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Its Official, My First Book is on Kindle

Today was a good day. I got my completed kindle cover today, the quality was excellent and im very pleased. I had a little trouble finding the proper format that kindle requires, JPEG & TIFF, in the file they sent me but i shot them an email and they got me sorted out. With that being done my cover was checked off the list. If your interested in who i had make my kindle cover just send me a message and i can let you know, and no it wasn’t fiverr.

Secondly i went to fiverr and got my Microsoft word file formatted for kindle. This didn’t take that long and i got it back today. I was able to open my book with Amazon Kindle for PC and it looked perfect. Well almost perfect, after reading it again i noticed a spelling error so that sucks and to get it fixed I’ll have to order another gig. I’m done spending money, at this point we will see if the book is able to bring in any sales and if so how many.

Lastly i have now gone thru the process of adding my book and its cover to kindle and its in review. I believe I’ve priced it right but i’m sure the market will determine that in the future.

I’ll be updating my progress in future posts and if things go well i will repeat the exact same process for future books. If you recall i started this journey on January 20th and today is February the 9th. It took about 21 days from start to finish to get my first book on kindle. I’m sure the next will be done much faster. As usual you can see the steps i followed below only now I’ve added the different costs, also they are all in green because i have completed all of the steps. In total i spent $235 to get this book published, hopefully i’ll get that back in spades.  If you have any questions on the process i went thru don’t hesitate to contact me above.

  • Write outline for book
  • Place ad on freelancing site and screen authors
  • Pick author that impresses me (Paid $190)
  • give author my books outline
  • once book is turned in read it and edit as needed
  • Order book cover for kindle (Paid $30)
  • have book formatted for kindle (Paid $15)
  • Place book on Kindle