So, recently I published my first ever children’s book, a picture book for small children about growing a vegetable garden. It’s full color all the way to the edges, available in softcover through Amazon, and indie published. It’s called Our Summer Garden and it’s available here if you want it.
Want to know how I made it? I made a video about the steps involved in case you want to create and sell your own picture book! here it is:
Since I’ve been keeping up on all the news, happenings, and whatnot going on in the publishing industry, I’ve decided to weigh in on a few things.
The first of these things is my firm belief that anyone who wants to can be a writer. It’s not some exclusive club where if you aren’t born with The Writing Talent, you can’t get in. Writing can be taught and it can be learned.
You can be a writer if you want to be one. It’s that simple. Heck, I did it. I even did a video explaining my thoughts on the matter. So jump on in, the water is fine!
Yours,
Stephanie Void
Michael Moorcock, fantasy genius, talks about how he is able to write a book in 3 days. I should try this, and you should too, if you are a writer. Some of these tips are simply brilliant.
http://www.ghostwoods.com/2010/05/how-to-write-a-book-in-three-days-1210/
I purchased Scrivener because my trial version ran out.
Thanks to all the YouTube help videos, I was able to learn the basic stuff pretty quickly. It took me a very short time to import my novel from Word into Scrivener and divide it up into chapters. Changing up fonts and doing formatting was also easy. The interface is nice to use.
Then I tried to compile my book (Halfway) into a .mobi for Amazon. It compiled the text just fine, but it took me four tries of messing with the compile setting to get it to compile the table of contents properly.
Part 2
This is my second post about using Scrivener software, which is designed to help writers e-publish. I recently purchased the full version.
I ended up needing the technological expertise of D., who is about a thousand times more tech-savvy than I am, to finish up Halfway. He figured out how to import an image for the cover (you have to add it to the project first) and fix a few formatting errors. Now I have a nice shiny new book to submit to Amazon and B&N very soon.
So, all in all, I am quite satisfied with Scrivener and will continue using it.
Yours,
Stephanie Void