How to Preview Your Kindle eBook #pubtips
PREVIEWING YOUR KINDLE eBOOK
This is a thorough guide to help you preview your Kindle eBook.Previewing is best done in several stages.
Proofreading the text
Initial preview for obvious issues
Check the images
Check any drop caps
Click every hyperlink (including the table of contents and footnotes)
Check any tables
Scan the entire eBook for formatting issues
Change the background color
Adjust font size, typeface, line spacing, and device margins
Adjust the orientation between portrait and landscape and scan several pages (or the whole eBook)
Test the eBook out on various devices and apps
Scan the eBook one last time before publishing
Try to preview the Look Inside (see the last section of this article)
Download the free sample after publishing
Check the Look Inside once it becomes available
Be your own first customer and scan the entire book
If you publish any revisions, ask KDP to push the updated book onto your device, and check the revision
PREVIEWING YOUR KINDLE eBOOK
This is a thorough guide to help you preview your Kindle eBook.
Previewing is best done in several stages.
- Proofreading the text
- Initial preview for obvious issues
- Check the images
- Check any drop caps
- Click every hyperlink (including the table of contents and footnotes)
- Check any tables
- Scan the entire eBook for formatting issues
- Change the background color
- Adjust font size, typeface, line spacing, and device margins
- Adjust the orientation between portrait and landscape and scan several pages (or the whole eBook)
- Test the eBook out on various devices and apps
- Scan the eBook one last time before publishing
- Try to preview the Look Inside (see the last section of this article)
- Download the free sample after publishing
- Check the Look Inside once it becomes available
- Be your own first customer and scan the entire book
- If you publish any revisions, ask KDP to push the…
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The Dead Game
The Dead Game by Susanne Leist
My review follows the book blurb found on Amazon.
“Linda Bennett leaves New York for the slower-paced lifestyle of Oasis, Florida. She opens a bookstore and makes new friends. Life is simple that is until the dead body washes up onshore. She is horrified to learn that dead bodies and disappearing tourists are typical for this small town. Rumors abound of secret parties held by the original residents in their secluded mansions. Once night falls, the tourist-friendly community becomes a haven for evil and dark shadows. However, this is only the beginning.
Linda and her group receive an unsigned invitation to a party at End House, the deserted house in the forest behind the town, a mansion with a violent history. They are pursued through revolving rooms and dangerous traps, barely escaping with their lives, leaving two of their friends trapped inside.
It is up to Linda and her friends to search out The Dead and find the evil one controlling their once peaceful community. Can they trust the Sheriff and his best friend, Todd? THE DEAD GAME has begun.”
*****
Normally I don’t read books with vampires, nevertheless I read this one. I bought as it was free in Kindle and I kept seeing it posted on Twitter. Leist has great grammar and it is a fast-paced paranormal thriller. The entire town of Oasis was strange, and then it got stranger! Twists and turns abound with strange mysterious events happening. Good versus evil (vampires) and I must say I felt a bone chilling cold as I read. There is a vast number of characters, and some I just couldn’t connect with – lacking in this book. I think some editing on those characters would make this book even better! Regardless, FIVE solid stars!
Line Editing: What Is It? By Jami Gold
What Is Line Editing and What Should Line Editors Do? by Jami Gold https://jamigold.com/2018/03/what-is-line-editing-and-what-should-line-editors-do/
Last month, when I put together the Master Lists of writing craft skills to provide insights for self-editing and/or finding editors, I created a list for each phase of editing:
- content/developmental editing (fix story and character-level issues)
- line editing (fix scene and paragraph-level issues)
- copy editing (fix sentence, word, and grammar-level issues)
As I mentioned in the Line Editing post, in my experience, line editing is the hardest type of editing to nail down. We can say that line editing is about how we write scenes and paragraphs, but what does that mean?
Let’s take a closer look at what line editing encompasses…
Why Is Line Editing Hard to Define?
While developmental editing is about the story and characters and copy editing is about grammar rules and sentence-level issues, line editing skills are all about…
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7 Ways to Direct Traffic from Facebook To Your Blog
This is a guest post by Kate Thora. Kate is a Senior Content Specialist for BizSet.com – an online database of company information. In her free time, she loves to catch up with the newest trends on her favorite industry blogs.
7 Ways to Direct Traffic from Facebook To Your Blog
Everyone talks about the benefits of social media marketing. And, without doubt, it’s really important to any enterprise. But unless you’re harnessing your social media pages to meet your ultimate objectives, you’re wasting a lot of time and energy posting on them.
Nevertheless, if your aim is to direct traffic to your blog, there are plenty of ways to achieve this. Here we look at one of the most popular social media platforms, Facebook, and discuss seven ways to direct traffic from Facebook to your blog.
1. Craft Your Post Taglines
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You’ve probably spent a fair amount of…
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2 New Agents Seeking Kidlit, YA, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Memoir and more…
9 Types of Pitches to Use When Promoting Your Book…
By Joan Stewart 
on The Book Designer:
If you’re like most authors, the long process of writing and publishing your book feels like you’ve crossed the finish line after running a marathon.
But unlike a road race, you’re not done.
The success of your book depends on approaching people, companies and groups and asking for their help to publicize, promote and sell it.
This is called pitching.
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The Secret Women of The American Civil War – To Make America Great!
The Secret Women of The American Civil War – To Make America Great!
Women on both sides of the American Civil War took on ‘Secret Identities’ and changed their Appearances to Fight alongside male soldiers in America’s Bloodiest Battles for what it was ‘Worth’.
Taking on these identities gave these ‘countless’ women freedom they usually would never enjoy. Women’s Suffrage, still well over fifty years away, these women could manage a male monthly income with freedom only a male soldier could enjoy. These identities these women took on, kept up long after the war was over, and some even kept their male identities until the day they died and still made impacts to their very cause.
One strong motivation for this new male soldier role-play was brand new Adventures never allowed enjoyed before, although primarily their deep personal reasons were simply money they never experienced.
Average soldier income was…
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CARRIAGES AND CASTILE
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9 Tips For Using Fiction Techniques When Writing Memoir…
By Michael Mohr 
on The Creative Penn:
When Angels Fly 