Anna’s Comments (group member since Mar 21, 2017)

Anna’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Very, very interesting interview and so well written - this deserves to be shared.

Oh Carole, I'll have to send that around!

Oh cool...

I do so wish I could keep up with marketing!

Excellent, MJ! So good to return home to that!

Oh brilliant, Carole!

You can do a Kindle Countdown Deal on .com and .uk sites. That's all though, as far as I know.

Yes, D.J., I'm with you on the no illustrations!

I only publish (so far) on Amazon, Evelyn, so I stick with them.

Thank you, Carole and Alex.

And so glad to hear of other good news on this thread.

If you've mastered the templates so far, then I'd suggest you keep going.

Things started to look strange fairly early on and then I got fed up of pasting each chapter separately and then finding that they'd chosen a font for me that made my book come to 600+ pages. It really has about 280. Or had I pasted it two and a half times? Or what?

I only know that I am not going to be using them ever again. You've no idea how many times I deleted and downloaded another template. I had visions of Amazon banning me.

And once I was working without Amazon's templates, I loved formatting for paperback. Amazon have made it quick and easy once you've found their instructions. I should have printed all of them instead of just a few. The useful bits were scattered. I live and I learn but oh so slowly.

But we each work differently.

Thank you, Carole. You are a great, probably the best, encourager!

I've got family visiting this week (from abroad) so I have hardly any time to attend to my favourite 'to dos', i.e. writing related matters but I did just want to let this wonderfully supportive group know my good news. Everyone else will have to wait until either they all go out, or they go home. I love them dearly, of course, I adore them and so that's why writing has to wait.

Someone has nominated one of my books for an eBook award. Someone I hardly know alerted me to this so I took a look. I stared, I blinked, I checked several times and my book is still there. No doubt there will be some of you who have gone through this before and have felt the same.

I only wish I could thank the person who nominated my book.

https://bardsandsages.com/efestivalof...

P.S. Marie Silk's books are on there too. Congratulations Marie.

I never can find the right thread! I know we were talking about getting into paperback somewhere - but where?

Anyway, this seems like the right thread for what I hope will be helpful and if someone tells me where the rest of the group was having this conversation, I'll cut and paste this across.

Right! I am putting my four eBooks into paperback. Createspace might not be around for much longer so I've chosen Amazon's new fangled way of doing things.

My suggestion is not to use the templates - they tied me up for days on end and I came out with rubbish. Eventually I found that I could start in Word (which my eBook was written in). I just copied my Word copy as a Save As and named it 'Hide in Time for putting into print'. From there, it was easy to follow the instructions Amazon has hidden on its site, and it all worked acceptably well. There were a few hiccups but nothing too bothersome. NOT LIKE THE TEMPLATE VERSIONS! Yes, caps, yes shouting. Don't do it!

I've now ordered a proof copy. Of course, I may have to come back and say that was rubbish too. But I am confident that, at most, it will only need tweaking.

Remember - IGNORE THEIR TEMPLATES. I can't begin to list all the reasons why.

Good luck everyone.

What a good idea!

Please, please, please remind me one day when I need it, where this thread is!

Well done to those who've got through.

Congratulations for the first part of your post and good luck with the last sentence!!!!!

Non-writers simply do not understand how long it takes to book adverts on some of these sites, do they?

I'm getting better - I label some sites as 'easy to book' and they get my attention first.

The UK Mothering Sunday was back in March! But I wish all mothers everywhere the love of their children and grandchildren (and so on!) and a very happy day.

I think the idea is that readers can follow you (as on BookBub) and then - who knows? Perhaps they let subscribers know when you have a new book out.

Don't worry though, I know what you mean, all this effort for probably little or no return. I rarely fill these things in myself except when I find I haven't got as much to do as usual! Apparently this is a new idea for Book Gorilla. Silly name, isn't it? Or am I missing something?

http://blog.bookgorilla.com/authors-w...

Useful? You can create a free author's page.

Half way there - or thereabouts!

I'm cheering you on C.L! :)