Last year, someone recommended that Sheila create a template file that could be used for subsequent anthologies, so she did. It’s a Word Doc rather than a template, and she included (chapters of) instructions on how to use it, in hopes that perhaps someone will take over from her and “use” it next year! The template should also be helpful for anyone who hopes to self-publish their work in a 6×9 inch book.
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How to Release a Book on Amazon, presentation by Sheila Deeth, Nov 15th 2020
How to Release a Book on Amazon
There’s a certain amount of preparation required, so bear with us while we go through some of it.
Continue reading How to Release a Book on Amazon, presentation by Sheila Deeth, Nov 15th 2020We made a book, and you can too!
Our “Let’s make another book” presentation covered and/or touched the following book-creation topics, with notes and additional information below:
- How to Title your book
- How to Format your book
- How to Edit your book
- How to Prepare your book for Printing
- How to Prepare your book for Kindle
- How to Upload your ebook
- How to use Amazon’s Cover Creator
- How to Upload your print book (and use Cover Creator again!)
- How to get your book onto your Author Page (yes, I know, I didn’t have time to cover this, but some of you asked…)
Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117
November’s meeting brought 13 of us to watch and assist in the uploading of The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 7 to Amazon. Those of you who missed it missed some fantastic healthy snacks from Ria and an ongoing scene of great stress, excitement and triumph. The minutes below are LONG because I’ve tried to cover everything we did and all the questions I was asked about what we might not have done. So here goes… Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117
How to make an anthology – notes from Sheila’s powerpoint presentation, November 2018
Let’s Make An Anthology!
Or a novel, memoir, poetry book…
What happens when you try to tell that story, with Zita Podany
What Happens when you have a Story to Tell, with Zita Podany
First step:
Zita had a story to tell. But life, as it does, kept getting in the way. Then she read the back of an Arcadia book where it said “Write for Arcadia.” She looked on the website and decided to contact them with her ideas.
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Self-pub, e-pub and more
Looking for a publisher?
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2015/06/what-i-learned-about-writing-from.html
Need more writing groups?
http://www.meetup.com/Hillsboro-Creative-Writing-Center-Meetup/
What about the cover, the title, the design?
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/04/how-to-choose-the-perfect-book-title/
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/02/judging-book-cover-book-publicists-media-want-see-outside-book/
http://www.bookbaby.com/free-guide/amazon-keywords
http://indigoediting.com/August2015
ISBN information
https://www.createspace.com/Services/LCCNAssignment.jsp
http://booklife.com/publish/print/07/16/2014/the-indie-authors-guide-to-isbns.html
Self-Publishing & e-Publishing
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/00/00/71/54/24/89/7154248950.pdf
http://www.bookbaby.com/free-guide/self-publishing-boot-camp
http://www.bookbaby.com/free-guide/how-to-publish-ebook
http://bookarma.net/blog/manuscripts-ebooks-formatting-tips/
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2014/11/leaving-bookbaby-was-the-best-decision-she-could-ever-make/
https://www.createspace.com/pub/l/services_pubessentials.do?rewrite=true
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2015/03/traditional-or-self-publishing/
Translation?
Journal News 2015 – Step 14 – Publish on Kindle
At the end of the Createspace process, we’re offered the chance to publish our book to kindle. Createspace sends the cover file, suitably formatted, but recommends we use a doc file rather than our nice pdf. This makes sense. pdf files are formatted. Ebooks aren’t. Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 14 – Publish on Kindle
Journal News 2015 – Step 11 – fixing the print file
Fine-tuning that print file takes forever, but the aim is to produce something that looks professional, rather than something we simply rushed into print. So here goes:
Page numbers: Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 11 – fixing the print file
Journal News 2015 – Step 10 – format for print
We’re lucky. We’ve already created two journals on Createspace. Our intent is to make this next one match and improve on the last – learning from our mistakes. Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 10 – format for print