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Seven basic steps to walk you through formatting your fiction book for publication through Smashwords using OpenOffice, the free office suite software.
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L. Leona Davis
L. Leona Davis lives in Kaiserslautern, Germany with her soldier husband and infant daughter.
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Basic Fiction Formatting for Smashwords in OpenOffice - L. Leona Davis
Basic Fiction Formatting for Smashwords in OpenOffice
L. Leona Davis
Copyright 2012 L. Leona Davis
All Rights Reserved
Cover Photo by Dmitry Maslov
Cover Design by L. Leona Davis
Smashwords Edition June 2012
Smashwords Edition License Notes:
This free ebook may be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared, provided it appears in its entirety without alteration, and the reader is not charged to access it.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Step 1: Pre-Formatting
Step 2: The Nuclear Method
Step 3: Choosing a Paragraph Separation Method
Step 4: First Line Indent Formatting
Step 5: Creating the Copyright Page and Title Page
Step 6: Inserting Manual Breaks
Step 7: Creating a Linked Table of Contents
Conclusion
Appendix: Basic Fiction Book Template
INTRODUCTION
The contents of this ebook first appeared on my blog in April and
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