The LionheART Guide to Formatting is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to formatting books for Kindle, ePub and paperback in Word for independent authors.

Karen Perkins of LionheART Publishing House has formatted over a hundred books in the past year alone and explains in a simple and clear manner, with the aid of over 100 screenshots, how to format your manuscript in Word, and uploading your finalised files to the most popular sites: Kindle Direct Publishing, Smashwords, and CreateSpace.
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The LionheART Guide to Editing Fiction: UK Edition is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to editing fiction for independent authors.
Karen Perkins of LionheART Publishing House has helped over a hundred books come to publication in the past year alone, and whilst there are numerous comprehensive grammar guides out there, it is not always that easy to pick out the elements that are most useful to us as authors of fiction.
'This guide is for authors who want to be intimately involved in every aspect of their book. I wanted to compile a tool which is simple, easy to use and...

The LionheART Guide to Editing Fiction: US Edition is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to editing fiction for independent authors.
Karen Perkins of LionheART Publishing House has helped over a hundred books come to publication in the past year alone, and whilst there are numerous comprehensive grammar guides out there, it is not always that easy to pick out the elements that are most useful to us as authors of fiction.
'This guide is for authors who want to be intimately involved in every aspect of their book. I wanted to compile a tool which is simple, easy to use and...

A full-length historical adventure novel in the Valkyrie Series of piracy, love and revenge in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century by international award-winning author and ex-champion sailor, Karen Perkins.

Leo is born in Spanish Panama in 1659. When he is twelve years old he witnesses the violent rape and murder of his mother by three of the Caribbean's most feared pirates: Tarr, Blake and Hornigold, and swears revenge at all costs.

Gabriella is trapped in an abusive marriage to a ruthless Dutch slave trader, who is in business with the same English...

Silver Medal Winner, European fiction - 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards

A haunting historical thriller set in Britain's North Yorkshire Moors about isolation, superstition and persecution, The Haunting of Thores-Cross explores 18th century life in a picturesque but isolated village in the North Yorkshire Moors. But when a vulnerable young girl is ostracised within her community and accused of witchcraft, the descendants of her neighbours will suffer for centuries to come.

"This is the most well-researched, intense and spookiest book I've ever...