![]() ![]() Once you have the Word document ready and formatted, the next thing you’ll want to do is save it. I’ll explain more about how that helped later on, but for now… if you are using chapter header art and you don’t want it floating on a separate page, drop a blank heading 3 line above it. To get around this, I added a blank line formatted with Heading 3 above the image. That resulted in the image floating by itself on a separate page. The problem I ran into when using chapter art, is that the heading comes after the artwork. By default, Calibre detects new chapters with Heading 1 or Heading 2 styles. ![]() This is a screenshot of The Forest Beyond the Earth Word document that I set up for ebooks. I found a little workaround that helps, since I like to use chapter header art. ![]() Page Breaks – herein comes the tricky part. (I guess it’s the margaritas?) So, unless you’re a master already at converting e-books (in which case, I doubt you’re bothering to read this) skip the drop caps for the Kindle version. Even the e-books my publisher puts out sometimes have drop caps with an irresistible migratory urge to head south. They float above the line, disappear, migrate to another page, and so on. Kindle readers (so I have been told) are more interested in story than fancy, so don’t worry too much if your nice fonts go poof.ĭrop Caps – It’s been my experience that drop caps and Calibre don’t get along well. That nice fancy Foglighten font you’ve got as chapter titles is going to turn into something plain. With an e-book document, most of the fancy fonts aren’t going to make it into the final MOBI file. Take that file and save two other copies with different names, one for e-book conversion and one for paperback conversion if you’re going to do that. One is a master file with no formatting at all, the same thing the editors and proofreaders saw. There are a few things to bear in mind when formatting the manuscript to be turned into an e-book. I’m not terribly familiar with OpenOffice, but if it has the ability to save a document as Webpage, filtered, it should be okay. Microsoft Word – This little guide is written assuming you are using MS Word. I do not have any affiliation with the creator of Calibre, other than using the software. If you’ve never heard of it, you can find it here: GET CALIBRE. #Calibre ebook 2018 softwareIt’s difficult to use a piece of software without actually having that software installed. Here I am again with the glaringly obvious thing. You’ll want to have the interior art embedded in the Word document beforehand.Ĭalibre Ebook Management. (Looks a bit nicer than * * * in print.) This too is part of the whole completed manuscript thing. This includes the cover as well as any interior (chapter header) art you wish to include as well as if you are going to use an artistic element as a scene break. So, suffice to say, get the edits and proofs done, and put the manuscript in a state where you can read it without screaming.Ĭompleted artwork. No true author can ever read their own work and not want to change something. (This may seem glaringly obvious, but I suppose in a country where coffee needs to be labeled hot, nothing is too obvious to mention.) Your manuscript should be (at this point) finished, edited, proof-read, left to age gracefully in a wooden ice box on the side of the Rocky Mountains for a couple months, then re-read until you don’t want to change even one comma. How something can be simultaneously wonderful and painful, I’m still working to understand.Īnyway, you will need the following things before proceeding:Ī completed manuscript. (Yay for content generation, right?) Anyway, I’m far from a master at this but I have worked out the kinks in getting a manuscript out of Microsoft Word and into the Shakespearean tragedy that is Amazon. I’ve had a number of people ask about the process, so I figured I may as well write a blog post about it. Okay, so I’ve recently been doing a bit of conversion, generating ebooks. ![]()
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