Plastic Bottle Top SCAM exposure

Are you collecting plastic bottle tops from milk bottles or similar? Hopefully this helps the environment.

 If you are collecting for a wheelchair, then this is a SCAM.

There is only one agency collecting plastic bottle tops for charitable purposes.  That is LUSH, take your bottle tops into any of their high street shops.

www.zoeainsworthgriggbooks.com

Review of Frozen the DVD

This film from the Walt Disney stable is destined to become a classic for many years. Loosely based on the fairy tale of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson, I am sure he would have been delighted. The graphics are wonderful and best viewed on the big screen but the animations will delight everyone. The twist in the ending, would gain approval from Carl Jung and 1960's feminists alike. A thoroughly deserved box office success.

five stars - thoroughly recommended

Brought to you from -  Planet Somerset

Review - The Snow Cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UEkd51sWJA

This engaging story of cat magic will delight all kids 3-9 years of age whether they read it themselves or  read the story by an adult.  Available only on kindle. With original illustrations and in verse. Kids will enjoy the story of sledging.. The book includes a link to a you tube film about cats. A story for the train or the plane.

For this and other stories go to

www.zoeainsworthgriggbooks.com

Self Publish? My experience.

Self  Publishing Cost Effective and Easy.

A few tips on getting into print

I have made all the mistakes of a first time writer and wanting to publish.  I got caught by self publishing firms that promise the earth and don’t deliver.   I have experimented on the internet until I have now honed this process.  If you are content to electronically self publish this is my overview of how to set about it.

If you want to have a few hard copies at your disposal, this is also possible with this method.

The First part is your creative skill

·         Make your document. 

·         You may want to embellish with clip art or photographs, this enhances the document.  You can use your own or photos on line. Beware of copyright- on photographs it can be an expensive mistake.

·         You may want to number the pages- this is required if a long novel.

·         On your last page include a photo of yourself and a profile. People want to know your qualifications and who you are.

Part Two

·         Log onto www.Smashwords.com  and download their guidelines.

·         The most important thing is the title and the font which is explained

·         This is an example of one of my book title pages as recommended by Smashwords.

The Plucky Police Car

By Zoe Ainsworth-Grigg

Published by Zoe Ainsworth-Grigg

Copyright 2013 Zoe Ainsworth-Grigg

Discover other titles by Zoe Ainsworth-Grigg at

http://www.amazon.com

© All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author

When you have done this

You will also have to produce a cover with an image that is acceptable TO SMASHWORDS.

You can go to https://www.createspace.com/Help/Book/ArtworkDownload.do

To create a book cover or if you have a high resolution photograph of the correct size you can add text at www.addtext.com

Step Three

·         Go to Amazon and log on to their front page.

·         Right at the bottom of the page is a heading “make money with us” and under that “INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISH WITH US”.

·         Go through the details of publishing and then it is best to upload your coverto Smashwords specification.

·         Continue and publish on Kindle.

·         You can come back to this and edit at any time, more later.

Step Four

·         Go back to Smashwords and using your produced cover image.

·         At this stage make sure to get your free ISBN number. Useful if a library buys your book.

·         Go back to Amazon and add the ISBN number by editing the document.

·         Add this number at the bottom of your document so that when you make a hard copy it will be there.

You are now published electronically

 

Publishing a hard copy

There are two sites which will help with getting you document ready

Picture books www.blurb.com

Mainly text documents www.lulu.com

Choose your printing company as there are many locally that give good deals.

To experiment go to www.printing.com   or any other online printing sites.

Step Four

·         Choose the option  “Brochure” at www.printing.com

·          and the size of your book

·         It is important which ever printing company you choose, to determine how they would like to receive the cover and back page. Usually they require a pdf document which includes the cover image

·         Play about with the paper weights until you find something that you like within your price range.

·         Copy the details of paper weights and details of the cover paper weight if you are then going to go to a local printer.

·         Ask printers for prices; be specific of your requirements.

·         Accept and remember to include in the order a number of copies that you will give to relatives and friends.

·         Do not set a price on the print.

·         Order

You are now in print and published.

You can now sell your book on Amazon too.

Step Five -Advertising your book

·         Facebook, twitter, electronically, there are group sites for Kindle ( Kindlefancast) and other group Facebook sites.

·         Selling to friends; this is the most lucrative when you are starting out as an author.

·         Book signings.

·         Table at local fairs.

Consider giving a copy to your local library.

Zoe Ainsworth- Grigg

·         © All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author

Book Give Away

I am giving away copies of my first book: Here is the link

http://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/weblog/2014/04/miss-flimps-destiny-by-zoe-ainsworth-grigg-book-giveaway.html