What was to be a wonderful honeymoon has turned into a nightmare as people are being murdered, and Shelly’s husband is the security guard’s number one suspect. Join Shelly, Curly, and Tucker in this exciting and fast-paced sequel to A Vengeful Spirit as they track down the real guilty party aboard a Caribbean cruise ship.
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Hilariously Off-The-Wall, Loved it. (5 stars)The Rejected Writers’ Book Club. Need I say more? The title alone indicates that this book will be in direct opposition to every writer/author out there. But in what sense?
A humorous rollercoaster ride not unlike Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Who in their right in mind would be horrified at getting a letter for publication? Any of the ladies in the Rejected Writers’ Book Club, that’s who. These never-wanna-be writers come together to enjoy each others company, Doris’ delicious cakes, and each others terrible writing. In fact, they get a kick out of how bad they are, admitting with light-hearted humor that they are “horrible.” (more…)
Since I do a lot of technical as well as novel writing, I need both curly and straight quotes in word. Thanks to Practical Typography, I found this extremely easy…
Yippie! Your ebook is published. Now, you need to set up your Author Central Account.
When you received notification from Amazon on your publishing success, they included several links to where you can set up an Author Page. Below is how you can set up the page for Amazon.com (US), and then you can simply copy and paste the information into all the other Amazon accounts. (more…)
Excerpt from eBook Formatting & Publishing Guide 4.0
Many of you are picking up this book after you have your manuscript written and ready to publish. So you may have a little more work than others starting from scratch.
Before I get into how to clean up your manuscript, I want to share how to make a Writing Template – so you hopefully won’t have to go through this process again. (more…)
What is the biggest mistake self-publishing authors make when preparing their book for ebook conversion? Improper word formatting of Paragraph Indents.
Old school taught us to use the tab key to make paragraph indents. This can be a difficult habit to break—but break it you must.
NEVER use the tab key or spacebar to indent paragraphs
Now I am not saying you can’t use the spacebar, ever. But you should never EVER be using the tab key when preparing your Word (or other program) document for conversion—print or digital. (more…)
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Gravatar.com What are they?
Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?
You can brand your name, your book, link to your site – all the time you are commenting and building connections. It is done seamlessly and silently.
But they are so much more… They include your bio, links to your websites, images of you your book. And best of all they are free. If you have not set up this easy marketing tool – then do so now. Easy-Peasy Author Marketing Tip!
Setting up Gravatars on your site is easy; you don’t even need an account! Plugins are available for leading blog software and content management systems, and our tutorials will have you running Gravatars in no time. (more…)
Yippie! Your ebook is published. Now, you need to set up your Author Central Account. When you received notification from Amazon on your publishing success, they included several links to…
Excerpt from eBook Formatting & Publishing Guide 4.0 Many of you are picking up this book after you have your manuscript written and ready to publish. So you may have…
Ready-to-go Self-Publishing Design Book and eBook Templates Not only have we made the process of formatting your ebook easier, we've included an entire package to help you create your eBook,…
Below is the coding for a linkable table of contents.
If you split your chapters into individual HTML pages, then your TOC would appear like this:
<p><a id="toc"/></p> <p>Table of Contents</p> <p><a href="../Text/content.xhtml">Chapter 1</a></p> <p><a href="../Text/chapter2.xhtml">Chapter 2</a></p> <p><a href="../Text/chapter3.xhtml">Chapter 3</a></p> <p><a href="../Text/ack.xhtml">Acknowledgements</a></p> <p><a href="../Text/author.xhtml">About the Author</a></p>
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How to link to a Youtube video or embed the actual video on your Wordpress / Blog site. OPTION ONE - CREATING A LINK TO THE YOUTUBE VIDEO Go to…
CSS level 2 does not have a property for centering things vertically. There will probably be one in CSS level 3. However, you can center block vertically in CSS2 by…
Centering images can add a special design appeal to your ebook formatting. This can be applied book-wide (to all images) or applied individually. The easiest way to center images is…
Calling attention to a block of text At times, in both nonfiction and fiction ebook formatting, you may want to set off an area of text from the rest of…
At times, in both nonfiction and fiction ebook formatting, you may want to set off an area of text from the rest of the content. The easiest way to center…
Centering images can add a special design appeal to your ebook formatting. This can be applied book-wide (to all images) or applied individually. The easiest way to center images is to make the image a block of its own and set the margins to ‘auto’.
Here is an example:
CSS
img.individual {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
HTML
<IMG class="individual" src="..." alt="...">
CSS level 2 does not have a property for centering things vertically. There will probably be one in CSS level 3. However, you can center block vertically in CSS2 by…
To create an e-book requires converting your manuscript into an HTML format. And to make the process as painless as possible, there are certain Do’s and Don’ts you should be aware of when preparing your manuscript.
NOTICE: In the following, I refer to Microsoft Word, but you can use any word processing program you prefer, such as Open Office.
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FIRST: You are not concerned about the appearance of the book at this point. You are only preparing the page with the proper styles so it can be easily converted to HTML. I will modify the look and design when I import your manuscript.
Need to DO:
FIRST: Before you do any of the following, make a backup copy of your manuscript.
SECOND: Turn on the ‘pilcrow’ or ¶ in the top menu. This will display all the hidden characters such as paragraphs and spaces. The spaces are indicated with miniscule dots, so you may have to enlarge the page view to determine how many there are at the beginning of a sentence.
What is addressed:
Need to Know:
^p = paragraph
^t = tab
^l = soft return (more…)
These handy shortcuts make formatting much easier. If you don't like the shortcuts Sigil has assigned, you can change them under Preferences. ( Sigil > Preferences, or ⌘, ) To…
Highlight eBook Text using background-color The CSS code can be added to your external or internal stylesheet. Works with iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook Color; does not display on older Kindles…
The Kindle Previewer is a program provided by Amazon for ebook designers to proof their work. Kindle Previewer is a graphical user interface tool that emulates how books display across…