keep in touch with your readers. So, you need to creatively use social media to market your digitally published books.