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I created my first full romance book with BookNova AI — based on my real-life story, characters and experiences.
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In this video, I go through the final formatting and customization before publishing. I choose the 5×8 romance format, generate an AI book cover, customize the typography, back-cover blurb, author bio, copyright page and AI disclosure, then generate the final book files.
The final result is a 138-page book, generated with AI and ready to be prepared for Amazon KDP. I also compare the information generated by BookNova with what ChatGPT suggests when it already has the full context of my story and characters.
This is more than just an AI writing experiment — I'm actually turning the project into a real book series.
In the next step, I'll take the finished book toward publication and build the sales page.
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created a whole book using booknova
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artificial intelligence and it was so
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easy. Now let's format the book. Let's
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go deeper into the customization we can
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use for our book. So the book generation
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took a few minutes actually less than 10
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minutes and now to customize it further
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we have first of all to tell them where
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will we publish these books because it
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depends what will be necessary next. So
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do we publish on Amazon KDP? Do we
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publish on other platforms? Do we use
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for personal only? In that case, we
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don't need much. We just need a cover
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and to generate the PDF. In my case, I
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will publish on Amazon KDP
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uh only as an ebook for now. We'll see
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about paperback later. But then we need
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a title page. We need a copyright page.
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We need a back cover blurb. And we need
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an ISBN slot to identify the book. And
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we need to select a size. So we have
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different sizes and depending on where
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we publish we can choose different uh
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sizes. Well not they are the same but
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the print format will be crucial for the
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PDF generated and the EUB. Epub is the
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ebook uh file format. So we can use 6
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by9 the universal standard which is good
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for fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller,
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self-help, business. It's the best
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format at the moment. It's also 152x 229
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mm. We can use the five by 8 romance
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standard. This is what I will do here
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because I am creating a romance. So it's
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mostly used for romance, dark romance,
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and novelas. The signature size, we can
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also use the A5 European standard.
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uh German, Austrian and Swiss trade
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format and what most print shops expect.
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So here I will use the Roman standard.
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But as we did previously, I will still
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just ask uh chat GPT what it thinks just
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to confirm
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what I should use and let's see if it
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agrees with me that I should use the
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romance specific
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specific format because again in Chad
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GBT I have the whole history backstory
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about my book about my characters and it
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creating the
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uh all the information I need to then
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generate my book to put all the context
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into the right format. Exactly. We need
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to use the Romans standard. That's
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perfect. And it even explains us why.
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All right. So, we chose already the
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Romans standard. Now, we can design our
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cover.
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So, we can generate a cover with
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artificial intelligence within the tool
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in seconds. We don't need to go to
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another tool. Everything is included in
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book Nova link is in the description uh
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yb.digitalbook
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or we can pick an existing template and
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just tweak the test the text. So we have
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already our working book title which is
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uh between us somewhere we have already
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the author name I gave it earlier in the
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book generation process. Now we can also
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give it a subtitle
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um or a series book number. So this
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actually we want because it will be a
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series and we need an name K. So much
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the Jean style all caps as typed or
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lower case. So here the author let's say
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we will keep Michelle.pinson but again I
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will ask Chad GPT to validate this. So
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let's go and ask again chpd. So chpd
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helps us to fill in everything necessary
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because I spent a lot of time giving
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giving it context. Um
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all right subtitle Michelle Pinson
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story. Now one question why use this
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name and not use the handle that can
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then be used to find directly the
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related Instagram the related Tik Tok
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accounts that are backing up the story.
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I will ask this to chat GPT. Why
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username Michelle Pinson and not the
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handle that directly
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uh works on social media?
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Just a question. Maybe it is better like
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this.
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Okay. So Michel Pinson like the
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character's personal name and
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traditional author name. Um
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okay. So if the objective is brand
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continuity and social media
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discoverability then it would change to
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Michelle.pinson. Okay. But I don't like
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it because we don't really know. But it
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means
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it means uh a social uh social but okay
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let's put Michelle.pincson. Let's see if
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it works. It seems to work now. It gave
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us a subtitle. A Michelle Pson story.
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That's fine. series and book number
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Michelle Pson book one and author case
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as typed title case. All right. Now we
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can generate the book cover. So here we
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have several options. We can generate
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with AI by describing what we want and
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letting the AI creating the book cover.
