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Premade ebook cover fantasy, young adult, paranormal, romance ID3323

Premade ebook cover fantasy, young adult, paranormal, romance ID3323

 

More info coming soon – $49 – exclusive premade ebook cover design customized with your information. Contact amatthews@amdesignstudios.net to purchase with ID 3323.

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Formatting for Kindle Ebook

Dowload for a Formatting Sample

My first attempt at getting through the Smashwords meat grinder took about a week—a week to read through the intensive manual, then an entire day to get past the frustrating “auto vetter” errors. The next day I blocked for taking my Smashwords eBook file and converting it to Kindle eBook format. After that, came converting for Nook. Three days all together. Three days that could have been spent writing. At my 1500 a day word count, that’s 4500 words! Nearly a short story!

When formatting “The Light Keepers – a ShadowLight Saga Prequel,” I cheated. Since it had been five months since my last upload, I’d forgotten all the Smashwords and Kindle formatting rules. So, I used Ann Mauren to format my file. She formatted one document that worked for all platforms without one single error, saving me days of work. It literally took me ten minutes at each site to publish my book. Plus, Ann addressed some of the formatting issues I had skipped before, such as hyperlinking all my chapters instead of letting Smashwords and Word do it “their way.”

Thanks to Ann, here’s what I learned: a well formatted eBook file can work for: Amazon, Smashwords and Barnes and Noble with just a few tweaks and save you a whole lot of time—a task well-worth outsourcing to a pro.

Want to see a sample of a perfectly formatted eBook? Download “The Light Keepers” from Smashwords for free. If you need help formatting your own eBook, contact Ann Mauren—she’s fast, affordable, dependable and detailed—an indie author ally and self-publishing arsenal must.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE about Ann’s eBook formatting services.

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Premade ebook cover ID 3322 - Fantasy, YA, Romance, Fairy, Angel, Magic

Premade ebook cover ID 3322 - Fantasy, YA, Romance, Fairy, Angel, Magic

A premade cover design for $49.

Will be customized with your author name, title and book blurb.

Suitable for Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Paranormal Romance SPECS: Amazon preferred size 600×800 at 96dpi

This is an exclusive design and will not be resold once purchased.

To purchase this design, contact amatthews@amdesignstudios.net

Need help with your interior book formatting?

AMDesign Studios can help! Ann Mauren provides manuscript conversion from Word to Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and can even get you through the notorious Smashwords meat grinder. If you’re having difficulty producing a high quality formatted ebook, contact amauren@amdesignstudios.net and she can get your manuscript professionally formatted for any digital ebook format at an affordable price.

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Premade eBook Cover - Paranormal, Fantasy, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fallen Angel

Premade eBook Cover - Paranormal, Fantasy, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fallen Angel ID3321

A premade fallen angel, or dark angel ebook cover for $49.

Will be customized with your author name, title and book blurb.

Suitable for Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Paranormal Romance
SPECS: Amazon preferred size 600×800 at 96dpi

This cover requires photography credit for the wings in your book cover. Photography by: Anna Soluch

This is an exclusive design and will not be resold once purchased.

To purchase this design, contact amatthews@amdesignstudios.net

Need help with your interior book formatting?

AMDesign Studios can help! Ann Mauren provides manuscript conversion from Word to Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and can even get you through the notorious Smashwords meat grinder. If you’re having difficulty producing a high quality formatted ebook, contact amauren@amdesignstudios.net and she can get your manuscript professionally formatted for any digital ebook format at an affordable price.

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Copy Editing, Synopsis Writing, Ebook Formatting

Refer one of these services: copy editing, synopsis writing, ebook formatting

Introducing the Refer and Win program!

We are offering your choice of a $50 Amazon or iTunes gift card for any referrals that lead to an invoiced job for our ebook formatting, copy editing or story synopsis services.

Here’s how you win:

Refer your friends or colleagues for one of the above services. Make sure they mention your name and email in their initial email. If their referral results in an invoiced job, you will be rewarded with your choice of an Amazon or iTunes gift certificate in the amount of $50! It’s that easy!

