After working on the print file for a week now, it’s ready for submission to CreateSpace. Based on the advice by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch in their very helpful book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book, I decided to do the layout in Adobe InDesign. I’ve worked on Adobe products for most of my adult life so I figure the switch to InDesign wouldn’t be that big of a challenge. Unfortunately, like most things in this journey, I grossly underestimated the time required. The learning curve for Adobe InDesign was very steep. After several attempts to get the document just right, I realize that I set it up incorrectly for a book with the dimensions of 5.5″ x 8.5″. But eventually after many YouTube videos and web searches I figured out the right way to do the overall process and layout. The next step will be to figure out exactly some of the styles I want to incorporate and then submit the document. So here goes nothing…
Update 09/16/2015: I didn’t send it out. See following posts.
