Self-Publish for $100 or Less: Step-by-Step Guide to Format Your Book and E-Book, Get a Cover and ISBN, and Publish to Sell

by Amy Deardon

CAN YOU REALLY PUBLISH YOUR E-BOOK AND PRINT BOOK YOURSELF FOR $100 -- OR LESS? Congratulations! You've finished your manuscript and are ready to self-publish your e-book and print book for sale on Amazon. NOW WHAT? This book uses a step-by-step approach with screenshots to walk you through formatting your e-book and print book. Inside its pages, you'll learn how * Flawlessly format your e-book and print book using Microsoft®Word and free, open-source applications. * Dress up your e-book and print book with fancy symbols and royalty-free images. * Hyperlink your e-book like a pro to create footnotes and a clickable table of contents. * Beautify your print book with fancy fonts, dropped caps, and professional layout. * Find a spectacular book cover for $100 -- or less. * Get a free ISBN and barcode. * Choose a printer and distributor for your e-book and print book. * Convert your files for e-book and print book to industry-standard formats ready to load onto Amazon KDP or Ingram Spark. * Refer to multiple screen shots and step-by-step instructions that clarify exactly how you can do everything without a hitch. Self-publishing offers exciting opportunities in today's market. Get this book today and self-publish your own e-book and print book tomorrow! Also see Book 2 of this "How to Happily Self-Publish" Special Effects for Your Use HTML Templates Without Knowing HTML to Professionally Format Your E-Book

198 pages, Paperback

Published March 25, 2020

About the author

"I’m married with two children. In my life B.C. (before children) I was a Ph.D. scientist under a different name who did bench research. I also love writing and story structure.

I quit work to stay home for raising our kids, and figured I finally had the time to write a novel. While writing, I was surprised at how difficult it was to get the words down because I’d never suffered from nonfiction writer’s block. It wasn’t laziness, but a pervasive frustration that, while my writing was “good,” the story itself wasn’t working.

After finishing my novel (through sheer grit) I decided to scientifically study story structure so my next novel wouldn’t be so difficult. Along this side road I was amazed at how deep and consistent was story structure, and began coaching students to help them avoid the frustration I’d felt, and also to test and perfect my algorithm."

http://amydeardon.com/bio/

Reviews

[Angel Ackerman · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have very mixed feelings about this book. It's about five years old at this point and a lot of the advice is out-of-date. It should be called "how to format your book with Microsoft Word on a PC." She gives very good instructions and background, but she only provides formatting info and very minimal instructions on book covers, photographs, ISBNS, etc. She uses a lot of screen shots that aren't legible once printed, though with her clear instructions they aren't really needed.

Her use of advice like to convert color photos to black-and-white using Photoshop seems completely not useful to someone looking to publish for under $100-- since Adobe products require a subscription.

If taken as instructions, to be used because you were curious or just insist on doing things this way yourself, there is nothing wrong with the advice. But she glosses over a lot of important issues. If you truly don't want to spend money-- then she's telling you to do all the work yourself, use royalty free images and Canva, not to copyright, don't buy your own ISBNs...

And the $100 also assumes the book is 100% print ready. No discussion of how to make sure a manuscript is ready for print. So I just thing that some of this information is dangerous. It could mislead people into thinking this is ALL they have to do to have success in writing.

But I applaud Amy for making sure people can access this knowledge.

But if you're like me and use an Apple computer and don't have a subscription to Microsoft Word, her advice won't work.

And it might be time to embrace Google workspace as a more free avenue.