Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: self-publishing

  • Crash

    Thanks First up, thank you to all the people who sent KDP advice via FB, email, and this website. It’s great to know so many of you care. Now the update. Al and I worked all weekend loading and deleting my novel from the Kindle Direct Publishing site. We ran into a few problems, but thought we had…

  • Venus in the House of Love

    Several folks emailed with ideas on what to do about my docx issue. Thanks so much! I’ll be reporting back the minute I get that Kindle book off the ground. Meanwhile, finished the new ending on The Paris Notebook. Wrote it in longhand, so I have to type it into the doc today. As for Venus…

  • Kindle Kinks

    I just want to write. But there is more to publishing than writing. Especially self-publishing. According to Amazon: “A .docx file is a file from Microsoft Word 2007 that is not compatible with previous versions of Word. At this time, documents in .docx format are not supported on KDP. If your content has been created…

  • Learning Curve

    What I learned from yesterday’s fiasco: Stress gives me a migraine. (I already knew that.) Sometimes it is best to drop a problem, watch a movie then get a good night’s sleep. (Knew that too.) Woke up feeling optimistic about fixing every issue with the Kindle upload, and without the urgent need to start working on it right away.…

  • Going Kindle Crazy

    Last report on Sugar Shack’s progress, I mentioned a little trouble with the cover. I checked back on the blog and saw that I’d made a cover image in 5 minutes for Paradise Fields with Picnik. Times have changed and there is no freeware that I could fine that did anything except frustrate me. Picnik…