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BURNING IN EDITING HELL!
Having No Guidance when I began writing my book, I dove into Google Docs and ended up with over 800 pages, with hundreds of Pictures throughout the manuscript. (It is now split into 2 books and I am working with the first.) But...as I went along and Learned more, I realized that I had created a Monster, because Now I have Converted it into several other formats in order to FIX The Mistakes! And I have Failed! I tried PDF and that was useless. Made it into a DOCX file and tried to use Autocrit...then a ODT file and Reedsy is just a Mess! Everything "looks" okay on Google Docs, but when it is saved as anything else it is Horrible and I Can't Fix it in Any format! Now what?!
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@Robert Cormican I LOVE this perspective!
Launch Strategy - Does this sound right?
Hello Friends, My release date is April 25, but with so many unexpected things that have come up, I lost sight of my exact strategy. Please give me some feedback on the points below. Here is my plan for now. 1. I will set a release date on Ingram, Amazon for end of April. It will be available on my website too through Lulu. 2. I plan to make it available for a 50% discount for the first month to motivate people to buy it and to ask for reviews. I have already updated my website, gotten a few proofs of the book in print and ebook to see if I have to make corrections, reinvigorated my social media, and have done some speaking engagements to tease the book release. I’m finding the pre-sale strategy confusing at the moment because I don’t like that you can’t do one through Amazon for print. Thanks so much in advance for any thoughts that you can share 🙏🏽
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Seconding this! If you did want to do a print preorder, you absolutely could—but you'd usually do it through IS (IngramSpark) and would need to account for their slower timelines.
Help on Book Cover concepts
Can you vote on your favorite and offer any comments or ideas you might have a. Dark Blue with watermark b. Dark Blue with arrow c. Black and Yellow d. Mainly white with Newtons cradle
Help on Book Cover concepts
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I'm team D as well! I notice that your subtitle is pretty small in all of the different options, though. It's often best practice to aim to have your subtitle readable in thumbnail size! The thumbnail for D is cut off for me in your post, but I'm guessing it's a tiny bit small for that right now. I think upping its size could also bring some nice balance to your cover!
Publish and then unpublish to get the live URL?
Hi! Here's the thing. All my marketing materials include a QR code that will point back to my amazon book's page to leave a review. However, I don't have the url because the book release will happen on April 28th. Which means I can't prepare the marketing materials ahead of time. Is there a way to get the url before I publish my book to update all my marketing materials? I can't publish and unpublish since it would hurt my launch date, right? GPT, and Perplexity aren't helping. I need the experts!
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@Alícia Rius You shouldn't need a dynamic QR code! That would solve the problem too, but there are absolutely other options. 😊 The best option for you would depend on your website host and level of comfort with different tech, but the easiest options if you want an outside tool would be to either use a redirect plugin like Redirection (https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) or a tool like Pretty Links (http://prettylinks.com/) that allows you to create a single link you can use anywhere and update as needed. Pretty Links may require a paid plan to access that feature (I'm not sure—I haven't used it in a few years), but there are definitely cheap and free alternatives out there with similar functionality. All that said, also be aware that if you plan to put your book up for preorder, you'll get your link shortly after setting up the preorder! You can create and insert the QR code at that time. That's probably the easiest option!
#1 on Kindle (#3 print)
Woohooo!!!! Today is launch day, and I think this is what we all hope for! Anyone want to prep me for the launch hangover that’s coming!!!! Thank you so much to the Book Launchers team for your stellar advice leading up to this!
#1 on Kindle (#3 print)
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Congratulations!!
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