Publishing Your Print Book with Amazon Book Templates
Thinking about paperback publishing? Colleen Chesebro has the advice that saves you time without pulling your hair.
I’ve recently published and (republished one from CreateSpace) both of my paperback books using Amazon’s 6 X 9 Template for a MAC.
After practically pulling my hair out by the roots, here’s what I learned.
- If you are starting with a Word document with the intention of copying and pasting into the Amazon template, leave it at the 8.5″ X 11″ size. I used 1.5 line spacing on one book, and 1.15 line spacing on the one I brought over from CreateSpace. I justified the text and added page numbers. On the CreateSpace book, I left it at the 1.15 line spacing with first-line paragraph indents because the size increased.
Selfpublishingschool.com shares some great tips on formatting your novel. There is a debate right now as to whether or not you need to do a first line indent on paragraphs in fiction books. I did do it for…
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Thank you!
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After practically pulling my hair out by the roots, here’s what I learned means ??
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After practically pulling my hair out by the roots, here’s what I learned don’t understand ???
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I have helpers doing my publishing so that I could save my hair. I still read about how to do it though.
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Fantastic post from my Sister of the Fey Colleen. ❤
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She is always so helpful and encouraging. ❤
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Yes she is! ❤
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I’m glad to learn so much before putting my first book out there. The friend in the Poetry class will be helping me and other people to do self publishing on Amazon. At least I don’t need to pull my hair like Colleen did. 🙂
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No kidding! But actually, it’s just formatting that is the hair raiser, which I refuse to get involved with, lol. Once you have the ebook and paperback book formatted, downloading to Amazon isn’t bad at all. 🙂
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I bought a program that give me the How To, and the template. After I found out he offers to do it for free, I just wait for him to do. Actually, I’m going to a Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) – a program for the retirees held at 26 State universities. I’m taking Poetry for Fun, and will go to his Publish before Parish class. In this class, he let us know how to do our part before he does his part for self publishing. There is also a Creative Writing class where they pretty much critique each others work. I’ve been going for four years. 🙂 Most of them are retired teachers and school administrators. ❤
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That’s wonderful Miriam. It’s great that you are taking interest in learning the business before you publish. 🙂 xx
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I’ve heard stories and saw posts on social sites. 🙂
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Many thanks for sharing, Miriam. Hugs. ❤
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Mu pleasure, Colleen. ❤
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