The Bucket List/So You Want to Write a Book - Publishing with Amazon's KDP (A Few Mistakes that Cost Me Time and Aggravation) Part I

 If you've read this series to this point, I assume you have a story in mind and are ready to begin writing, or perhaps you have already written a final draft and are prepared to enter it into Amazon's Kindle direct publishing manually or by using one of the word templates. I hope you have had good luck with it. It is a great app, and I'm very grateful it was available for me to use. 

After your manuscript is entered into the app, you can export your story from Kindle Direct Publishing. Carefully create a name for the file that you can search for on your computer. I am speaking from the experience of losing a file somewhere in the never-never land of my computer folders because I forgot the exact name. The export files are little brown folders and are very different in appearance from other files you have, which makes it easy to spot them.

Another huge mistake I made was to delete the Kindle Create file that the app uses. I thought that I could copy it onto a disc and use it that way. Please take my advice: you won't be able to get the file back on your computer. I had to return to Kindle Create and manually enter the entire book again. Luckily, I could do this, or everything would have been lost. 

I registered my novel Birch through US Copyright Registration. Registering involved a fee between $45 and $65. However, I have read that as soon as you create a written work, it is automatically considered copyrighted to you. I felt better being entirely legal and I chose to register Birch Run and downloaded the entire novel to the system. Within 2 months, I received a page with all the information and a Library of Congress number. You can still publish with KDP without registering with the US Copyright Office.

Here is an article link on the subject of copyright from Quora: If  you self publish....

The Bucket List Post Links in Chronological Order:

The Bucket List - So You Want to Write a Book/What's Stopping You?

The Bucket List - So You Want to Write a Book/The Lacks

The Bucket List - So You Want to Write a Book/Fears-Unintended Plagiarism

The Bucket List - So You Want to Write a Book/Fears - Ridicule

The Bucket List - So You Want to Write a Book/Kindle Direct Publishing Part I