I asked Kindle how I get the changes out to the earlier buyers. So, nearly three months after the book was first released, it has been updated, the cover has been changed, but there are existing buyers out there who will think I am still the rankest of amateurs. One unexpected bonus is that it creates the book exactly as it will be, in a format I can copy to my kindle. I recently bought Jutoh EBook Converter and it is phenomenal. Formatting will change and puzzled readers will find oddities, split paragraphs, centred text thrown all to blazes, and will think you are the idiot. Purchase jutoh software#They tinker with their software as often we tinker with our books and two or three changes down the line, your book will become peculiar. (Go read it in the sample on Amazon, it’s a good story.) (viewBook.at/B00AVQDKXC)ĭon’t rely on Kindle’s own HTML version of your Word document when you upload. They do now, because it is added in at the beginning. I genuinely thought everyone in the world knew the old purple hat story. Just one example, I’d referred in my book to ‘the old purple hat story’. Purchase jutoh professional#The ideal is to get it read by a professional pre-edit reviewer, or critiquer, but it took me two months to find one whose style I liked, and in the meantime I had really useful feedback from the friends who, bless them, had bought the book. Now it has been corrected to what I like and even she thinks it looks better. My artist was and is very good, and uncanny at picking things out of my mind, but we don’t agree on lettering. (There are some hard-learned editing tips in the next blog)ĭo not get wildly excited by your first book cover and accept it if you have the single tiniest reservation. The brain simply self-corrects familiar work. I copy-edit for others and I genuinely believed I could do it for myself and I was wrong. Things I have learnt from this include, first and foremost, do not rely on self-editing. Some have pointed out errors quite tartly and, oh dear, most have said nothing at all. Some of the people who have bought my book have said really nice things (some were people I don’t even know). I had set my heart on publishing for the first time on 1 st January and publish I did. Copy-editors, even the best, are human and won’t pick up everything but after all these checks, you should have something clean enough to leave the most critical of your readers with only a short list.Įxperience may be cheap at any price but grab a bargain, learn from the mistakes of others instead. Sometimes the copy-editor misunderstood the context, in which case you should probably clarify it for the eventual reader, too.
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