![]() ![]() If you are going to roll the dice with a template created cover, you will chose the other option to "create a new design". Okay, so back to the tutorial - If you have your cover image already, you will choose the "use an existing file" option and browse for that file on your computer. Yes, it's an upfront cost, but it is the ONE upfront cost that will bring you the most return on your money! I promise. That is a difference that should not be ignored! If you have no graphic design experience or artistic/photo manipulation skills, then I suggest you seek out a cover designer. She went from only a handful of sales to being able to pay her bills. After changing a friend's template cover to a more professional looking one, her books sold better by leaps and bounds. Myself and some other authors did a lot of experimenting with cover design and important it was early on. This isn't a dig at people who use templates to produce covers. People can spot amateur covers a mile away, and very often avoid them. I HIGHLY encourage you to get PROFESSIONAL help with your covers. I have the files for my book covers ready prior to getting to this step. I produce my own covers using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. Once you've decided on what you need, go ahead and click that "next" button. PDFs are great to have too for different purposes. The epub file format is used by most other places that sell ebooks. The mobi file format is used by Amazon for Kindle. Generally speaking, I only need to choose epub and mobi. Use Template - we're going to ignore this for now, as it isn't important to what I'm showing you in this tutorial.Įbook Formats - You can leave all of these checked if you're unsure of which formats you will need. ![]() You can absolutely send it there if you prefer. Now, when you're used to using it, some people like to save each book file to a folder they created for that specific book or series. That way you can find all of your Jutoh files in one place, easily enough. ![]() It creates a Jutoh Document folder in your "Documents" on your computer. Your Project Location - this is simply telling Jutoh where you want to save the file. These will all be a different type of file. Even if you only used your book title for your manuscript word doc name, it won't matter. Your project name - should probable contain your book title. It looks intimidating at first, but it's not. This step produced another box for you to fill out. This tutorial is based solely on what I do for my books. That is for you to decide what you are most comfortable with. Again, this post isn't me telling which way to go. I use both PC and MAC and I'm still solidly an MS Word/Jutoh user when it comes to formatting. Some people use Scrivner or Vellum (for Mac users). Why? It just happened to be one of the first ones I tried, and got really familiar with early on in my career, and you know the old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". ![]() You will realize why some of the changes were made as we go through.Īgain, for the purposes of this tutorial, I use a conversion program called Jutoh. Now, we're going to discuss turning that paperback manuscript into an electronic book file. If you have attempted this, maybe you played around with settings and managed to get your template perfectly fine-tuned for what you need. It was mostly about how to set the basic template for a paperback book. Yesterday I posted about how to get started with formatting your book. ![]()
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