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Christel Malden
I have recently published Dirt on Smashwords as well as on Amazon. It was a difficult decision, to be honest, but in the end, as an unknown, I decided I had to reach a wider market than just Amazon and, to be honest, I needed to make the first book in the series free - something you cannot do on Amazon.
Once you sign up I suggest you sort out your profile, find your way around the Dashboard and fill out your Author Interview. You can either use their set questions, which are pretty good, or add your own.
Preparation is important. Smashwords goes through two processes. The first is quick and easy and just makes your book available on Smashwords itself. However, the main reason you will be publishing through them is to get listed on iTunes, Barnes & Noble and so on. To be on those you need to be accepted into the Premium Catalogue (it is free) and the review process is manual and much more fussy.
The recommended method of publishing is by uploading a MS Word document. Mostly, it is assumed that this will have been created with Microsoft Office, however, you can also create it with Libre Office (OpenOffice).
If you are anything like me, you are starting with a double spaced simple document made from a good novel-manuscript template. Just as an aside, if you are not, then go and get one. It makes writing a lot more sensible one way or another.
Table of Contents. If you have used the office automated TOC at the front of your book (which I always do) it can really mess up the Smashwords automated system, so you need to get rid of it and replace it, which we will do later.
Manual Page Breaks and Section Breaks. It really is worth getting rid of these and then we will add just a few later that we must have. To get rid of these, put your doc into draft view mode, then open replace. To get rid of manual page breaks type in ^m^p, make sure there is nothing in the replace with field and replace all. Now do the same for section breaks but use: ^b^p.
There are several other things you need to get rid of which are a bit of a pain actually. If you are using a decent template, then your paragraphs should have been set up with a first line indent. Good! Unfortunately, some authors insist on either using a tab or hitting the space bar several time to get the effect - BAD! Go and get rid of them all.
The key here is that if you are using styles correctly in Word, that is, creating styles based on the Normal style that take care of things like headings, first line indents, centre text, paras in italics and so on, then your life is going to be one hell of lot easier. If you are hitting space bars and returns all over the place to get the same effect, then you are in trouble. You will have to clean it up. If it is a real mess, then the Style Guide has some tips on a sort of nuclear option for getting rid of everything.
For most books, that is probably all you need. If you have things like poems and songs that you want to make a little prettier, then by all means set up a style for them, but KEEP IT SIMPLE. Remember that this is an e-book not a print book and clever stuff does not work or will just get destroyed by the publishing process.
All with a page break in between so they are separate pages. For all of these I use the centre style I created earlier. Where I want a bit of a title, like "Dedication" or the title of the book, I use this style then set the font size to 14.
Word has this bad habit of sometimes adding bookmarks that you do not understand and seem random. This is the thing that messed me up. When I submitted my book, it failed because the contents list did not work properly. Part of this was because of these strays.
Note: When you create your hyper-links and bookmarks, make sure you only highlight the actual word. Be careful that you do not stray as it might break it. Even when it works fine when in Word (and please check it first), when you upload it, the Smashwords Machine might misread it.
NOTE: There is no Save Draft like you have with Kindle KDP - the button on the bottom will publish your book! So make sure you have all your publicity text ready in advance. Do not have any links or email addresses in this information.
Once you have done, the first thing that will happen is that your book will be converted by the automatic system and be published on the Smashwords website, warts and all, assuming it has not discovered any terrible problems.
At the same time, it will be cued to be reviewed for the Premium Catalogue. This process takes several days, so as soon as your book is on Smashwords, go and down load the Epub version of the book and check it with the Adobe Digital Editions reader. It is free and can be downloaded here.
If the TOC is not working properly, or if only part is appearing, or some links are going batty, go back to your doc and remake it. You may need to delete it, delete all the bookmarks and have another go, being really careful and precise. Then re-upload it using the Upload new version link on the book's listing in the dashboard and NOT the publish link - that is only for completely new books.
Now you will just have to wait for the review process than can take a week. If there are problems, they will be listed at the end of the review process, though I can't guarantee that it will be totally helpful. Mine said that there were problems with the TOC, but not WHAT those problems were. You will just have to correct it and put it back into review.
With Amazon KDP and Createspace, you simply give them your ITIN from your country - for the UK that is your normal NI number. However, Smashwords is currently a bit behind the times and their field wont accept the number. (They tell me that they are going to change this).
Now, here is the clever bit - Go and email Smashwords support. Tell them you have filled in the form and can you upload it to them. They will be very nice and send you a special link. Scan your signed document and use the link to upload the resulting PDF. There, that save a lot of messing around with postage!
The Series Manager is something I seriously suggest you consider if your books make up a series. Simply create a series, give it an image and add books. You can change the order and how they are listed. This just helps cross promotion.
Basically, you go to the book page on Amazon and look for the link under Product Description for Tell us about a lower price. Then use that to report that your book is free on Barnes & Noble, itunes and Kobo. Don't bother telling them about Smashwords, they are not interested.
Sadly, this link is not always there and they may just ignore you. It will possibly take weeks, maybe longer. This is a really big stupid mess-up with Amazon, to be honest and does nothing to help the struggling independent author that they say they support.
Smashwords do not have any twitter cards or open Graph SEO meta tags on their book pages. So if you post a link to your book on Twitter, you will not get the Summary, which is a shame. It is probably worth making up some nice images that are 1024 x 512 pixels in size publicising your book and then when you post links, add these to your post. it will make them stand out.
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