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    Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100
    Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100
    Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100
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    Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100

    By Ray Mathews

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    Learn to lay out your book text.
    You can do this with Word for Windows.
    And at Createspace and Smashword, there's help available for your book layout.
    Do you have any artistic ability?
    Don't fret. Here too, Createspace can help
    You with their free cover design package.
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    You can do it, too!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRay Mathews
    Release dateOct 16, 2011
    ISBN9781465816252
    Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100
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    Ray Mathews

    About the Author:Ray Mathews is a former IBM Senior Engineer and inventor whose curiosity led him to write mysteries, thrillers, westerns, children's books in prose and verse, non-fiction books on Bridge, Personal Finance, Painting, Model Railroading, and more.He and wife, Sally, have three children, two grandsons, and live in Raleigh, NC.Books by Ray Mathews include:The Golden CrowsA Fetus Is MissingBilly the Kid: The HoaxFinding BrucePreviously Dead8 Christmas StoriesThe Book of Rhyming StoriesBubble ShipNomadsTales for BoysGrowing Up and Other StoriesNON-FICTION BOOKSHow to Expand Your Painting WorldYour Nest Is Your Nest EggSelf-Publish Your Book for Under $100Suit Bidding with the Jacoby and Stayman ConventionsThe TilTable BookA Baker's Dozen True StoriesFly Paper for Kids

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      Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100 - Ray Mathews

      Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100

      And Other Ideas

      By Ray Mathews

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      Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100

      And Other Ideas

      The Road To Book Publication

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      Write for goteachit.com

      Write for a Book Packager

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      To the love of my life, Sally, my wife, who paves the way for me every day with her care

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      Self-Publish Your Book for Under $100

      And Other Ideas

      A Non-fiction book

      by Ray Mathews

      Cover Art by Ray Mathews

      Raymond Mathews, Publisher

      Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is coverless, it may have been reported to the publisher as ‘unsold or destroyed’ and neither the author nor the publisher may have received payment for it.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced without permission of the author.

      Published by Raymond Mathews at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2011 by Ray Mathews

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person with whom you share it. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it

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