Nadderwater Rise Ghost needed to be in paperback. Easy as pie, no worries, I’ll just format it as I usually do, slap on the Table of Contents, Copyrite and ISBN pages, create a paperback cover as a pdf and head […]
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KDP, the Galley and Proofing – The Cover
You’ve written your book. Bully for you and kudos, congrats and all of that. No, really, it’s an achievement and you should be chuffed with your efforts but, if you’ve been following the bouncing ball, you’ll suspect that the journey […]
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The Paperback – Amazon’s Options
When it comes to making physical books, I’ve been a fan of Lulu’s printing service for a while. All of Paranormology is on there, along with The Bullet and Atlas, Broken. I like their terms and the Global Distribution options […]
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Do the New Lulu Fu
Self-published means you’re solely responsible for all the stuff that happens. The good stuff, the bad stuff, the mucky, yucky stuff. One of the issues that crops up is the disparity between writing and updating eBooks versus the hardcopy. Electronic […]
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Emotions Running Hot
What a journey! There’s always a sense of sadness when I come to the end of writing a book. That’s not the only emotion, mind you. There’s fear, lots of that. Fear that it isn’t enough. Fear that there are […]
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My US? No thanks.
A quick update on the whole ‘getting things from Amazon US into Australia because I can’t buy my own book to check if it’s actually properly configured’ thing. I don’t remember just how much of the story I’ve gotten through, […]
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Whoopsy – I totally missed it.
Checklists are awesome. Whenever I’m working on a project, I make a checklist. I take the time to fill it out, put down all the things to do. Bigger tasks get broken into smaller tasks, with their own box of […]
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Portsmouth Avenue up on Pre-release
Head-down-bum-up. That’s the story of the past year, and, for the past month, it has been head-downer-bum-even-more-upper. The pace only gets faster the closer one gets to finishing. To tell you the truth, I’m knackered. I’m stoked to see it […]
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KDP – The End Result
After doing all the setup and tweaking and uploading and tweaking again, I got to the point where I could actually submit the book for publishing. As I’ve already explained, while CreateSpace does allow Author copies, Amazon does not. No […]
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KDP – The Cover Pt II
Last post I uploaded the front cover to the KDP creator. I had blundered in that the DPI or dots per inch setting was at a default of 72, rather than the required 300. Changing the DPI to 300, re-exporting […]
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