Today marks twelve days since I submitted The Perfect Wife for review at Amazon, and was finally approved today! What’s funny is that the paperback version was immediately approved for release. Typically, the review process is a technical review to ensure that the resultant electronic copy is formatted properly after conversion. SmashWords immediately accepted the same story except for the front and back, but who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
I’ve switched over to Scrivener for most of my writing. The beauty of Scrivener is that the software breaks up a story into the basic parts, front matter, body, and back matter. The front matter or front of a book is the cover, title page, copyright page, and table of contents. The body is the actual story or the dirty parts. Back matter is information on other stories and about the author.
The body of the story is the same, no matter where it is published. With Scrivener, you create customized front and back matter for the distributor you are using, such as Amazon or SmashWords. Then you tell Scrivener which version to generate and it builds a Word output file of the complete story from front to back.
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