CreateSpace Quick & Easy Self-Publishing Manual
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About this ebook
This book is crafted for the new author venturing in to paperback publishing. Some benefits of this book are:
* Clearing the forest of trees of information you don't need
* Understanding CreateSpace’s role versus the traditional publisher's
* Selecting your book size intelligently
* Why not to go with color for the interior book pages?
* How to format your manuscript to CreateSpace standards
* How to use Word to create your manuscript
* You WILL use Word styles to format your manuscript.
Links to worthwhile information sources and templates are provided such as.
* What fiction and non-fiction styles you should adopt.
* Samples of good book formatting design
* The elements of a good cover design
* Paperback book formatting isn’t the same as ebook formatting.
* The basic parts of a book that belong in yours.
* Tips to remain sane while reaching the goal of publishing your own book.
* Fiverr the General Contractor’s dream
* You can farm out what you can’t do yourself.
This book seeks to be your mentor by guiding you away from the amateur pitfalls many new authors fall in. You don’t know what you don’t know or should know! Without that knowledge Do It Yourself may lead to confusion and misunderstandings that harm. The more you can do for yourself, the cheaper the cost of self-publishing. Print on demand (POD) publishing is here to stay and may even help ebooks sell.
What two paperback book sizes do I recommend?
* 5.25 X 8 inches
* 6 X 9 inches
CreateSpace is an excellent choice for self-publishing your paperback book. You will find examples of the process, you will be using for your paperback book. Just follow the guided structure path and don’t try to wing it on your own. This book will be out first as a Kindle ebook followed shortly by a CreateSpace paperback. You should consider covering your reader base too!
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Ronald E. Newton
Ronald E. Newton I spent eight years with the USAF Security Service serving overseas. Military intelligence is not an oxymoron. Worked several years as a medicare claims examiner for the state of New Jersey. Finally found a job I liked. Meaning I love to work my job. After 32 years retired from IBM as a networking consultant. It was an eye opener to work in the back rooms of corporate America. Some where in the journey I married a southern belle and moved to the south. Two sons and daughter entered my family and all of them have left home to be on their own. They still come back though. After receiving helping hands in my career, I taught for free, the SAT in Greensboro, NC for 25 years. Every college graduate was a satisfying victory for me and my students. The lesson learned there was don't teach---Mentor! Became immersed in a new network called the Internet. Imagine PCs instead of water cooled main frames. Worked to launch free blogs at triadblogs.com. Developed mentoring site for SAT, GED and Personal Finances. I have a personal blog at www.rnewton.net/wordpress/ and an author's website at www.rnewton.net. You may email me or get links to my mentoring sites from my author's website. Please drop by and kick the tires. I was first published in Negro Digest in 1964. My how the years have flown. Why should you give a book review? Take a look at this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0T37CeqIY How to write a book review. Watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuxopkUVNds
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CreateSpace Quick & Easy Self-Publishing Manual - Ronald E. Newton
Copyright © 2016 Low Cost Internet Biz LLC
Written by Ronald E. Newton
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ONCE AGAIN I’M SENDING my book out into the cruel world with affectionate care and best wishes for its success. The family hopes, with astonishment, that you’ll buy it from their crazy father. I share the same sentiment, but I’m not crazy.
I know a good thing when I find it. So I married a southern belle
25 years ago this June. She slowed down enough for me to catch her. She has stayed put ever since, keeping an eye on me, and pursuing her own interests. She’s quite a lady in my opinion.
To all who contributed a sincere thank you.
Beta Book Readers
Yvette Holmes
Robert Newton
Cover designer Lydiachai
Book designer Purity_k
I n t r o d u c t i o n
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YOU HAVE PUBLISHED AN ebook on Amazon. What’s an ebook your friends say? Now you need to become an educator of ebooks. But if you had a paperback book with you sitting on your coffee table you’re a fully official published author. A sided benefit is that your fiends can hold a copy in their hands. There are three book markets:
The paperback book market CreateSpace operates in.
The digital market of ebooks, audio books, and some PDF books.
The traditional hard cover book market still hanging in there.
Amazon allows me to market my ebook and paperback book to their customers. Remember that customers have reading preference and I hope to sell my book media to them not just ignore their preference.
Paperback books have an air of legitimacy compared to an ebook. You should love to cover the demographics of your buying public. Going to book signings with just an ebook and no paperback books is not practical — it’s embarrassing. No one is going to let you scrawl your signature on their Kindle, Nook, or Kobo ereader.
This book was written to aid a person new to self-publishing a print on demand paperback book. The author believes that you can:
Write the book’s manuscript
Design the book’s cover
Format manuscript to designed book’s styles with Microsoft Word™ computer program.
Copyedit the book
Proofread the book
Publish the book
Select the book’s distribution channel(s).
Design or has made the cover for your ebook or book
You will design or have made for your book its cover. Think of yourself as the general contractor of a building project. He or she will perform some tasks in the building project. Which, will be those tasks the general contractor wants