My short story, Storm of Stone, is finally in print and available on Amazon for both kindle and physical. It's been a long, long process, but in the end I think it was all worth it. I'm really fortunate to have found my artist friend and be able to commision them to do the art. The formatting in Adobe Indesign took a while because I hadn't used that program since freshman year, but I picked it up fairly quickly, and was able to do things that I didn't even know were possible in the program. Probably the hardest part though, was actually getting it on Amazon, not because the process of doing so is actually difficult, but mostly because I didn't actually know what I was doing. The kindle version was especially hard to figure out, because you can't just upload the PDF file straight to the site for some reason, so I had to try and copy and paste the entire book into a word document. When that didn't work, I eventually figured out that Amazon made this program called Kindle Kids Book Creator, which even though it's primarily designed to create picture books, it can also turn your fully formatted PDF files into ebooks that look the exact same. I've sent a lot of copies out to family, friends, teachers, and even several of the LGBT centers in the state due to the subject matter and the characters in the book being who they are. I'm currently writing the full-length SKINWALKER novel, which naturally takes place before Storm of Stone. SoS was 19.3k words in total when I finished it, and SKINWALKER is already larger than that in half the time because SoS allowed me to grow so much as a writer.
Some things that helped me out Kindle Kid's Book Creator How to use Kindle Direct Publishing CreateSpace Formatting
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