KayTi,you've done this more than I have. I'm still waiting for Premium status from Smashwords. In order to use their MeatGrinder program, I pulled all of my Brull stories into Scrivener, which has its own editor, and then after I finished edit after edit after edit, I uploaded it to MS Word. That produced a very clean manuscript. Then I edited and edited and edited, still finding error after error after error. I put in a table of contents, that was a bit tricky and fiddled with some formatting and published. Then I published a draft and published a draft and published a draft (six in all) until I got a product that was reasonable.
I think the key thing is to practice, if you're doing it yourself. Someone on Hatrack used Scrivener to create a .mobi file directly. I'll try that next.
There are some technical issues, but I passed Smashword's 'Auto-Vetter' each time, so the Word to Scrivener to Word technique worked well.
It's now a marketing challenge, which I will address in the coming weeks. I'm building a Brull story line in Twitter (@BrullofThura) and will need to do some work to drive followers. I also set up a Guy Antibes website (that's a pseudonym 
) at http://www.guyantibes.com I've got some WIP that I have to get into shape, but it is publishable (self-publishable) in the near future. Two novels to go before the end of the year.
I think beginning writers have to have a bunch of content in order out there in order to generate any reasonable return.
It will take time.
Have you done any marketing yet, KayTi?
[This message has been edited by Owasm (edited September 27, 2011).]
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