I just published my first book of short stories on Kindle Select this week. I really messed up. First, when I used the previewer, it appeared to be fine on all devices. However, when I to the actual book, the formatting was a royal mess. I pulled it down and did it again. Actually my first mistake was paying someone from fiverr to format the book for me - she/they had no idea what they were doing even though they claimed to have done this many times. It took six weeks to get the product I did, even then I was not satisfied, but was tired of dealing with them. My second mistake was forgetting to research the title - a million books with titles similar to mine. I had already researched all the other titles I'm using, but this one slipped by me.
I had tried for months to format for Kindle and was not able to get it right. I read everything I could find and it never made sense. I write, I'm not a computer guru. I was completely lost. Since I have another book of short stories almost ready to publish, a novel almost done and two more in the works, I really wanted to get this one done. At my age, it's now or never.
Thanks for reading my tale of woe. Good luck to each and every one of you. What's the writer's equivalent to 'break a leg'? Whatever it is, hope y'all do!
