Key steps to self publishing

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Key steps and references to help prepare for self publishing on Amazon Kindle and CreateSpace Print On Demand (POD)

I recently helped Nicola published her novel The Belvedere Club on both Amazon Kindle and CreateSpace Paperback POD.

Publishing on these two medium is not hard. If you are not the preparing type, you can just jump into each of the publishing steps on the respective sites below, and figure it out as you go. The process does not have to be done all in one go. You can stop at any step, figure things out and get back to it when you’re ready.

If you are the preparing type and want to go through the process smoothly, there are many online resources to help you prepare for it. However, after having gone through that process, the information out there is all over the place. If I had had a simple logical outline, of all the things that needed to be done and prepared before going through the process, it would have made our life easier and saved us a lot of back and forth.

This is an attempt at providing such an outline Smile

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Tomato Time

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I’ve been a busy little rabbit, preparing for the publishing of my mystery novel, The Belvedere Club . So sandwiched between last week’s guest bloggers, Bette & J.J. Lamb and next week’s guest blogger Patricia Morin, I’m going to offer up one of my favorite tomato sauce recipes, learned while eating my way across Tuscany in 2009.

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The Magic of Imagination

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Myths. One of the great myths is that anyone can write, draw, paint, sculpt, sing, dance, or act. Mechanically, technically, probably yes. Creatively, no.

There was a time when we believed that anyone could do anything in the creative arts, given the appropriate training and inspiration to nurture obvious talent, and to bring latent talent to the surface.

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Formatting, Formatting, Formatting

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Thinking of self-publishing on a digital format? What writers aren’t these days? I’ve been listening to other writers tell their self-publishing stories for a couple of months and the number one thing I take away from these lectures is “Formatting.”

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Mystery Theatre

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What’s worse than a table full of mystery writers at a Mystery Theatre Dinner? Answer: Six tables of mystery writers.

While at the Left Coast Crime Convention last weekend, I attended the Mystery Theatre Dinner that took place on a 1920’s riverboat, The Delta King. I’ve always wanted to participate in one of these events—what mystery writer doesn’t want to test their skills. I’ve even been tempted to buy one of the games and host one at my house.

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