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We can upload our own if we design it
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elsewhere or you can use a template and
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they have plenty of templates available
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to choose from. Just need some time to
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load with my slow connection. It takes
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some time. All right. But here we will
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generate with AI
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and um what we will do we will select
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the visual style and again I will ask
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uh I will ask
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Chad GPT to answer this for me. So each
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book cover generation cost some credits
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of course should be aware of that. All
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right. Now, visual style, photo,
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realistic. That's good. Title,
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lettering, elegant, high contrast,
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serif. Mood, romantic.
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Color palette, we want the sunset.
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Uh, people on the cover, we want uh
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Michelle Pinson and Nadia.
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And then we should give it a custom
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prompt.
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So here we can use it here.
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All right. Advanced. We did not have any
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advanced settings. So here we can
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override the prompt and change it. We
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can also upload some pictures.
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Um so let's do it. This is the front
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cover for Kindle ebook but not for
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paperback. All right. Let's try to
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generate a first cover. So this is AI
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generated. The text is not editable and
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each generation cost credit. That's
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fine. And let's check the tip. Write the
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final title and author name into the
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cover text fields above before
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generating. That's what will appear on
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the artwork artwork. Okay, got it. Let's
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generate. It is generating. Usually, it
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only takes a few seconds to generate a
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book cover. So, let's see how fast it
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is. Today, we gave all our instructions.
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I'm just afraid maybe because Chipd also
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put in the prompt to write some text.
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Maybe the text will appear twice. No, it
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won't. Oh, wow. This is beautiful.
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Actually, between us somewhere, Michelle
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Pinson story, we have our subtitle on
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top. Here we have the author name. Okay,
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the characters are whoever they are. It
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doesn't really matter because I did give
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a picture of myself to the character
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Michel Pinson. And here it's another
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picture, but that's fine. Let's not stop
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there. Of course, you can um you can
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then regenerate. You can do better. And
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uh all right. So now we have our book
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cover. Next step is to choose our fonts
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and size to control the printed interior
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text. Uh again I will ask JPT what's
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better for my book to keep the
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consistency
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as it knows again the whole context.
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Body font Laura. Of course you can
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select everything yourself. Default
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Laura body size standard 11
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line spacing normal paragraphs indented
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text alignment justified table of
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contents none
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why uh no table of content
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I don't know but okay let's follow what
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GPT uh tells us we are trying to
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generate this full book by AI so just
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the context is based on one real story
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But everything else is AI generated. The
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page header should be book chapter
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chapter headings should be number only
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dashes space and dash. All right. Then a
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back cover which is required for KDP for
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uh Amazon paperback. This is what
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readers see when they pick up the book.
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Uh first step I will not publish it as a
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paperback but anyway I will uh I will do
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all that. Uh now we need we need a few
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more information and let's see what JP
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tells us. So we need the book blur
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description three to five short
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paragraphs. The hook on Amazon's product
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page comes from here. It can also
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autogenerate. So let's try maybe to
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generate it with this AI and we can see
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it fills the the back cover perfectly
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actually. It's pretty good just compared
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to what um we are given here. Uh so of
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course it's totally different. Okay. So
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here I have the choice. I can use uh
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what was uh what was proposed by the
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tool by booknova or I can use what gave
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me uh gave me. I will keep what booka
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gave me because uh book noa is optimized
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for book generation and chbt not really
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now let's see the author bio he would
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not invent a conventional author
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biography for Michelle since it's alo
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social media persona make the bure
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reinfor the character brand Michelle
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Pinsang is a French international
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consultant traveler and storyteller
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whose life is shaped by airports
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unfamiliar cities and unexpected
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encounters through his stories he
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explores modern relationships,
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attraction, freedom, and the beautiful
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complications of being human.
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All right, why not? Let's uh see now
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what um here bookn Nova will generate
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because Booknova does not know my
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context. Probably here I will reuse what
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chat GPT gave me. Michelle Pinson
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evocative pros delves into the unspoken
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currents that shape our lives and
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relationships with a keen eye for the
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human heart. pinson craft stories that
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resonate long after the final page in
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stern. I don't like that. So here I will
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use what chat GPT provided.
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But now unfortunately
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um this bio is too long. Uh and as we
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can see here on the on the preview then
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the blur description is too long as
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well. So this is all too much. I have to
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find what to do. So I will ask Chad GPT
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to make a shorter bio. This is far too
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long.
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Okay. Now it's only one two sentences.
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Is it better?
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Yes. And now it is better. It is
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fitting. Then for the ISBN, the book
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identification number, we will use the
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free KDP ISBN. It will be assigned. The
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barcode will be assigned. uh to the book
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when we upload the book on Amazon.
