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    A Reassuring Guide to Self Publishing
    A Reassuring Guide to Self Publishing
    A Reassuring Guide to Self Publishing
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    A Reassuring Guide to Self Publishing

    By Bev

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    Written by an experienced indie publisher, this is a basic, friendly guide for PC users working with Word that tells you how to self publish in the simplest, cheapest way possible. It’s for people who sometimes struggle with their computer, and don’t have a limitless budget to spend on professional services to get their book published. The self-publishing process isn’t hard but it can be intimidating the first time, so this guide holds your hand right through every step explaining what to do.
    It doesn’t assume you’re an expert so it covers the basics, keeping things as straightforward as possible. It doesn’t teach you how to write, just to publish. If you’ve got a finished book manuscript but don’t know what to do next, the answers are here. Once you have a polished, edited and proof read book file, going through the steps in this guide can put a print copy of your book in your hands in a couple of weeks and make it available worldwide in any format – hard copy or ebook.
    It covers things you didn’t know you didn’t know, like the legal requirements of mandatory deposit in the country where you live whether it’s the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand or Canada. There are tips on pricing and promotion, bar codes and taxation, ISBNs, and all those behind-the-scenes elements that go into publishing a book.
    No wild promises of riches, just an easy-to-follow guide to get you started.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBev
    Release dateNov 14, 2014
    ISBN9781311917652
    A Reassuring Guide to Self Publishing
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    Bev

    Bev Robitai currently works as a writer, book coach, and freelance photographer while travelling in New Zealand and Ontario in Canada. It's an itinerant lifestyle of year-round summer involving boats and motorhomes and a ski chalet. She writes mostly light crime fiction, sometimes based in the theatre and sometimes straying into post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Her novel Murder in the Second Row was launched in June 2010 in a historic theatre that was also used as the setting for Body on the Stage. A decade of backstage experience gave her the raw material for both books. A stand-alone novel Eye for an Eye is the tale of a quest for justice, inspired by the actions of a real-life conman whose trail of victims made the author angry enough to imagine retribution - in some very inventive ways... The Sunstrike novels are set in a post-apocalyptic present day world when a major solar storm has wiped out all electrical technology. They are optimistic survival adventures following normal people learning and adapting to difficult new circumstances.

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      A Reassuring Guide to Self Publishing - Bev

      A Reassuring Guide to

      Self-Publishing

      Basics for beginners

      Bev Robitai

      Copyright Bev Robitai

      Smashwords edition, first published 2015

      Second edition updated July 2019

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      This book contains simple advice for basic publishing using the most common writing program (Word) and the most common sites (Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing and Smashwords.) It is not a substitute for expert or legal advice where such may be required and the author accepts no liability. Updates will be made from time to time but the digital world changes quickly so if in doubt, seek other sources to confirm information.

      Non-fiction, publishing, self publishing, ebooks, print on demand

      LAN027000 – Language Arts and Disciplines/Publishing

      DES001000 Design/Books

      Contents

      An Overview of the process

      The novice writer

      The practiced writer

      Essential book elements

      Layout for Kindle and Smashwords

      Print edition

      Setting up your publishing accounts

      Your book files

      Ready to upload and publish

      ISBNs

      Barcode

      Taxation

      Legal requirements

      Trusted sites for information

      About the Author

      Introduction

      I’ve been in the independent publishing game for quite a few years now and spend most of each working day helping other writers to publish their books. When I found I was sending the same emails over and over to clients explaining how to do things, I decided to put all the information in one place in a reassuring guide to self-publishing. This guide is as simple as I could make it. There are hundreds of technical publishing guides that can tell you how make your work look more professional, but most presume an easy familiarity with computers and a reasonable budget to invest in the project. This guide is for the beginner who regards computers with distrust and has little spare money for services they could do for themselves. It takes you all the way from typing THE END on your manuscript to banking your first royalty check. It doesn’t cover how to write well or how to market a sequel – just the part in between that enables you to get your finished book into the hands of readers.

      As you become more familiar with the processes you will be able to explore other ways of doing things. All the information you will ever need is already on-line. This book will build your confidence to use it once you’ve mastered the basics.

      If at times my advice sounds so simple it verges on patronizing, it’s only because I’ve had a client who has made that mistake or asked that question. I’ve learned not to assume any level of expertise. I’ll take you through each step, click by click, with screen shots to illustrate the process. (More advanced users can skim over the really basic stuff.) My apologies for the definition of some illustrations but screen shots are limited in their resolution.

      I’ll take you through formatting your book to upload as a simple ebook, and preparing a print-ready file for a decent paperback book. I’ll show you how to upload to an on-line print company like KDP for print on demand, or what to take to a local printer if you decide to use one. The instructions are based on Word as that’s the most common program in use by new writers, and the one widely accepted by the publishing sites, but so long as you can save your documents in .doc and/or PDF format you’ll be fine using any of the equivalent document programs.

      Scared of ISBNs and POD and EINs? We’ll pull these acronymic monsters out from under the bed and examine them in daylight.

      Worried by the legal requirements after publication? I’ll cover the procedures in each of the major English-speaking countries. How to get your book out there? The basics of promotion and what you really need to do.

      My aim is to hold your hand through the tricky parts of the journey and provide a reassuring guide on your path to

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