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    Self-Publishing on a Budget
    Self-Publishing on a Budget
    Self-Publishing on a Budget
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    Self-Publishing on a Budget

    By Earl R. Dingman

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    Teaches the newcomer to self--publishing about free and paid editing, grammar tools, formatting your book text for both eBooks and print books. Fonts, size, style of text, indents and paragraphing. A look inside the process of making a print book. Introduction to Copyrights. Sample of how a simple cover is made using free programs like Paint. Webpages with an HTML primer so you can code a simple page. An introduction to promotion and tools like Twitter and Facebook. Resource links to both free and paid services.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publishererdprod Books
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781370172108
    Self-Publishing on a Budget
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    Earl R. Dingman

    In print since 1967 with non-fiction articles in Sky and Telescope, Mix, Music Connection, Complete Woman, Income Opportunities, Moving Image, Technical Photography and was on staff at Issues Magazine for five years.

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      Book preview

      Self-Publishing on a Budget - Earl R. Dingman

      Self-Publishing on A Budget

      By Earl R. Dingman

      Copyright © 2017 by Earl R. Dingman, All Rights Reserved.

      First e-Book January 2017

      ISBN: 9781370172108

      Printed in U.S.A.

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      GETTING STARTED

      GETTING YOUR BOOK READY TO CONVERT

      EDITING

      PROFESSIONAL EDITING

      DO-IT-YOURSELF EDITING

      GRAMMARLY

      GINGER

      PRO WRITING AID

      PARAGRAPHING

      FONT AND TYPESETTING WITH SAMPLES

      THE FLOW OF YOUR TEXT

      INSERTING PICTURES

      CHAPTER BREAKS

      SUMMARY OF GETTING STARTED

      PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK

      MAKING AN EBOOK

      MAKING A PRINT BOOK

      DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NOOK AND CREATESPACE

      CREATESPACE

      CREATESPACE MARGINS

      NOOK MARGINS

      KINDLE PAPERBACKS

      COPYRIGHTS

      SUMMARY OF BOOK MAKING

      PROMOTION

      OPTIONAL PROMO STUFF

      HOSTING WEBSITES

      SAMPLE HTML PAGE CODE WITH ANNOTATIONS

      REVIEW OF BASIC HTML CODE TAGS

      TWITTER

      FACEBOOK

      BUSINESS CARDS

      APPENDIX

      Free eBook Publishers

      Free Print On Demand Publishers

      Paid Book and eBook publishers

      Cover Designers

      Website Hosting

      Grammar and Editing Tools

      Rip Offs and Bogus

      Review Sites

      Miscellaneous

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      FOREWORD

      I plan on publishing this eBook through Smashwords as they allow for FREE offerings and I don't want to charge for something this short nor do I approve of charging writers for information that is available through a Google search, trial and error, posted at the Facebook Writers Group sites or from people answering your posts.

      Writers are poor people and get charged enough for things people say they need and I didn't wish to contribute to this situation.

      Take note, in order to get this on Amazon for Kindle I may have to charge 99 cents there, as that is their minimum, and then I hope that my Nook, iPad Books and Smashwords $0.00 becomes a competitive price at Amazon, otherwise to get on Kindle I must charge their minimum. Sorry about that, but that is out of my hands.

      Just so you know, all of you can go start a Smashwords account for free and go through their library and buy any offering they have in MOBI (Kindle), ePUB (Nook, iPad, etc.), PDF, Sony and even TXT format. Also, you can get free eBook readers from Amazon and the Microsoft Store for PC, MAC and Tablets.

      As a point of reference the Table of Contents (TOC) for this book was done automatically in Word 365 by the use of Headings 1, 2 and 3. It doesn’t always work right, so try it out first and make sure you check the use the hyperlinks if you plan to make an eBook so the reader can click on a chapter or sub-heading and go straight there. Smashwords suggested using the BOOKMARK feature of Word instead of the CONTENTS maker. (These didn't work well for me with Nook style ePUB books, at least not in one of my readers, so I went back to the automatic review method in Word.)

      As for the cover, I made that. I put some books on a blue cloth along with an eBook reader device, shot a picture, put it into Gimp 2 (which is a free program), and Paint (that comes with Windows). I then worked with it for three hours making it look clean. See: Getting Started.

      I would like to thank the various Writer Groups on Facebook and those writers who shared information with myself and others. Anyone finding a mistake in this book, please point it out and I'll see about correcting it as soon as possible. If you want to get listed in the appendix post at my Facebook page.

      E.R.D. January 2017

      GETTING STARTED

      Congratulations, you've finished your book, and you've tried to find an agent or submitted directly to a publisher, so now you have a file folder full of rejection slips.

      You're not alone, we've all been there.

      The next step is self-publishing and the days of the vanity press along with the stigma attached to it are long-gone in the internet age.

      You can publish your own trade paperback print book and eBook for $50 or less. In some instances, if you want to perfect it you may have to spend more, but we're talking about getting it out there for as little as you can possibly get away with!

      Now, this assumes you know how to spell and have a good command of grammar. If you don't, then you may have to buy the tools you need to make things better.

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