What was the biggest surprise during your book project? It's your story and you get to decide how you tell it, yet a second opinion from a professional should be considered with an open mind. If you want a good book, you have to put your pride aside and listen to your editor, but also fight for what you believe in. My book changed so much compared to my first manuscript. I think the editing process took longer than I expected. Which part of your book project took longer than you expected, and why? That is until I came up with “fighting my tumor with a dose of humor”. Many subheadings I thought of already existed and I wasn't able to communicate what the tone of the book was and also explain that it was about cancer. I could not crack it and tried everything. The subheading, however, took me the longest. In addition, it also refers to how my experience was negative with a lot of positives. As I love a play on words and a good paradox, I added “Positively” in front of it, which highlights both my mindset and the fact that I tested positive. My type of breast cancer is called Triple Negative. The idea of the title came to me fairly early on. I had all this material, so why not? How did you come up with your book title? I wanted to turn something negative into a positive, help people, process my own trauma and tackle the perception and taboo of cancer head on. However, when I was battling breast cancer, I felt this intense need to write about my experience. I always wanted to write a book, but thought it would be fiction. When did you first have the idea for your book? Here are my questions for Eline about self-publishing her memoir. It is best if we can work from the original, editable cover files (like InDesign or Photoshop files) created by your cover designer, but depending on the visuals of the design and the type of file your designer gave you, we may also be able to work from a print-ready pdf. If you already have one cover file but need it adapted to suit the other style of cover, contact me so that I can see if I can adapt the files you have. If you already know at the beginning of your project that your book will most likely be released in both softcover and hardcover formats, this is something you should tell me at the beginning of the project, so that the image I create for your cover has enough margin to wrap around all the sides of the book. The interior file for your hard and soft cover books can be the same one, but you will need two different front cover files, because a hardcover book cover is a different size and needs extra image around all edges to wrap around the board. Yes, but you need two different cover files. Check here to see all the sizes IngramSpark offers in POD with hardcover. They will probably begin to offer more if their POD hardcover service is successful, but for now, if your book is not one of those five sizes, you cannot print it in hardcover with Amazon KDP. So, can you print your book in both soft and hard cover through Amazon KDP? Yes, if you are using one of the sizes which they offer in hardcover.Īs of this month, Amazon KDP offers sixteen book sizes in softcover, but only these five in hardcover:
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