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I've been self-publishing for over eleven years now. 😲 For most of that time, most of my books have been exclusive to Amazon, first as ebooks, and then as paperbacks too. I did try one or two books on Nook, but never seemed to sell much and, frankly, couldn't be bothered to put in the amount of work necessary to publish across the board, even with the help of Draft2Digital. But this year, I decided to give it a go. And it has been just as much hard graft as I feared. Although I don't suppose I'm telling most of you anything you don't already know. Sorry, Grandma. Sorry, Grandad.  D2D ebooks aren't too bad. After some experimentation and the usual hiccups, I find that transforming a book already published as a ebook with Amazon is fairly straightforward. You make the whole book a long, uninterrupted stream of text, except for chapter ends, where you insert nothing more fancy than a page-break. Draft2Digital advise you to use Word's 'Heading 1' for a...

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Song-World-Sequence/dp/099282043X/ I've been pinning.  Not dress-making. I'm using Pinterest to publicise my books. The brothers put me on to it. They're artists and they love Pinterest because it's an unending scroll of images, good, bad and indifferent. Some are merely shots of the work-tops, toasters and coffee machines someone is hoping to put into their new kitchen. But others are of beautiful original artwork or hand-made jewellery -- or architecture, herbs, churches, cars, sculpture. Whatever interests someone. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1530897262 Other pages are mood or research boards, where people have 'pinned' images with links to the sites they came from, so they have all their research handily gathered in one place. The Pinterest metaphor is of a large cork-board to which you pin notes and images that you find inspiring, or as a memory aide. The 'board' is much the same as a 'folder' on a c...