Comments on: Hooking the Reader & Sticking the Sale—Formatting Matters https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:35:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Richard Leonard https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56581 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:35:50 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56581 I hope to be in a position to format my novel sometime in the next 6 months. As a software engineer I’m hoping that experience will help me tolerate the pedantic file formatting software I’ll no doubt have to work with. Not stressed yet. Looking forward to it!

]]> By: douginnc https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56580 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:16:26 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56580 Kait does a terrific job of making Kristen’s point about the importance of formatting, albeit unintentionally: I couldn’t concentrate on the piece by the former due to the incessantly jumpy GIF files snapping around on my computer screen. Just as the latter predicted, I quickly stopped reading.

]]> By: rababoojee https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56579 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:44:21 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56579 Reblogged this on rababoojee and commented:
Great words

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday 02-26-2015 | The Author Chronicles https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56578 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:08:27 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56578 […] picture ebooks was formatting—the illustrations gave ebooks problems. As Kait Nolan explains, good formatting matters in regular novel ebooks, […]

]]> By: maryblackhill https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56577 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:48:46 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56577 Thank you to Heather Rainier who pointed me to you, Kirsten: your wisdom is educating me further almost every day. Yup – I have been fighting with formatting and as technology is not my thing – Kait will get me. Assuming she’s happy to work with a Brit author who uses “u”s in unlikely places! (Colour, Honour, Neighbour etc).

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56576 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:30:08 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56576 In reply to jeanmariebauhaus.

More than enough work for everyone. Kait can’t do them all, so feel free to point them this way. 🙂

]]> By: Hard to Scare https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56575 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:28:01 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56575 Awesome post! Thank you 🙂

]]> By: Tom Fitch https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56574 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:16:10 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56574 I did the formatting on Intersection Diaries myself. Converted the original Word-document to both Epub and Mobi with a free software called Calibre on the Mac. Was a piece of cake. It took some trial and error to get the cover-page right, but all in all, I found it easy.

Just my 5 cent.

Tom

]]> By: Tamara LeBlanc https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56573 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:29:39 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56573 I recently had my novel formatted by a professional in the hopes of many Epub sales. She was quick, professional and reasonable. I’d like to learn how to formatt for my own knowledge, but I don’t think I’ll ever do it for sales purposes (just in case I screw it up) I have lots of friends who used my formatter and they were ALL happy.
By the way, Kait, season 3 is also my favorite Supernatural collection!!!! I’m a die-hard fan, but that season was OH SO Amazing!!
Thanks for the wisdom Kristen and Kait!!

]]> By: Ellen Hawley https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/02/hooking-the-reader-sticking-the-sale-formatting-matters/#comment-56572 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:04:59 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16852#comment-56572 It’s amazing what a difference formatting makes–something I realized when my first book was published. The chapters suddenly looked more separate. More like–well, chapters. A reader could really draw a breath between them. Just the other day I was reading an unformatted manuscript for a friend and I found myself really struggling to understand what role the various parts would play once they were sorted out visually.

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