Publisher's Synopsis
Are You Tired of Pulling Your Hair Out Trying to Format Your Book in Word?
You can relax.
You now have available everything you need to format a book in Word - easily and hassle-free. In How to Format Your Book in Word, you are taken from book formatting basics through the steps to format your ebooks and paper book, all the way to upload your book files online. No doubt about it, Word has hundreds of features and tools, but you don't need ALL of them when formatting a book. The author focuses only on the tools you need to format your book. Therefore you don't waste time. Book formatting need not be a nightmare anymore. In this book you have all the detailed steps (with over 300 screenshots & images) to enable you to:
- Format your book for Kindle
- Format your book for Smashwords, and
- Format your book for CreateSpace.
Just some of the items that are covered...
1 Book Formatting Basics
Book Design Examples
Book Structure
Front Matter
Body Matter
Back Matter
2 Format Your Kindle Ebook
Formatting Your Word Manuscript File for Kindle
Style Ideas for the Kindle
Ebook Structure
3 Format Your Smashwords Ebook
Prepare Your Word File
Paragraph Style
Style Formatting
Links
Table of Contents (ToC) and Navigation
Create a linked Table of Contents (ToC)
Adding Bookmarks
Linking to Bookmarks
4 Designing Your Hard Copy Book
Book Design Basics
Book Design Checklist
Book Design Elements
Pagination, Page and Section Breaks
Headings, Headers & Footers
Set Heading Style
Tables & Columns
d104 Boxes
Inserting Cross-references
Inserting a Table of Contents
Footnote, Index & Bibliography
5 Uploading and Publishing Your Book Online
Why Self-Publishing Online Makes Sense
Self-Publish Your Kindle Ebook
Self-Publish at Smashwords
Self-Publishing Your Book to CreateSpace
...and a LOT more.
"This book is a goldmine for anyone trying to learn how to format their own books. It's filled with step-by-step instructions, pictures, and a hyper-detailed process for designing professional looking books. Use it to save countless hours of frustration and hair-pulling." - Derek Murphy, Creativeindie
"I was so pleased when Colin asked me to write the Foreword for this book, because it's high time someone took you step-by-step through this process, to simplify something that might otherwise be unnecessarily overcomplicated. Now, you have in your hands something more than a book - it's actually more like a course on formatting and designing your book." - Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and Founder, Author Marketing Experts, Inc., Adjunct Professor, NYU
Save time and hassles and invest in your own copy today!
