What is Createspace?
Createspace.com is place for a self-published author to upload a manuscript so that it can be printed by major book publishers. Amazon (who now sells 70% of books), Barnes & Noble and others all will have access to “The Sick Mom’s Guide®” on our publication date!
Getting it done isn’t as easy as it sounds though! The book was beautiful! Once uploaded though, it took on a life of its own! Six new pages magically appeared, distorting the images and formatting that had been done. Lesson to remember: you can upload a Word doc, but don’t! Uploading a PDF saves hours of work, trust me on this one!
There are so many things that have been done in the past 24 hours for the final completion:
- Adjust margins (Do you know what a gutter is? How about mirroring? I didn’t before this project!)
- Format content that changed due to margin shift
- Embed fonts into the document
- Final spell and grammar check
- Final read through of completed book
- Format from Word doc to PDF
- Check dpi and placement of all images (sometimes they change during the PDF process)
- Upload into Createspace
- Use Createspace tool to make final corrections
- Upload description, tags, and other necessary info into Createspace
- Click “SUBMIT”
- Smile the biggest smile I’ve ever had! This is so exciting!
It’s only been a few months since this project started. There’s been a little stress, but mostly it’s just been a wonderful fulfillment of a lifelong dream. I’ve written countless ‘first chapters’ of books that just never got finished, but this book was written in 8 days. It’s story needed to be told.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it,
Jen