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Formatting and Uploading Your Book to Amazon

Plus Tips on Covers and Graphic Design

How to get your book onto the most popular selling platform.

This course is designed for beginners or those seeking to learn the mechanics behind formatting and uploading your self-published book. We’ll focus on how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and touch briefly on IngramSpark and Smashwords.

If you’re thinking about hiring a graphic designer for the layout of your book, learn to communicate what you want by picking up terms like “bleed” and “aspect ratio.” Pointers on eye-catching cover designs will be provided as well as examples of software and where to find a graphic designer. Ticana will be available for a Q&A after the presentation.

Ticana Zhu studied Visual Communications Design (Graphic Design) at Kent State University. Her first internship was at a small press where self-publishing vehicles were heavily utilized. Since then, she’s gone on to self-publish the Dynasty of Summer duology as well as children’s books such as When the Moon Stopped: A Change’E Retelling, and many more.