by Karen Brown | Oct 2, 2023 | Formatting, Formatting images, Formatting text, Publish your book, Self-publishing
Each year, I order a planner from a specific author. It’s quirky, colourful and fun, and yet one year, I received a copy, and it was just black and white. When I contacted the author, I found out they’d had trouble uploading it onto Amazon, and so had gone...
by Karen Brown | Jul 25, 2023 | Amazon KDP, Formatting, Formatting text, Publish your book, Self-publishing, Using MS Word
As a seasoned author, I find immense joy in formatting books for authors, and preparing them for upload onto Amazon KDP. If you’re familiar with MS Word, you’ll be delighted to know that achieving a professional finish is a breeze with just a few simple...
by Karen Brown | Feb 10, 2022 | Amazon KDP, Formatting, Publish your book, Self-publishing
One of my favourite things to do is to take a messy manuscript and turn it into a lovely well-ordered file ready to upload to Amazon, Lulu and IngramSpark. I’m also a bit of a troubleshooter when it comes to formatting issues, so I’d just like to share the...
by Karen Brown | Jan 9, 2022 | Book covers, Book editing, Formatting, Publish your book, Self-publishing
How do you make a self-published book not look “self-published” was a question that I was invited to answer on Quora, however, the real question was how do you make a self-published book look professional. I’ve read a huge amount of books and many of...
by Karen Brown | Jan 2, 2022 | Book covers, Book editing, Formatting, Publish your book, Self-publishing
I was writing the answer to a Quora post when the idea for this post came up. The question was around publishing a book so that it looks professional, but to me it was about the investments you should make in your book to make it look professional. Amazon have made...
by Karen Brown | Mar 30, 2021 | Formatting, Publish your book, Using MS Word
There are several reasons why you might want to learn how to re-size a document in MS Word. I do this all the time when I’m creating the structure of my books for example, but if you were looking to create printables to sell on Etsy, then you need to consider...
