To the Bookshelves
This is the final stop on our story’s journey.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip and learned some things.
Published!
Once I made those final corrections from the proof copy, I created my kindle book for Jim Wood. I don’t like creating the kindle book before I’ve made the final corrections or I have to do them twice.
The kindle book is almost the same as the paperback. So once I had the paperback formatted for Jim Wood, I simply saved a copy as the kindle version and added some page breaks so there are breaks in the kindle version like there are supposed to be. I also made the table of contents link to the chapters. (I know it seems to becoming a fad to NOT have a table of contents especially in kindle books, but that really bugs me, so my books have them.)
With the kindle book done, I uploaded the corrected paperback, then the kindle book to KDP. After a quick check to make sure the kindle version looked right, I pushed that “publish” button and smiled. Once again I’d taken a journey from an idea to a published book.
All that’s left is letting my readers know there’s a new book for sale. And trying to encourage them to purchase their own copy. 🙂
This brings our book to a bookshelf. Hopefully yours.
Did you enjoy this journey of a book? If you are an author, how similar is your book’s journey? What things do you do differently? Have you read Jim Wood yet?
Not having a tables of contents or sticking it at the back of the book drives me crazy! I hate having to page through a book to find out how many chapters it has!!!
Me too! I make sure I have a table of contents even if I just have 4 chapters. 😉
The no table of contents thing is awful! I don’t get it!! Thanks for always having one!!
Couldn’t agree more. 🙂 I want to know how many chapters a book has.
You’re welcome!
I really appreciated this series! Thank you for sharing the journey with us.
My pleasure. I’m glad you could come along for the ride.