The journey into self publishing my out of print backlist has been interesting, to say the least. I expected more time to tweak, check how it looked, but things went very fast. Too fast. I found out after finally reviewing the ebook. Here is my shameful secret: I can’t proofread worth squat. I used to [...]
My newly re-released out of print book The Fairy Tale Bride went live so quickly, I hadn’t quite worked out all the non-book kinks. My bio is lame. My description is lacking. My cover is great (more on that process in the next post), but I hadn’t given them any thought — I just entered [...]
Follow the Smashwords Style Guide. Note: FREE To the letter. Upload to Smashwords. Then save as a Word .htm file and upload to Kindle. OPTIONAL: Obsessively check to see when it goes live. Read it through again. Correct if needed. Pat yourself on the back. Seriously, I had heard such horror stories that I delayed [...]
To continue with the scanning saga… After I had the proof pages scanned in and properly formatted for Kindle, I had to tackle the much harder problem — filling in the missing pages. Simple enough, I thought. I had one copy of my book left, I could just type in the missing pages. Unfortunately, I [...]
TRUE: Timing is everything. EVEN TRUER: My timing is lousy. I should have known. When I try to put a nice holiday dinner on the table, I can chop and stir and bake all day, but once everyone is at the table something (sweet potatoes, rolls, cranberry sauce, vegetables…but never the turkey) is not ready. [...]
I remember, when I was in my teens or early twenties, going with my mother to her secretarial office to help her scan some documents. The scanner was the size of a small car. But it could do two-sided OCR scans. It even had a screen, and when it hit a word that didn’t scan [...]
So, it was clear that the pages of the books, traces of glue lingering, would not feed through. I briefly considered photocopying each page and then scanning it in, but the waste of paper, and the duplication of effort dissuaded me from that lunacy pretty quickly. However… I had found the page proofs of my [...]
So, I’m behind, as usual. I’ve been slowly scanning and editing my five out of print books (otherwise known as the OOPs). The first one, The Fairy Tale Bride, is almost ready for me to upload to Smashwords and Amazon. I envisioned this process being much smoother. On the other hand, I’ve learned a lot [...]
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