1. Merry Banerji w/a Meredith Bond merry@meredithbond.com www.meredithbond.com

2. Day Four:

3. CreateSpace Know what size you want your book to be. Standard size for a trade paperback is 5x8. That is the smallest size CreateSpace can make. Download the template for the size book you want. https://www.createspace.com/en/community/docs/DO C-1323 Copy your book into the template. Be sure to copy your copyright information.

4. Templates This is the basic template. This is the formatted template Your work, although done in Word is saved as a PDF.

5. Finishing Touches

6. Your cover Download the correct size book cover template from CreateSpace. https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/Artwork.do https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/Artwork.do This, too, needs to be saved as a PDF (Bullzip PDF printer (freeware): http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

7. Your cover

8. Publishing ISBN options Upload interior. Automated print check Interior reviewer Upload your cover art Choose where you want the book sold. Decide on the price. Enter bank info so you can get paid.

9. Publishing Put in all descriptive information – your blurb, author bio BISAC code http://www.bisg.org/what-we- do-0-136-bisac-subject- headings-list-major- subjects.php http://www.bisg.org/what-we- do-0-136-bisac-subject- headings-list-major- subjects.php

10. Last, but… Order a proof Check it THOROUGHLY Approve it/make changes & order another

11. Blogs to read General publishing blogs: http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/ http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/ http://howpublishingreallyworks.com http://rejecter.blogspot.com/ http://slushpilehell.tumblr.com/ http://accrispin.blogspot.com/ (writer beware blog)http://accrispin.blogspot.com/ http://www.writersdigest.com/editor- blogs/there-are-no-ruleshttp://www.writersdigest.com/editor- blogs/there-are-no-rules

12. More Blogs Self-publishing blogs: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/ http://write2publish.blogspot.com/ http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/ Writing blogs: http://edittorrent.blogspot.com/ http://procrastinatingwritersblog.com/

13. More Blogs Queryshark: reads and comments on query letters (blog) http://queryshark.blogspot.com/http://queryshark.blogspot.com/ http://querytracker.net/ Writer’s Digest http://www.writersdigest.com/ Poets and Writers Mag http://www.pw.org/http://www.pw.org/ http://writeordie.drwicked.com/

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