Review: Helpful, insightful and fun guide
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2013
*** DISCLAIMER ***Although I've received this book free of charge as a beta reader, I WASN'T asked anything in exchange for that, not even a review. I also have no commercial connection to the publishers/authors. But I decided to write a brief comment on the book because it has helped me and I hope it can help other customers:Here's a quote from the book:"Everyone likes to say, `I have an idea for a novel, maybe someday'. Frankly, they aren't going to write it. They don't know how to buckle down and get past the fact that their writing all seems to be coming out wrong. And when that happens, what are they going to do with their novel? Send it off to the Big Six and get turned down, or maybe offered a contract for half what it's worth?"Well, this passage above has changed my life. After proofreading this book I decided to try my hand at writing and this guide has been a treasure map. Not only for erotica stories, either. Dalia Daudelin has gathered so much important information to include in this fun-to-read and very easy-to-follow text that it covers virtually all the steps one needs to follow in order to publish a book using all the modern tools and technology at our disposal today.  It makes anybody's life so much easier that you'll finally be able to achieve that lifelong dream of having your name on the cover of a shining new book. I know I'll do it!*** UPDATING THIS REVIEW ***I'd like to write a testimonial about Ms. Daudelin's book helping me publish with Amazon. It goes something like this:Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!I wouldn't have made it without this book.Last night I sent a file to Amazon with my first book and it hit me that I would never have managed to do it right and so effortlessly if I hadn't read your guidelines, Ms Daudelin.In fact, I'm sure I would have either given up or screwed everything up royally. Amazon offers 'help links' and even some guidelines but they are incomplete and/or difficult to understand, especially for beginners like myself. It was late, and I had had a very busy day, but I literally doze off trying to read some of them.  No kidding, I really did!And this is true for the whole process, from selecting the magic 7 key-words for readers to search your book to cover design to actually sending the file. This last part, for instance: if you read only the guidelines on Amazon website, you'll get the impression the ONLY option for people to transfer files is using a PC/MAC Word file converted to Web Page and letting Amazon convert it to MOBI authomatically. Which, thanks to Ms. Daudelin, we all know now that could result in a not so appealing ebook. They never say you can send your own MOBI file. I got tired of reading the whole section on formatting and sending files and risked sending my MOBI converted file and it got through OK.Well, this is just another example of how insightful and downright pratical this guide will be to anyone attempting to enter this amazing world of writing.KUDOS!!