Theodore’s Comments (group member since Apr 01, 2017)

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

Kimberly wrote: "Anna Faversham wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "Today my publisher began the 5 day Free Book Download Promo for my 1st book(have 3 books). A few hours ago it became a best seller. It hit #1 in the UK and #..."

That is neat!

Dale wrote: "Theodore wrote: "I just received a note from Al at NABE that Alyssa's and my third book in the series Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction, a flash fiction anthology, won Best Book in the category of ANTHO..."

Thanks, Dale.

Carmel wrote: "Kudos to you both. .. how exciting for you!!"

Thanks, Carmel. I'll let you in on a little secret: Alyssa Devine is one of the pen names I use. (I have another that I've used for more than 40 years, but that's a deep, dark secret (;>) ).

Ted

Erica wrote: "That is fantastic! Congrats!"

Thanks, Erica.

Thanks, all! Much appreciated.

I just received a note from Al at NABE that Alyssa's and my third book in the series Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction, a flash fiction anthology, won Best Book in the category of ANTHOLOGY.

Those are interesting questions, Sandy, but it sounds more like you're interested in doing a market survey in preparation for developing a product/app/aid. It would help to know more about you, as well; your profile is private.

D.J. wrote: "Oh I tried adding them manually. Cured myself of that one. When I uploaded to KDP they were not in the same place as they were on the screen. So they went. I’ll have to see how it looks in the proo..."

I have been using drop caps for almost nine years...Georgia 12pt, three lines dropped in my paperback editions. And yes, when I create my Kindle editions, they sometimes show up as three lines dropped, sometimes four. The display can be different depending on the device and the magnification...it varies all over the place. I don't care...I like the look.

Every "no" is one step closer to a "yes." Good luck, Dale.

Alex wrote: "OMG OMG OMG!!!!

I got accepted for a BookBub featured ad on my first try.

Okay, so it's an international deal rather than a US deal but I'm still mighty pleased and I only have to wait until 05/..."

That's terrific, Alex. Good luck!!!

Ted

Alex wrote: "As indie authors we break with the accepted conventions on an almost daily basis, Ted."

And in that may lie one of the reasons we are not taken seriously.

Alex wrote: "Theodore wrote: "D.J. wrote: "I didn’t realise that. I just knew that all chapter ones start on an odd page for whatever hundreds of years old rule!"

ALL chapters (ALL) must start on an odd page, ..."

I, personally, would not publish books that didn't meet accepted conventions.

My experience with CS is that on at one occasion, they kicked back my submission because in the conversion from Word to pdf, a chapter start somehow slipped to an even page. Once that ONE error was corrected, the book sailed through to publication.

D.J. wrote: "I didn’t realise that. I just knew that all chapter ones start on an odd page for whatever hundreds of years old rule!"

ALL chapters (ALL) must start on an odd page, not just Chapter 1. And I don't know from where that rule comes.

D.J. wrote: "I didn’t realise that. I just knew that all chapter ones start on an odd page for whatever hundreds of years old rule!"

I did some research. The practice may have started at the dawn of bookmaking:

Originally, a "chapter" would have been the top page of a folded sheet (as explained in the link given by h0p3y). A book would have had as many "chapters" as folded sheets. And the top of a folded sheet is always a right-hand page."

https://ask.metafilter.com/202383/Why...

D.J. wrote: "That’s it. What is the reason for starting chapter one on an odd numbered page? I know every book I’ve ever read is like that but where did the rule come from? Did someone just decide that’s how it..."

It came down with the Ten Commandments. (;>)

The fact is, she won't get her son's book published unless the chapters start on odd-numbered pages. The KDP editors will reject the book.

D.J. wrote: "In word I think you need to specify a new section. But I can’t remember how to do it without doing it. I hate that job."
That is exactly correct.

It's messy, Julia. First, you can't start Chapter One on page 6...new chapters must start on an ODD page, so you'll have to add a blank page so that the first chapter starts on page 7 (in the sequence of pages). Then, on that blank page, page 6, you'll have to insert a new section, just as D.J. said. This is done by going to Layout, Break, Section Breaks, Odd Page.

You don't have to number pages 1 trough 6, though some might use Roman numbers there.

On what is the seventh page, go to the footer, but start the numbering with 1. That should take care of things.

Julia wrote: "Theodore wrote: "Julia wrote: "Does anyone know how to number the pages in a KDP paperback?

My son is nearly done, but is stuck with that one problem."

I assume he's using Word. Is it a mechanica..."

I think you'll find the answer here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+n...

You can do what you want in Word by clicking on Insert, Page Number, Bottom

Julia wrote: "Does anyone know how to number the pages in a KDP paperback?

My son is nearly done, but is stuck with that one problem."

I assume he's using Word. Is it a mechanical problem that he's having? For example, does he want to number the front material (copyright page, TOC, etc.) in Roman, and then switch to Arabic for his text (which requires dividing the document into sections), or such things as starting a new chapter on an odd-numbered page. What do you mean by the word "problem"?

Justin wrote: "Anytime I've changed the book description of my books and hit publish Amazon asks if I want to create a paperback which I usually decline.

Seems now like Theodore said and showed us, we can just t..."

I continue to "publish" revised editions of old and new books on CS without a problem. I just released the third of my flash fiction anthologies on April 5th, and have the fourth, fifth, and sixth books in the series sitting on CS for release on June 5th, July 5th, and August 5th. I continually update them, as necessary, and all updates have been approved within 24 hours of submission.

Fingers crossed.

D.J. wrote: "But it seems to be almost expected."

Yes, of course, America today: everything for everybody, for nothing. I have an answer for that, but it's not for mixed company.