January 27, 2012
From Amanda: How to Format Your Manuscript for Submission and Kindle Upload
by Chip MacGregor
Amanda Luedeke is a literary agent with MacGregor Literary. You can follow her on Twitter @amandaluedeke or join her Facebook group to stay current with her wheelings and dealings as an agent.
First, I'd like to say I'm sorry for missing my post yesterday. I had some personal things come up and just didn't get around to it. So, we're going to take a slight detour this week, since I know there are a number of people who tune in specifically on Thursdays to hear about building author platform. And, well, we don't want them missing the next installment, now, do we?!
So for today, I'd like to share links to a batch of really helpful tutorial videos my author, the fabulous Jill Williamson, put together. They cover everything you need to know to format your manuscript for submission.
In addition to this, Jill put together a series of videos for formatting your manuscript for upload on Amazon as a Kindle ebook.
They're short and to the point…excellent references for anyone getting ready to do something with that polished, perfected manuscript.
Do you know of any tutorials to add to this list? Tell us about them!
And tune in next Thursday when we get back to our discussion on building platforms…the topic? Platform-building blogging. See you next week!
8 Comments
Great post. Thanks! Formatting can be a real pain. I had to have a friend do it for my for my two books. I’ll Tweet this post as a lot of people can beneft from this.
These are really helpful, but sometimes it sounds like she has gum or something in her mouth…? Kind of distracting. But I really appreciate the clear and to-the-point info provided in the videos.
Thanks so much, Amanda! I appreciate this so much. May save the freelance editor some work, too, and maybe I will even figure out all the little steps to get this next MS cleaned up for my agent. Blessings!
Great information.
Thanks so much for this! Still plodding through them, but already found a wealth of information.
The Kindle one was a three part one. I forgot. Oops. Here is the title and link for that one:
Uploading Your Novel to Amazon Digital Text Platform for
Kindle–PART 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDhcqCapW50
Keep in mind, it’s not called the Amazon Digital Platform anymore. But it works the same way.
Jill
Wow. Great stuff here. Thank you!
Hey, this is great as I am getting ready to submit my manuscript next week!! Thanks so much, Amanda. Great tutorials. Easy to follow.