How to Make Kindle Comics - Final Draft Complete

After numerous additions, several revisions, and half a dozen lengthy delays, the final draft of How to Make Kindle Comics & Graphic Novels is finally complete. 




Since I began this project back in December, Amazon has made major updates to the entire Kindle Fire line, upgraded Kindlegen, and released Kindle Comic Creator, all of which threw my efforts into sudden turmoil. My only hope now is to get through one last copy-edit pass and convert the thing to ebook format before a new line of Kindles is released!




The final manuscript comes in just shy of 70,000 words, with around 160 images. Additionally, I have added a number of new features to the Advanced Template (Version 3.0) to provide further examples of concepts covered in the guide, and this will be uploaded when the ebook is released.




My current plan is to upload the file to NetGalley and let it run its course for two or three weeks before the official launch, putting it somewhere around Memorial Day. This is what is called a "soft launch" in publishing circles. Some would call it sloppy. I call it necessity. Since I do all the work myself from start to finish - research, writing, testing, art, layout, and editing, not to mention marketing - and do it all on nights and weekends in between my real life as a bookseller, it's difficult to say when any given task will be checked off the never-ending list.




But this was the big one. From here it's all downhill.




I want to thank all of you who have waited patiently, and promise that I'll get the ebook posted up as soon as possible.