![]() Normally, when self-publishing, I do everything for the book and am in total control. If you want an Ingram Spark hardcover, would it be a case laminate, dust jacket, or jacketed case laminate? Your publishing venue (Ingram Spark, KDP, both… if Ingram Spark, please also send the ISBN)Ħ.5. Short author bio and picture (this is optional, and please make sure any picture you send for the back cover has a resolution of 300dpi or higher)Ħ. Back cover text (the book description usually works for this)ĥ. Exact page count of your fully finished formatted manuscript (to determine spine width)Ĥ. They asked me to send all the parts for the cover in one email and here’s what they required:ģ. After reading and studying many marketing books, I decided this time I would pay to have the cover done, and that’s been the hold-up. See how my current book has gone! My new book, Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better? has been hanging on the edge of being published for several weeks. I also enjoy this part because it lets me express myself creatively in how the book’s interior looks. In self-publishing A Time to Grow Up: A Daughter’s Grief Memoir, I paid someone to do the cover, but I suggested the total layout and added to it.Īlso, I do the interior layout with Vellum, a Mac program that creates the print version and four e-book formats. Because of my computer skills, I love laying out the cover, and I have done four of my six books. Next, I have always hired a professional editor because I know it’s impossible for me to distance myself enough from my work and not make mistakes. Hopefully, it will go smoothly! You never know! Moving parts!!ĭid you know all the moving parts of publishing a book? If so, what was your experience?Īs a self-publishing author, I usually do most of the tasks to publish a book. So that ended the saga! I uploaded the new version of the e-book on Wednesday afternoon and it was ready for purchase shortly!įinally, I’m waiting for the final cover of the print copy with the description, my picture and brief biography and the ISBN number. So, I researched Christmas names: Joseph, Nicholas, Rudolph, etc. He came up with a great idea: use a Christmas name. Lin came upstairs to my computer, and I told him what I was doing. I researched safe names to use for men characters in a book and came up with Alex. On Wednesday morning, I knew I had to change my first husband’s name. Good thing I brought it up to my book coach. So somehow, while I was resizing the pictures, I forgot about changing his name in the revisions Tuesday night. My husband, Lin, had offered the same advice while we discussed this in the hot tub on Monday night. I haven’t talked to him in over forty years, so calling was out of the question. The solutions they offered: change his name or call him and ask permission. None of what I wrote about him was derogatory, but I have become super cautious about using people’s names. ![]() On Tuesday morning, I asked my book coach and group about using my ex-husband’s name in my book. So, I resized and resized and resized, going back and forth several times between KDP and Vellum. Then, I have several pictures in the book and the placement in Vellum wasn’t true to size. So, in Vellum, the program I use to create my books, I moved it forward one page, but then had to upload the document again. ![]() KDP has an online previewer, thank God! First, I realized I had the Copyright page in the wrong place-after the Table of Contents, not before it. Anticipation about this day had hovered over me for weeks. Then I uploaded the manuscript to KDP, excited I was finally there. When a customer searches on Amazon, their search engines use keywords and book categories to find the book-super important for the sales of a book! Lots of research goes into launching a new book for keywords and categories. I filled in all the required information, which I prepared for a couple of days ahead of time. Let me share it with you!Įagerly on Monday, first, I created the new e-book space on KDP, an affiliate of Amazon. Moving parts of publishing an e-book-so many for sure! My new e-book, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir, has made it through the ringer, available now! This week I struggled with the process and succeeded.
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