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"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. Chapter 1 offers the basic structure of paper books. This serves as a foundation for any aspiring writer to understand how a book is structured. Chapters 2 to 4 offer the detailed steps to format your ebook for Kindle and Smashwords, plus how to design your paper book for KDP Print. These chapters will save you hours of frustration and hassles. This book not only covers the formatting and design of a book, but Chapter 5 also presents the steps for uploading your book files to the three big online publishers: Kindle Direct Publishing, Smashwords, and KDP Print. Again, saving you many hours. This is not a book for the lazy; this is a book for the person who has a genuine urge and desire to format their own book and become a self-published author. It does take time to format your book to a professional standard. The good news is you have everything you need in these pages. ""I'm serious, this is a great book and in all my years in self-publishing, I've learned so much about formatting and designing a book in Word."" - Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO Author Marketing Experts, Inc. and Adjunct Professor NYU"

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Every aspiring writer who wants to self-publish their book will find this volume a gold mine of steps, tricks, and techniques for the formatting of ebooks and paper books. And even if you don't plan to do your own book formatting, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had by reading this book. - Penny Sansevieri, CEO and Founder, Author Marketing Experts, Inc. 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 By providing detailed, specific instructions and screenshots that eliminate questions and confusion, Colin Dunbar has given self-publishing authors the definitive guide to preparing their Word manuscript for publication. I'm recommending this book to any author who says 'How do I . . .?' for any aspect of file preparation and uploading. This book is a gem. - Sandra Beckwith, book marketing instructor and coach, BuildBookBuzz.com The author appears to have a passion for helping people succeed in a field in which he clearly has expert knowledge. The book is written in an informal conversational tone with many easy to follow detailed instructions, examples and screenshots. - Amazon reviewer The steps for all the required actions are very clearly explained, as well the rational for doing them. Colin Dunbar is gifted at simplifying technical processes -- a real treasure for those of us who are more inclined toward the creative side of life. - Amazon reviewer

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COLIN DUNBAR is an expert technical writer with 39+ years' experience, as well as an indie author with five self-published books to his name, and more to come. After following the regular career path, he started his own corporation and ran it for five years, after which he decided to sell. In 1990/91 he wrote the draft of his first book, Profile of the Technical Writing Profession, and tried publishing it the traditional route. Due to a lack in demand for this type of book, according to the literary agent, it did not see the light of day. In 2004 Colin self-published his book, Invest In Yourself, and soon after he started an online business, running his website and self-publishing his second book, Get What You Want. As he gained experience, in 2007 he accepted a virtual contractor position with SiteSell, Inc. (Canadian based company). His responsibilities in this position included the writing of material for use on SiteSell's sites, as well as in their online publications. He was also responsible for proofreading and doing online research. For the years 2007 to 2014, Colin offered an e-cover design service (designing a total of 198 e-covers). From 2009 to 2014, he also offered a book design service (which included copyediting, proofreading, etc.), completing 99 book and ebook designs. All services were offered online via his personal website, www.ColinDunbar.com. In 2011, he launched a self-publishing website, and in 2014, due to time constraints, closed it down to focus all his attention on writing his series of books.

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