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Step 8: Publishing Your Paperback Through Kindle Direct Publishing
If you have already created your eBook, then you will have noticed that the eBook and paperback versions of the book are going to be automatically linked. That means that the information you added when creating the eBook can be reused for the paperback so you can skip the next three paragraphs. If you skipped…
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Step 7: Self Publishing your eBook through Kindle Direct Publishing
I published through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). This is a great service offered by Amazon that allows you to self-publish your work. Why would you want to self-publish? Well, if you want complete control over your work then this is a good option. It is also good if, like me, you felt completely overwhelmed by…
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Step 6: Preparing For Publication
If you did the last steps, you have now read through your finished work about three times and are likely happy with it. Now for the fun, fun task of putting it all together for publication through Kindle Direct Publishing. Create an account by clicking here. They have a tutorial for formatting your eBook that…
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Step 5: Edit!
Editing is an arduous task! I lost a lot of sleep wondering if I had used the right word or mistakenly used a word that was similar to the one I was thinking, but not quite right. I’d had friends offer their help, but in the end I was perhaps too much of a control…
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Step 4: Write!
Every writer is different, and so how you write is different. I think of writing as art, so it is okay to draw outside the lines sometimes! Styles will be different, so opinions will be different. That is okay! For me, I tend to get an idea, and I will then play the scene in…
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Step 3: Make a Thorough Outline
A good outline is key in helping to save time. I didn’t do this at first, and so I ended up having to go back frequently to read what I had already written, just to remember details or to see if a detail had already been mentioned. I’m not saying don’t write down a scene…
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Step 2: Pray About It
I am a Christian, and my faith permeates every facet of my life (or at least it should!). When it comes to my writing there is no exception. My faith in God has everything to do with what I write. The first thing I do when I begin is to pray that the work that…
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Step 1: Stop Talking About It
If you read my last post, then you already know that the difference between wanting something and actually having it is making a plan. In this article I’ll go over the plan that I used to self-publish my work through Kindle Direct Publishing. I think we all know at least one person who just talks…
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Finding the Time to Write
Before I became a mom, I was a graduate student. Back then I remember being overwhelmed by the workload, only to have a professor assure me that when I had children it would be even worse. I was terrified and skeptical at the same time. It turns out, he was right. Between cooking, cleaning, and…
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