Note from Jane: This post has been updated to reflect changes in tools available on the market.

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So your book is sitting in Microsoft Word, and you’d like to get that material converted into an ebook format you can sell through ebook retailers such as Amazon.

If you’re patient and willing to format your Word document carefully, you can use the automated conversion processes of Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, Draft2Digital, or similar ebook retailer and distribution services. They want to make it easy for you to get published, so they’ll convert your Word document into an ebook file instantly, as soon as you upload it.

But the results may look subpar if you don’t prepare your document first. I’m grateful to Dave Chesson at Kindlepreneur for sharing the following information on how to prep your Microsoft Word file to convert cleanly into an ebook file. Although it won’t have all the…

But this is for real

Comedy Women in Print Prize is its third year and is the UK and Ireland’s first comedy literary prize (and only? can’t think of another).

There are TWO prizes:
Comedic Published Novel
It needs to be published in a physical format between 2nd March 2020 and 28th May 2021 to make it eligible for CWIP 2021. (Self-published book aren’t eligible, I’m afraid.)

Here’s the rest of the criteria:

• Female (identified) authors including non-binary over the age of 18 on 28 May 2021
• Written in English
• Published in the UK and Ireland
• Book must be comedic in style or content, although a wide range of witty and funny styles of comedy will be considered
• Submission must be made by the book’s publisher using the form on the competition website
• A PDF and two copies of the novel to be provided at the first submissions stage…