Saw that Admiral’s Gambit was out at Amazon. Was it easier the second time around? Did you do anything different?
Much easier the second time around. Since you can go back and make changes at any time to (in this case) my first book Admiral Who? I just opened up Admiral Who like I was going to make changes. And put it side by side with the 'new book' I was starting. being able to see what I'd done before made things move much faster. I just copied keywords and catagories, after some contemplation if I wanted to change from catagories, Adventure/Space Opera to Space Opera/Military Science Fiction, I decided to just keep it the same. I did modify one key word. I went with Space Adventure. Just have to see how it stacks up.
Although that said. While it was much faster and easier, the part I had trouble with once again was when I uploaded the file. This time I was using word, .doc, .docx, or .rtf. didn't matter what I did. Basically? The amazon previewer sucks. It shows indents that don't show up, when they convert your file. And if I put indents in they double indented. It was really frustrating. Plus between converting all my files from .doc to .docx to .rtf, Word auto changed my times new roman to something else. So when I uploaded the first file on amazon, even though the whole rest of the book was in times new roman except for the frist two sentences, the who look was auto converted into that strange style that snuck into the first two lines during all the copy and paste.
about an hour to two hours after it went live I uploaded the same file only without the funky font on those two lines, and with the indents back in. So now the file actually looks readable but sadly, my single indent paragraphs have been magically converted into double indent paragraphs. Not what I was intending at all and very frustrating. I don't know how to fix it. I'll just have to play around with it later I guess.
Anyone have any handy hints about how to just get a single indent? Cause what they show you on the previewer and what they actually put up on amazon for people to buy? Doesn't always match!!!
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