Sunday I decided to put other work aside and complete the tasks needed to e-self-publish Doctor Luke’s Assistant. This is my fourth e-published item. I had completed all the text changes I wanted to make back in December last year, but knew I had a few formatting issues for Kindle and Smashwords. I also wanted to build an interactive Table of Contents.

I did all that on Sunday afternoon, after my simple lunch, a 40 minute walk, some pleasure reading (well, writing-related pleasure reading), and a short nap. I checked each chapter and paragraph for consistency of font and indent, and make sure I wasn’t indenting via tabs. I also had to take out one diagram, since it wouldn’t format correctly for an e-reader. This required a small text change. I had all that done by 5:00 PM.

I then began the Kindle uploading process. I hadn’t done that since December, and found I once again had to scale the learning curve. One thing I did differently. In the past I finalized the MS Word .doc file, then saved as a filtered web page, as per Kindle instructions. In the past I then uploaded that into MobiPocket creator and created a .prc file. That’s the file I then uploaded to Kindle. This time, I read the instructions and it said to upload the filtered web page file, so that’s what I did.

I’ve had the cover since early February, created my Jami Gardner Design. It’s not necessarily final, as Jami is working on an alternate I requested, and we may tweak this one. But I think it’s somewhat close to what the final will be, and it works for now, so I decided to use it for the moment.

I set the e-book price at $4.99. I did this because it’s a long novel (155,000 words, which works out to 500 print pages or so). This may be too high of a price to get any sales, but I’ll leave it there for a while.

You can buy it here at the Amazon Kindle store. I don’t know when I’ll get to the print edition, or the Smashwords edition. I’m thinking of trying it out on the Kindle Select program, which gives Kindle a 90 day exclusive on it.

That done, it’s on to finish The Candy Store Generation, do a few more edits of In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People, then maybe work on a couple of short things.