Winter Season
What feels like a month later. Here we are.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ18F4WV?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520
This has been such a learning process.
I saw that button there for create a cover with Kindle Cover Creator. Button’s make me nervous so I left it alone. As I’m fighting with margins to use my own cover, over 2 hours later, I thought I’d give cover creator a try.
With one picture I wanted to use, it was hard to adjust the size. But it’s cool overall. If I wanted to, I could have added an overview of the book on the back, a picture and brief bio. But it was midnight and I just wanted to get it finished. Added this information much later.
Also discovered, there is a minimum price KDP will let you charge. Thought it would be best to keep my book under $10.00. That didn’t happen.
I wanted to leave my font Arial. To me, it’s clean and easy to read. With KDP, you have to embed fonts. And for whatever reason I had (at first) 20 pages with fonts that didn’t embed. Even though I told Word to. After changing font to Garamond, surprise, fonts embedded. However, I felt like I had to make the text bigger to read. Which meant one more look through for widows and orphans. I read; having those, your manuscript doesn’t look professional.
A big heart felt thank you to Ted for writing the forward.
And I want to thank cazzycoop for finding the uk link.
Thank you to everyone that read Winter Season giving me the courage to turn it into a book. 💕
Poetry & More 
Thanks for thinking of me🙂I love your writing and I’ll start Sunshine Valley soon. (Funny that we’re moving into “Winter Season” now . . .
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Thank you 💕 I did have some excellent timing posting sections of the story. ⏰
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If you are interested, I’ll share my e-mail address.
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You are so sweet.🫶 I would love to see how it turned out. Your experiences with fonts and formatting are things that make a big difference, and there’s not a lot of info on how to do them. And every platform seems to be different or have different ideas of what is ‘correct’. It’s not like you can just whip out the Chicago Manual of Style and get the ‘right’ answer for how to do it. I’m glad you’re happy with the results!
As for how to share physical goods, I’m such a newbie to what I suppose is social media that I can’t think how to safely do that?
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I just moved one of comments to the trash to see if it would let me. I’m going to post my e-mail address. As soon as I do, let me know you got it and I’ll delete it. I’m a little concerned too. But it’s important to me to say thank you.
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Jolene, the words you write are thank you enough. I don’t think you should pose your e-mail. It just seems too dangerous. I am gratified and humbled that you consider me a writer friend and that you let me give my opinion about your wonderful writing for others to read, but you must treat your privacy with care so you can continue to post your quality work and not have to fight other demons! 🫶🙂
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Thank you again 💕 I appreciate all the support, kind words, and I am so glad you enjoy my stories. Thank you 💕
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According to Google, I can download a plug in and send private messages. I’ll have to play with this on my laptop.👍🏻
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