Name: Fiction Writers: Learn How To Create A Perfect Kindle Ebook
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Created byStephen Lean

Last updated 11/2015

English

What you'll learn

Format your Word (or similar) manuscript easily and painlessly into a beautiful Kindle ebook using free software.

Course content

9 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 45m total length

What You Will Learn3:45
Welcome to my course!

Here you will learn how to format your Word (or similar) manuscript easily and painlessly into a beautiful Kindle ebook using free software.

Please take plenty of notes and watch all the lectures in order as certain procedures are dependent on having completed the preceding lecture first. If you skip forward and miss something your ebook may well not work as it should.

Please also don't hesitate to ask me about anything you're not sure of - it's what I'm here for.
Why Listen To Me?2:13
Why listen to me?

I am a website designer, a self-published author, a copywriter and an ebook formatter. I work full-time in the world of words, HTML, javascript and style sheets.

Now, I know what you're thinking, and many of my friends have already said it: maybe I should get out more!

Since Amazon changed the publishing game completely and opened up the world of self-publishing, I have formatted both fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for a diverse range of author clients. The ebooks I format are designed to look good and work well on all ereaders.

But the whole idea of self-publishing is doing it all for yourself, so I've designed this course to show you how easy it can be to do just that. And once you have this knowledge you can confidently format every book you write from now on.

Word's "Save as web" Option - And Why You Shouldn't Use It!4:18
Word's 'Save as web' option

Learn what this is, how it works - and why you shouldn't use it!
Cleaning Up Your Manuscript The Easy Way6:17
Cleaning up your manuscript

Find out the easiest way to convert your manuscript to clean HTML
Bold, Italics And Special Characters3:43
Bold, italics & special characters

It works just like Word! How to add this formatting to your cleaned up manuscript.
Create Your Headings And Chapters11:46
Headings & chapters

Here we will add our headings and split up our book into its individual chapters.
Everything Good So Far? Run The Validator To Find Out1:12
Run the validator - 1

How to validate what we've done so far to catch any problems early - always a good idea!

Graphicality - Adding Images5:43
Add your images

Here we will import your cover image and any other images you want to use inside your book.
Clickability - Inserting Hyperlinks4:06
Hyperlinks

Send your readers to your website, or give them your email address. How to add your hyperlinks
Creating The Table Of Contents2:58
Table of contents

Here we will learn how to create the clickable table of contents so our readers can find their way around our ebook.

Downloading & Linking The Style Sheet3:53
Add the style sheet

How to download and create the style sheet, then link it to your files
Styling The Chapters3:40
Styling the chapters

How to make your chapters and their headings look like a proper book.
Styling The Title Page5:57
Title page

Your title page is important, make it look good here.
Styling The Front And Back Matter8:37
Front & back matter

Styling the legal bit at the front and the Author page, etc. Copyright and publisher information done the right way.
Styles Explained7:14
Styles explained

What they do, how they're written and constructed, and how to play around with them.
Adding The Cover Image1:29
Cover image

How to add the cover image to your epub file.

Requirements

You will need to download two FREE software programs: Sigil and Kindle Previewer.
Full instructions on how to do this is included in the course.

Description

If you are a fiction writer, author or self-publisher this course is for you!

Learn how to format your own Word (or similar) manuscript, easily and painlessly, using FREE software, into a fully-validated and functional Kindle ebook. No HTML, CSS or other 'techie' knowledge required.

Create Your Beautiful Kindle Ebook From Start To Finish With This Step By Step, Easy To Follow Tutorial For Fiction Writers

You will learn how to:

Clean up and prepare your manuscript the easy way
Format your manuscript correctly
Use the magic of style sheets
Validate your files
View and proof your ebook on various devices

These Easy To Learn Skills Will Enable You To Format Your Fiction Book With Complete Confidence

If you know nothing of HTML and other geekery, don't worry, you're in the right place, because you don't need to know any of these things.

In this course am going to take you by the hand and show you, step by easy step, the painless way to format your manuscript and ebook files properly.

You're going to learn every step you need to take to get your book formatted the right way. I'll show you where to get the FREE software you need, how to download and install it, how to use it, and how to validate your files.

Included also in the course is a downloadable style sheet which you can just copy and paste into your epub files to make your book behave as it should.

Again, don't worry, I'll show you exactly where to put the styles and how to modify them if you want to. But you don't have to, they are perfectly designed to use as they are, 'straight out of the box'.

All you then have to do is upload your files direct to Kindle's publishing platform and within 24 to 48 hours your book will be published and available on Amazon worldwide.

It will work properly and look great. And you will have done it all yourself. Isn't that what self-publishing is all about? You. In control. Earning money from day one!

This course is designed to teach writers who just want to write how easy it is to do your own formatting. I don't expect you to be a tech wizard, you shouldn't have to be, you're a writer.

However, I'm pretty sure you're going to have plenty of questions as we go along, and my promise to you is that I will respond as soon as humanly possible to any and every message you send to me.

So never be shy to fire me off a question, no matter how trivial you may think it is, that's what I'm here for.

Steve

Who this course is for:

If you are a writer, author or self-publisher this course is for you!
You will learn an easy and foolproof way to format your own manuscript into a fully-functional Epub and Kindle ebook.
No HTML, CSS or other 'techie' knowledge required.

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Introduction To The Course2 lectures • 6min

Download Your FREE Software2 lectures • 7min

Formatting Your Manuscript5 lectures • 27min

Adding Images & Hyperlinks3 lectures • 13min

The Magic Of CSS - Styling Your Manuscript6 lectures • 31min

A Final Check That Everything's Ready2 lectures • 8min

Creating Your Mobi File For Kindle1 lecture • 7min

Uploading Your Mobi File To Amazon1 lecture • 5min

It's A Wrap!1 lecture • 1min

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