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Also,
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um we can print the ISBN. Yes, we want
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to print it on the back. We can choose
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the primary J tag. It is romance and uh
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back cover layout. Keep it clean. That's
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fine. We are done with the back cover.
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We have a very nice back cover. Next,
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copyright and front matter. the
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copyright page that prints just inside
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the cover. Amazon expects one on every
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book. For a private book, it is
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optional. So here, of course, we want a
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copyright page. Author name
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Michel.pinson copyright year 2026
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uh independently published first edition
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and fiction disclaimer include the
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standard fiction disclaimer. names,
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characters, businesses, places, events,
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locals, and incidents are either
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products of the author's imagination or
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used in a fiction manner. Yes, that's
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the case. Then we need to disclose AI. A
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Amazon KDP requires authors to declare
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AI assisted content during upload
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including a short note on the copyright
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page is best practice. So here we can
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choose between recommended auto.
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Portions of this book were created with
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the assistant of generative AI tools
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which is the case. We can use our custom
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wording or make no disclosure. But here
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the book was totally generated by AI. So
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we will leave this recommended auto
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u auto AI disclosure. And then we can go
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even further. We can do a dedication for
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example to my mother to whoever. So we
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can dedicate the creation the book to
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anyone we want. And we can also add
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acknowledgements to anyone we want. We
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can also uh need um we can add an about
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the author version. So here maybe I will
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do that
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because I have uh I have context for
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that. So why not add it
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actually proposed to put more details.
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So here this is nice. Michelle. Ppinson
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is a French international consultant,
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traveler, and storyteller whose life has
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taken him across countries, cultures,
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and countless unexpected encounters.
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Always curious about people and places.
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He draws inspiration from the
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conversations, connections, and
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relationships that happen between
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destinations. His stories explore
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attraction, independence, vulnerability,
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and the strange, often beautiful
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uncertainty of modern relationships,
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between airports, hotel rooms, and
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unfamiliar cities. Michelle has learned
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that the most memorable journeys are not
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always the ones that take you somewhere
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new. That's good. But I also want to add
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that you can find
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um ad about finding
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Michelle
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Pinson on
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Instagram, Tik Tok,
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Facebook
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at Michelle Pinson. So here's the place
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to say that actually the character
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really exist and you can uh you can
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follow him on social media. Here we go.
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Oh, it can also generate from profile.
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Let's just try to generate from profile
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and see the difference between what was
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generated by Chajibility which knows my
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context and what was generated generated
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by booknova which does not know me. So
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Michelle Pinsson is a storyteller
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fascinated by the quiet. Okay. Uh
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yeah, actually this has nothing really
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to do with me. It's very generic, but if
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you don't have a background, your own
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background as a as an author, you can
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use this autogeneration. It's pretty
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good, but it doesn't have enough context
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in my case because I have real context.
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And here we have a live preview of the
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copyright page.
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All right, we can also use a custom
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copyright copyright page will not do
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that here. The standard one is fine and
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it mentions that we did use generative
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AI tools. All right, it is now ready to
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generate the book. So the content has
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been created and we did the last step
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which was to format our book. We can now
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generate the files and um once these uh
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files will have been generated so a PDF
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uh neub and the docx we can download
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them and use them anywhere we want and
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here we go. So it starts at the front
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matter with no cover page because Amazon
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prints the cover separately and we
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mentioned that we want to upload on
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Amazon. Uh so uh if we need a copy with
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with the cover on it u the EUB and DOX
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downloads both include the cover. All
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right. So here we have our book. I will
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publish in another video a voice over
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reading the uh book. But here we have
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our full book generated by AI. Uh it is
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in total let's see how many pages it is.
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So many pages. So here we go at the last
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page which is the about page. It has 138
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pages and we can download the book in
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various uh various formats. So to upload
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on Amazon here we have the file for
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Amazon. Let's just download the PDF
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uh just to have a look. I think the PDF
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will maybe not have the cover. No, the
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docx should have the cover. Anyway, we
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can we can download everything.
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So, let's see here. We have the PDF
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file. Now, PDF file is the one we are
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seeing right here. But the doc x, so the
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word file should have the cover. Let's
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just double check that.
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Let's see. Takes always some time. And
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here we go. Yes, the doc x file has the
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cover. Here's my first romance book
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based on my life
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um created. Wow. Okay. It's amazing.
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It's such a milestone. I I'm so ecstatic
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to have my own first book generated. So,
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let's close it. The book has been
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generated. Uh and the next step will be
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to publish on Amazon uh or elsewhere and
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to create a sales page. Um, so thanks
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for watching and try BookNova. YB the
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digital slashbook.
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