By chance I discovered there was a problem with
the formatting on my novel MURDER IN PANAMA.
My friend downloaded the book to her Kindle and the letters were cut off
in the left and right margins.
I immediately checked my own Kindle and could
see it was okay. Something had happened at Amazon. Further research proved me correct. When Amazon released their ‘Fire’, they made
some formatting changes. As an Indie author/publisher, it’s my responsibility
to be aware of these changes as they’re announced. I hadn’t paid attention.
Whew! All along I thought my Jimmy Hart series
was just a dud. No one was buying the
books; MURDER IN PANAMA is the first of the series. Why would a reader buy the
second in the series if they couldn’t read the first? Duhhhhh?
So I decided to investigate all my published
work. The first one I checked was my
best seller, ALASKA BE DAMNED. The
margins were okay but it had been justified and all the excess spaces between
sentences had been removed. I checked the version on my Kindle. Sure enough, my version was left justified
and had the ragged right. Also where
there was a scene change, in the old version, a space between paragraphs was
used to break the scene/time. In the
newest justified version, the spaces had been removed and they all ran
together; confusing and non professional.
I spent last night changing that and included **** instead of spaces to
break the scenes.
I sincerely apologize to all who have purchased
either of the above mentioned novels.
They have been repaired and according to my test;’ buying and
downloading on my Kindle, are good to go. FYI, I am currently looking at the
balance of my work. Stand by for further
reports.