Now start referring!

Offer expires July 1, 2012. Referral must result in an invoiced ebook formatting, copy editing or story synopsis job.
 
This offer does not apply to graphic design, author branding, cover design, premade covers, or author branding.

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Win Free Copy Editing, Book Formating, or Synopsis Writing AND Author Branding or Cover Design

Win Free Copy Editing, eBook or Print Formating, or Synopsis Writing AND Author Branding or Ebook or Print Cover Design

AMDesign Studios is pleased to offer a “You Pick Two” Grand Prize Package! One lucky winner will get his or her choice of ONE specialty ebook service from BOTH Amanda and Ann (the AMs of AMDesign Studios – designers dedicated to author services)!

The prize includes your choice of a free Author Branding Package or free Custom Ebook or Print Cover (from Amanda) AND your choice of either a free Copy Edit Package, a free Ebook or Print Formatting Package, or a free Synopsis Writing Package (from Ann).

Learn more about the contest on L.M. Stull’s blog.

You can enter to win one of two ways:

  1. Click on over to L.M. Stull’s blog. She’s hosting the give-way. Leave a comment on the blog post for the give-away and you’re officially entered.
  2. Sign-up for the AMDesign Studios newsletter. Your name will be entered in the drawing.

The winner will be selected in a random drawing at the end of May and announced in a follow-up to this post on L.M. Stull’s website, Mande Matthew’s blog, and AMDesign Studios.

Are you ready? Go enter!

Enter by leaving a comment on L.M. Stull’s website.

Enter by signing up for AMDesign Studios’ newsletter.

Good luck!

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Would you agree with the following statement?  “Irregardless is not a word.”   If so, you might be surprised to learn that it actually is in the dictionary.  (Merriam-Webster.com)

It’s thought to have originated as a blend of the words irrespective and regardless, with the first documented usage traced back to around 1912.  Perhaps it may have been used in this context: “The Titanic has sunk, irregardless of her reputation as the unsinkable ship!

Extensive use of the word brought it to the attention of commentators as early as 1927.  To this day, the most frequently repeated remark about it is “there is no such word.”  But, in fact, there is such a word, and it can occasionally be found in edited prose, although you are most likely to encounter it primarily in dialectal American speech.

For those who still insist that “irregardless is not a word,” you can take a measure of comfort and justification in the fact that although irregardless may appear in modern dictionaries, it also comes with the following one word caveat:  nonstandard.

Here’s another interesting fact about the word irregardless:  according to a list on their website, it is the 65th most popular word on Merriam-Webster.com.  If you are like me, now you are curious about the number one most popular word.  Any guesses?

Merriam-Webster Online:  Most Popular Word Searches

Ann Mauren provides affordable copy editing and ebook formatting services.  She’s also a logophile.

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Premade Cover Art for Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Inspirational, Young Adult

Premade Cover Art for Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Inspirational, Young Adult

Information coming soon – exclusive design customized with your information – $49

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Premade Book Covers - Romance, Fantasy, YA, Paranormal, Women's Fiction

Premade Book Covers - Romance, Fantasy, YA, Paranormal, Women's Fiction ID3319

This premade book cover is perfect for young adult, romance, women’s fiction, romance and more.

It comes customized with your name, novel title, and any blurb you’d like to include for $49.

SPECS: Amazon preferred size 800×600 96dpi for use on any ebook retailer.

Contact amattews@amdesignstudios.net with ID3319 to purchase this cover. As all our covers, this is an exclusive design. Once purchased, it will not be resold. Uniquely yours.

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Romance Premade Book Cover - Historical, Literature ID3317

Romance Premade Book Cover - Historical, Literature ID3317

This premade book cover design is suitable for romance, historical, literature, epic and more. The cover comes with your name, title, and any blurb you need for $49.

SPECS: Amazon preferred 800×600 96dpi works for any online ebook retailers.

Contact amatthews@amdesignstudios.net with ID3317 to purchase this cover.