The Nuclear Method for Smashwords Authors

By Emma Wayne Porter

Having trouble passing AutoVetter? Is your book's formatting FUBAR? Can't make it into the premium catalog?

As promised, this guide walks users through the mysterious Nuclear Method, step by step. This beautifully destructive process blasts away latent Microsoft Word code, leaving your text squeaky-clean and ready for conversion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emma Wayne Porter
• Release date: Dec 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781465916693

Emma Wayne Porter

Published author and former editor-in-chief Emma Wayne Porter started out as one of digital publishing's mouthiest detractors. Then she tripped, hit her head, and finally got it through her thick skull that digital publishing is the marriage of her two favorite things: books and computers. After years of observing and participating in the industry -- and bullying her gaming buddies into writing conversion software -- she's decided that ebook production is way more fun than writing blurbs, proposals or, quite frankly, author bios. Emma is currently working on a number of author support projects, including The Nuclear Method walkthrough(s) and a self-editing guide written especially for fiction authors publishing digitally. Visit Emma at http://emmawayneporter.wordpress.com or http://facebook.com/emmawayneporter

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THE NUCLEAR METHOD

A Step-by-Step Walkthrough for Smashwords Authors

Emma Wayne Porter

Published by Emma Wayne Porter at Smashwords

Copyright 2010 Emma Wayne Porter

Smashwords Edition, Licensing 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 recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Table of Contents

PART I: Intro

PART II: Process Overview

PART III: Prep Work

PART IV: Bombs Away

PART V: Reconstruction

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PART I: Intro

WHY BOTHER WITH THIS?

Microsoft Word buries tons of crap in its document files. These invisible landmines can cause files to fail Smashwords’s AutoVetter and MeatGrinder.

The nuclear method is a drastic, extremely destructive process that strips away old, bad code. Nuking takes time and patience, but might just be the only way to salvage code-bloated files.

HOW DOES NUKING WORK?

The nuke itself is a simple three-step process:

1) Copy the entire Microsoft Word file.

2) Paste