After I received my edited copy and my clean copy, I now had to format my book’s content. I had read a lot about formatting and I thought that I could accomplish it by using Pages and a document template that KDP supplied. I finish formatting, and I try to bring it over to the template, but it does not number correctly, and I cannot alternate the headers, the author and title names at the top. I mess around with it for quite some time, but it just is not cooperating.
The one thing that I do not want to do is publish a book that looks unprofessional. So, I decide to go back to Fiverr and find someone to format the content as well as do a cover design. I had a lot to choose from, but I decided on this one freelancer based on her great reviews and her project samples she offered. It was going to cost me a lot less money to hire someone to do this for me than if I had to go through a hybrid publisher. I was making progress, or so I thought. Was my problem solved? No.
The formatted content was sent back to me, and it was all wrong. There were mistakes, and the numbering was off. I sent it back to fix the errors, and it was still wrong. I tried a third time, and there were still mistakes. She kept sending the cover that I could not open because it was not a JPEG and I asked for it over and over again. She finally sent it in the correct format, and it was terrible.
She said that she would fix everything and apologized for the delays because there were severe weather conditions at her location and the internet was in and out much of the time. Meanwhile, I could see the work in her queue being completed and new ones being added, while mine just sat there. This went on and on for weeks, and unfortunately, I had to ask Fiverr for a refund. Now, I was back at square one. What to do next?
Sheryl Hunting, Author of Children's Books 
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