has anyone had a problem with submitting to Smashwords?

[lovecraft68]

I am just finishing up one more chapter for an e-book and once it's edited will be ready to submit. In the meantime my editor has a few stories he wants to put up as short e-books in the $2.99 range. He was telling me today that he had to submit the first one three times and each time there was a problem in "translation" as each time he got it back some of the quotation marks and apostrophes had turned into different symbols and he would have to go through it again. Just wondering if anyone here has had or heard of a similar experience. The story I am putting up is 75,000+ words and it's a little frightening to think I may have to "go through it" several times. Honestly he has sent me doc's before that I have had difficulty even opening so I'm hoping it's something to do with him. Figured I would check here.

 

[evanslily]

If you read the Smashwords Style Guide and follow the instructions to the letter, you won't have a problem.

I've uploaded 3 stories now and not had a problem with any of them.

ETA: It takes a while to go through each one and sort the formatting, but it took me maybe an hour to adapt my original Word document (70,000+ words) into something that 'Meatgrinder' would accept. I suppose to some extent, it'll depend on how 'clean' your original document is.

 

[lovecraft68]

If you read the Smashwords Style Guide and follow the instructions to the letter, you won't have a problem.

I've uploaded 3 stories now and not had a problem with any of them.

That's good to hear. Might just be him then. Thanks for the reply!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

They do allow you to use either a first line indent on a paragraph or block style (Lit uses block style - so a transition should be easy) but not a mixture. For just smashword distribution they do allow a mix of styles, which seems funny, but for their distribution channels either/or is the key.

I have submitted two myself, others or mine where done through eXcessica or Fido, without a hitch. Like evanslilly said "If you follow their style guide you shouldn't have a problem."

 

[amicus]

Lovecraft....my 2003 edition of MS word gave me problems so I hired a formatter. If you run into problems, she is very reasonable and does excellent work, PM me if you would like her addy....

ami...

 

[lovecraft68]

Lovecraft....my 2003 edition of MS word gave me problems so I hired a formatter. If you run into problems, she is very reasonable and does excellent work, PM me if you would like her addy....

ami...

It appears this is also my editors problem he just told me today-when i said no one here had issues- that he is using word 2002. SW I think says 2007 or newer. I have 2007 but he is doing my edits in his 2002 and sending them back I hopefully can just find their style in 2007)traditional etc..) and fix this myself. Thank you all for the help.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I use Word 2007 but save all my work in Word '97 compatibility mode. I have had no problems what so ever. If you are using the .docx extension, change it to a .doc extension and save.