What a great weekend. Free writing workshops in Christchurch thanks to the New Zealand Society of Authors and Copyright Licensing Limited.
I presented a session on how to self-publish a Kindle novel on Amazon.com which was very well received. I promised to make the details available and here they are. I made a PDF document with the main part of the presentation and some of the useful resources I talked about. You should be able to download it by clicking the following link:
How to Self-Publish a Kindle Novel.pdf
I also promised to make the Word document template that I used for the book available. You can download it by clicking the following link:
CreateSpace 5 inch by 8 inch template
You might have some fun with the page numbers in this template. The blank pages need to be totally blank (no page numbers), the About the Author section at the end does not require page numbers either. If you find these start to appear check the properties of the sections. This is how I sorted it out. The document uses different sections to handle the page numbering for the front matter, main text and appendices.
If you want to read Coding Isis and have a Kobo, Sony Reader, Nook, or one of many other readers, you can find out how to buy the book and convert it in this blog post: http://davidroys.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/how-to-read-kindle-book-on-different.html
It was great to meet all of you and thanks to the event organisers for making it such an enjoyable weekend.
