Creating Print On Demand Interiors and Covers Using Scribus Part 2

I have taken a few weeks to document all the steps required to use Scribus to layout the interior and cover for Print on Demand (POD) PDF files and thought about publishing it.

I decided to first publish on this blog, because I will hopefully get good feedback on missed steps or other suggestions from others who are also preparing their stories for POD publication or creating bookmarks or whatever.

If I work on approximately 5 pages each blog, it will take 8 blog posts or more  to get it all up.

If you missed Part 1 read it first.

Part 2

CreateSpace Requirements

Creating Print On Demand Interiors and Covers Using Scribus Part 1

I have taken a few weeks to document all the steps required to use Scribus to layout the interior and cover for Print on Demand (POD) PDF files and thought about publishing it.

I decided to first publish on this blog, because I will hopefully get good feedback on missed steps or other suggestions from others who are also preparing their stories for POD publication or creating bookmarks or whatever.

If I work on approximately 5 pages each blog, it will take 8 blog or more blog posts to get it all up.

Part 1

What is Scribus?

Update

I have now completed another course with Dean Wesley Smith, called Genre Structure.

I would recommend this six week course to any writer looking to write fiction in more than one genre. In fact, I would recommend this course to any fiction writer at whatever stage in their writing career, because Dean explains the differences between all the genres currently on the market.

Galaxy Freight VI Now Published

Truth Revealed now available on Smashwords, and Amazon and now rolling out to all the other sites.

Captain Alana Black searches both the Cygnus Peace Keeper Base and the Cygnus Space Station to locate the leader of the illegal mining operation on the Altien home world.

She hopes her luck does not run out as she evades explosions and snipers while following each lead, relying on her android, two Altien’s, her ship’s artificial intelligence and a few trusted Peace Keepers.

A 18,000 word, 72 page (approximate) science fiction adventure novella, Book VI in the Galaxy Freight series by Diane J Cornwell.

WMG Publishing Online Workshops on POD Covers and Interiors

Back in July, 2012, I blogged about preparing for POD, and learning layout, cover design and elements. I enrolled to take both Covers and Interiors online workshops with WMG Publishing and have completed the courses. I now realise I knew very little about the process before starting the two courses and have I learnt a lot about POD layout since then!

Monitoring Ebook Sales Part 2

On the 4th January, 2013, in my blog on Monitoring Ebook Sales,  I discussed what I have developed so far in a program I am writing to import my Smashwords and Amazon reports into a database, then searching and displaying the results.

Since then, I have made a few small changes, but like the final results.

Monitoring Ebook Sales

On my 10th April, 2012 blog, I mentioned I was looking at developing a tool (program) to undertake the repetitive tasks in compiling my eBook sales reports into one database for ease of comparing sales at different internet retail sites.

2012 in Review

My year in review or what I learnt in the last twelve months.

One good review lifts my spirits for months and removes self doubt

Galaxy Freight 6 Draft Completed

It is now nine weeks since I moved house, and I have finally finished Galaxy Freight 6. I mostly tied up all the loose ends left hanging in the first five Galaxy Freight stories but left the story arc open for further adventures by Captain Black, her personality swapping android Sam and the space craft artificial intelligence.

Amazon Payments Outside USA

I live outside USA (in Australia) so I am aware that the only way Amazon will pay writers who live outside USA is with a cheque.

I found a site by author, Sarah Billington, who also lives in Australia. She has a petition going at the moment looking for enough writers to sign so she can approach Amazon with hopes of changing their payment system to Paypal.

So, if you live outside USA, and have been frustrated by receiving cheques from Amazon that costs more to process in your bank than the cheque is worth, you might want to look at Sarah’s petition. Hopefully, people power might just change Amazon’s mind about using Paypal. We don’t know until we try.

The link to the petition again.

Please help spread the word to all Indie authors.  Could you share with your friends on Facebook – just click here to share the petition on Facebook.

Thank you.