DIY Publishing: A Step-By-step Guide for Print and Ebook Formatting and Distribution

· Windtree Press
Ebook
362
Pages

About this ebook

In this guide, Lynch demystifies the technology with her easy-to-read explanations, as she helps you properly format your word processor document for conversion to all publish-ready file types. Each step contains illustrated examples and screen shots of the software. 

Lynch also shares vital insights that are indispensable to writers of fiction and non-fiction alike about the changing state of publishing, the realities of discoverability, and the importance of metadata in our digital world. This book will provide instructions for everything you need to professionally design your final product and submit it to all major distributors in both print and ebook.

About the author

Maggie Lynch has never missed a chance to learn something new. With degrees in psychology, counseling, computer science, and education she has had opportunities that have taken her around the world, including Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. Her current publishing credits include five non-fiction books, a number of science fiction short stories, and seven novels.

Now able to spend full time journeying into her imagination, Maggie writes romance and science fiction under the name Maggie Jaimeson, and young adult fantasy under the name Maggie Faire. Her non-fiction is written under Maggie McVay Lynch.


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