Monthly Archives: March 2017

ePub preparation 2

Scrivener

So I’ve converted my book successfully into an ePub which can be read by Kobo and Overdrive. It was a fairly straight forward process. Guido Henkel’s book, the Zen of eBook Publishing is easy to follow. I have a glancing knowledge of CSS (cascading style sheets) so I wasn’t terrified when he suggested strongly that I should convert my word document into an HTML document by copying and pasting it into an HTML editor. There were some steps to do before you paste it into the editor, principally so you can locate some of your stylistic flourishes like italics and chapter headings etc. but his instructions were very clear. So that worked really well.

The next step is to convert it to an amazon format – mobi.

ePub preperation

Beast Master

One of the steps towards publishing Beast Master is converting the book into ePub format.  I had been planning on using a publishing platform like smashwords or amazon to convert my word document into an ePub. I had made one attempt to convert a word doc into an ePub just to see what it was like using Calibre. While it did the job, the chapter headings and my scene breaks did not come out the way I wanted them to look. Which led me to worry about using an on-line conversion utility where I would have no control over how my document is interpreted. So I did a search on the internet looking for help and found a book, Zen of eBook Formatting: A Step-by-step Guide To Format eBooks for Kindle and EPUB by Guido Henkel. There is lots of good stuff in the book which I have utilised. Now, to see what his suggestions look like in an actual ePub!

Another step closer to publishing

Beast Master

I had a meeting with my daughter several weeks ago regarding steps to take for publishing my book, Beast Master. We set a publication date and decided on marketing strategies. Of course all the steps that had to be done to get there falls on my shoulders. I set up tasks to do and then promptly went on holidays to ski. The skiing was great, the task completion not so much. Hopefully I’ll catch. up.