Finally, the collection is an
inch away from publishing. I took it through the nuclear wipe again yesterday,
cut n pasted it through Notepad and back again, and all the formatting I'd done
with the hard returns was wiped and I had to do them again! Still, it didn't
take long, and it's always a good thing to keep sweeping over to catch any
missing punctuation or typos (not that there should be any of them left) but I
did catch several words that had reverted to the American spelling – ize words.
I worked out how to do the
paragraph with 'after' spaces which suits poetry stanzas perfectly (advice
discovered in Smashwords free Style guide). Ahhh. It really is amazing
what you can learn with time in between readings and a few practises thrown
into the mix…makes me want to publish more books!
Working on the biog bits now
and descriptions of the book with quick overview of the poems. I don't know
what kind of stuff will be needed in the publishing process but I want to be
ready so it can go quickly. If my manuscript is good enough for Smashwords Premium Catalog, it will be passed on to Kobo and Kindle and other
booksellers, so I'm going to try that first; it seems easier.
I just have to spend a little
time making sure the poems are the best they can be and that the order I've
chosen is the right one and then it'll be off, into the big wild world.
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