So, I researched Christmas names: Joseph, Nicholas, Rudolph, etc. ![]() He came up with a great idea: use a Christmas name. Lin came upstairs to my computer, and I told him what I was doing. I researched safe names to use for men characters in a book and came up with Alex. On Wednesday morning, I knew I had to change my first husband’s name. Good thing I brought it up to my book coach. So somehow, while I was resizing the pictures, I forgot about changing his name in the revisions Tuesday night. My husband, Lin, had offered the same advice while we discussed this in the hot tub on Monday night. I haven’t talked to him in over forty years, so calling was out of the question. The solutions they offered: change his name or call him and ask permission. None of what I wrote about him was derogatory, but I have become super cautious about using people’s names. On Tuesday morning, I asked my book coach and group about using my ex-husband’s name in my book. So, I resized and resized and resized, going back and forth several times between KDP and Vellum. Then, I have several pictures in the book and the placement in Vellum wasn’t true to size. So, in Vellum, the program I use to create my books, I moved it forward one page, but then had to upload the document again. KDP has an online previewer, thank God! First, I realized I had the Copyright page in the wrong place-after the Table of Contents, not before it. Anticipation about this day had hovered over me for weeks. Then I uploaded the manuscript to KDP, excited I was finally there. When a customer searches on Amazon, their search engines use keywords and book categories to find the book-super important for the sales of a book! ![]() Lots of research goes into launching a new book for keywords and categories. I filled in all the required information, which I prepared for a couple of days ahead of time. Let me share it with you!Įagerly on Monday, first, I created the new e-book space on KDP, an affiliate of Amazon. Why? Well, if you’ve ever had the displeasure of putting an e-book together, you’ll have experienced the excruciating pain of making sense of any of this - it’s a huge pain in the rectum, finally resolved by an elegant piece of software that takes most of the hassle out of the process.Moving parts of publishing an e-book-so many for sure! My new e-book, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir, has made it through the ringer, available now! This week I struggled with the process and succeeded. A bit of a setback if you’re a Windows or Linux jockey, but for the Mac fans among us, you’re golden.Īs you can tell, I’m a wee bit excited about Vellum. Vellum is only available for Mac, with no plans in the pipeline for other platforms. Once you have a license you can make as many books with as many pen names for as long as you like. If you want to upgrade from one tier to another, you’ll be charged $100, so it may be worth doing a bit of planning ahead. The company’s pricing scheme is interesting, with two tiers available: a $200 tier for e-books only, or a $250 tier for both electron-powered books and books: Deforestation Edition. ![]() Best of all, you can proof it all using any PDF reader - such as the Preview app. Either way, Vellum takes care of all of that, plus converting images to print-ready black and white. You also need to do typography geekery such as widow prevention (avoiding single sentences on a page) and spread balancing. Taking an e-book for an outing into meatspace includes knowing about margins, trim sizes, font sizes and page numbering, and creating front matter, headers and footers and page-numbered tables of contents. Vellum 2.0 can create print-ready files for e-books, even if you’re not a massive print nerd (like yours truly). The biggest change for today’s 2.0 launch is that the package now supports creating books for print, too, with an integration for on-demand printing services like IngramSpark and CreateSpace. Vellum’s previous version has been out for a few years, and there are plenty of e-books that have been created using the software already. The software makes it easy to create box sets, too, if you’re a particularly prolific word-writer
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