Self Publishing

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SELF PUBLISHING Amazon Createspace, Kindle, Smashwords

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SELF PUBLISHING

Amazon Createspace, Kindle, Smashwords

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STEP ONE

Write an entire book.

Edit, revise, etc.

Decide it’s ready to publish.

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UPLOAD INTERIOR

Blank page, half title page, other books by the author, title page, copyright, dedication, acknowledgements, table of contents, table of figures, preface

Word makes a great automatic table of contents.

Also a great index if this is nonfiction.

Afterward, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, About the Author

Black and white pictures are fine – must be 300 dpi high quality.

Consider a little icon at chapter starts or scene separations.

PDFs are more stable than Word.

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COVER

Use Amazon’s templates

OR

Get a decent graphics program and a high quality background you like. One or two pieces of high quality royalty free clipart and some text and you’re done.

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COVER CHECK

https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/Artwork.do has a template for your book size and number of pages.

Make this semi-transparent and paste it over your book cover to make sure you’re in the lines.

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FINISHING UP

Amazon reviews it for errors.

Amazon asks which sales channels you want (probably all of them)

And what price you’d like (they set a minimum)

Cover finish

Back cover summary, category, and keywords

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EBOOKSNow that Amazon has all your book details, they’ll adapt it into a Kindle ebook and sell that too.

ACX.com will walk you through auditioning actors for your audiobook.

Now that your book is done, why not distribute the ebook to iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Scribd and everywhere else? Go to Smashwords.com, give them your manuscript (as a Word doc) and front cover and set your price. They convert it into EVERY ebook format and send it out EVERYWHERE…except Amazon.

They prefer a copyright page where you say “Smashwords Edition,” and no giant fonts or piles of line breaks in a row. It’s an ebook, after all. Charts are messy. Pictures jump around but still work.

These will all provide a free ISBN.