Book Formatting Essentials: Start at the Beginning with the End in Mind

Is your final goal to have a nice Word document with a well developed story? If you said yes, then read no further. For most of us, that sounds ridiculous. Nobody goes to Amazon or iTunes to download a Word doc, do they? The sad truth is some of us—self-publishers—stop at the Word doc and upload it directly to CreateSpace, IngramSpark, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), and other places with hopes it will become a breakout success.I’ve seen way too many books that haven’t been properly formatted...