Can Vellum make YOUR publishing life easier?The Vellum book formatting program is one of the front-runners in the self-publisher world today, and with good reason. Vellum takes on the big-publisher industry standards and implements them for the everyday user. It challenges the stigma that "ebooks always break and they have to be ugly" and gives you the chance to give your readers a beautiful, unbreakable ebook experience.Is Vellum the tool for you? This book shows you?- All the steps in a start-to-finish format- Best practices for ebook and print layouts- How to set up beautiful custom print book designs while keeping ebook delivery costs low- Tips for how PC users can access this Mac-based appWith two all-new chapters in this edition, setting up print page backgrounds plus common troubleshooting questions, this book will help demystify Vellum and set you up for success.

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the roller-coaster of the creative journey. Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for validation, perfectionism, writer's block, comparisonitis, overwhelm, and much more. This book offers a survival strategy and ways to deal with them all.

Hoping to save his family, one man enters his realm's most glorious tournament and finds himself in the middle of a political chess game, unthinkable bloodshed, and an unexpected romance with a woman he's not supposed to want.

When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. But when her grandparents place an ad in the local newspaper looking for a typist to help Tessa continue writing and blogging, an unlikely answer knocks at their door: Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile...and no legs. Knowing how angry and afraid Tessa is feeling, Weston thinks he can help her. But he has one condition -- no one can tell Tessa about his disability. And because she can't see him, she treats him with contempt: screaming at him to get out of her house and never come back. But for Weston, it's the most amazing feeling: to be treated like a normal person, not just a sob story. So he comes back. Again and again and again. Tessa spurns Weston's "obnoxious optimism", convinced that he has no idea what she's going through. But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. As Tessa grows closer to Weston, she finds it harder and harder to imagine life without him -- and Weston can't imagine life without her. But he still hasn't told her the truth, and when Tessa's sight returns he'll have to make the hardest decision of his life: vanish from Tessa's world...or overcome his fear of being seen. 100 Days of Sunlight is a poignant and heartfelt novel by author Abbie Emmons. If you like sweet contemporary romance and strong family themes then you'll love this touching story of hope, healing, and getting back up when life knocks you down.

Are You Tired of Pulling Your Hair Out Trying to Format Your Book in Word? You can relax. You now have available everything you need to format a book in Word - easily and hassle-free. In How to Format Your Book in Word, you are taken from book formatting basics through the steps to format your ebooks and paper book, all the way to upload your book files online. No doubt about it, Word has hundreds of features and tools, but you don't need ALL of them when formatting a book. The author focuses only on the tools you need to format your book. Therefore you don't waste time. Book formatting need not be a nightmare anymore. In this book you have all the detailed steps (with over 300 screenshots & images) to enable you to: Format your book for Kindle Format your book for Smashwords, and Format your book for CreateSpace. Just some of the items that are covered... 1 Book Formatting Basics Book Design Examples Book Structure Front Matter Body Matter Back Matter 2 Format Your Kindle Ebook Formatting Your Word Manuscript File for Kindle Style Ideas for the Kindle Ebook Structure 3 Format Your Smashwords Ebook Prepare Your Word File Paragraph Style Style Formatting Links Table of Contents (ToC) and Navigation Create a linked Table of Contents (ToC) Adding Bookmarks Linking to Bookmarks 4 Designing Your Hard Copy Book Book Design Basics Book Design Checklist Book Design Elements Pagination, Page and Section Breaks Headings, Headers & Footers Set Heading Style Tables & Columns d104 Boxes Inserting Cross-references Inserting a Table of Contents Footnote, Index & Bibliography 5 Uploading and Publishing Your Book Online Why Self-Publishing Online Makes Sense Self-Publish Your Kindle Ebook Self-Publish at Smashwords Self-Publishing Your Book to CreateSpace ...and a LOT more. "This book is a goldmine for anyone trying to learn how to format their own books. It's filled with step-by-step instructions, pictures, and a hyper-detailed process for designing professional looking books. Use it to save countless hours of frustration and hair-pulling." - Derek Murphy, Creativeindie "I was so pleased when Colin asked me to write the Foreword for this book, because it's high time someone took you step-by-step through this process, to simplify something that might otherwise be unnecessarily overcomplicated. Now, you have in your hands something more than a book - it's actually more like a course on formatting and designing your book." - Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and Founder, Author Marketing Experts, Inc., Adjunct Professor, NYU Save time and hassles and invest in your own copy today!

Genre: Nonfiction (How To) Make your writing dreams become achievable goals. Just finished writing your book? Have no idea what to do next? This book will guide you through the steps to take your manuscript from rough draft to published in the online stores of your choice while helping you avoid some of the many pitfalls. Keywords: indie publishing, self publishing books, how to publish your book.