Keep your home healthy and save a fortune Filter out the wrong advice: What really works? What doesn't? What's safe? What isn't? As the Cleaning Guru for The Guardian's Weekend Magazine for many years, Stephanie helped hundreds of readers solve their impossible stains and household cleaning catastrophes the healthy, non-toxic way. Read 100+ of the best of her household tips. And much, much more... Includes: The Housework Hater's Healthy Quick Cleaning Guide - top tips to keep your home environment healthy and clean, saving you both time and money. So what about the vinegar? Many useless home remedies are recycled on the internet over and over again. This book recommends the best uses for vinegar, baking powder, lemon juice etc. What really works? What doesn't? And what's likely to cause more damage than cure? Put baking powder on your carpet, for instance, and you could be left with a permanent pale stain. Non-toxic stain removal - The Knowledge. Unique guide to the simple code that teaches you the quick, easy way to identify and treat stains instantly. Read once and you'll never have to refer to a stains chart again.

A guide to ebook publishing on a budget which takes the reader gently through every stage of the self-publishing process: from copy editing and proofing to the simplest, most robust, free ebook formatting method and on to sales, social media and publicity tips. Written by a non-techie journalist and author of mainstream-published fiction & non-fiction who has been there, on a very tight budget, and made many mistakes so that the reader doesn't have to. Whilst this book is aimed at the complete beginner, there is an additional techie chapter by IT man Mark Binner for those who wish to explore ebook coding further. "A fantastically brisk, snappy and practical guide. I love the step-by-step and hand holding nature of the instructions for the techie aspects!" *****Thriller author Louise Voss, Kindle #1 Ranking Author, over 100,000 copies sold "I'm 83 years old and technically naive as far as computers are concerned. I strongly advise anyone wanting to 'Kindle' their writings to buy Stephanie's book. I did and it saved my sanity. Fantastic." ALAN GRAINGER "This is an excellent do-it-yourself book on how to write for e-books.Follow the instructions and you will succeed, It gives you the incentive to write. " US university professor "The Bible of Ebook Publishing," "Good Grief, This Book Has Absolutely EVERYTHING!" "Stephanie Zia has specifically targeted the writer wanting to publish on KDP, iBooks, etc., with a well constructed layout of short chapters taking the writer throughout all the essentials, from preparing the manuscript to uploading and promoting the final book. An excellent introduction for the beginner wary of the many pitfalls of self publishing." "I have read quite a few books on formatting and this one is the best yet, really it is quite outstanding and I would recommend it as Must Do (reading) for any eBook author (or newbee)." 'Great, great book. I can't understand how I could ever have managed my way through the ebook process without it..' ***** Apple iBooks reviewer Contents: Copy Editing Copyright and Copyleft Why There's No Need to Get Confused by all the Different Ebook Formats Libel Titles, ISBNs, Legal Notices and Disclaimers Self publishing on Smashwords, Apple iBooks, & More Self publishing on Amazon Kindle & Kobo Why PDF is still useful With Print On Demand Paperback Tips Why You Don't Need Page Numbering A Beginner's Guide to Hyperlinking How To Hyperlink Chapter Headings & Make A Clickable Kindle Table of Contents Check Your Links Using Photos Online And Inserting Them Into Your Document How to Make Or Commission an Ebook Cover How To Find Affordable Artwork & Free Royalty-Free Photos/Images How To Make An Ebook Cover Different Photo Sizing For Covers, Documents & Publicity Final Touches Publishing to Adobe PDF Final Proofread How To Set Up Security on Adobe PDF Converting to Kindle Mobi & ePub on Calibre & Loading Your Ebooks To Amazon KDP & Publishing On Kobo How To Fill Out US Tax Forms For Non-US Authors (And so stop 30% being deducted from every sale) Selling Ebooks From Your Own Website The Arguments For And Against The Best Free Web Builder sites, incl the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress. org/mobile-phone friendly/easiest to use Turning Pro - The Mistakes to Avoid If You're Offered a Print Book Deal How to Grow Your Sales How To Grow Your Sales Through The Roof Mark Binner's Top Techie Tips & Tools For Advanced Formatting Appendix For Alan (Age 83) - The Complete Beginner's Step by Step ABC of Word Doc to Kindle Ebook

A collection of extracts from the books of the popular travel writer on France Susie Kelly. In 'Travels With Tinkerbelle, 6,000 Miles Around France In A Mechanical Wreck' the author and her husband devised a simple plan - to take a tent and the dog and drive around the perimeter of France. Like many simple plans it went wrong before it started... In Best Foot Forward, A 500 Mile Walk Through Hidden France, Susie walks solo from La Rochelle to Lake Geneva with a tent on her back whilst her Texan friend Jennifer struggles by on her first ever trip to France, looking after Susie's smallholding and caring for a menagerie of animals. In The Valley Of Heaven and Hell - Cycling In The Shadow of Marie Antoinette, novice cyclist Susie dons unflattering lycra to cycle the little-known Marne Valley and Champagne regions of France. She takes the identical route taken by Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI when they tried to escape from the Revolution, and their journey back to their executions. In Swallows & Robins, The Guests In My Garden, Susie stays at home for a change. As the world's worst housekeeper, running holiday homes wasn't, with hindsight, a sensible idea. But two collapsing buildings on her land would cost more to demolish than to restore. Thus she became a seasonal landlady and, along with the assorted guests, came Ivy into her life, The Cleaning Lady From Hell. In her memoir, I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry..., the setting moves away from French travel to a childhood in 1950s/60s Africa. With uncompromising honesty and hints of her usual humour, Susie describes emigrating, from post-war London in every shade of grey to the technicolour splendour of Kenya, as part of a dysfunctional family. A US Amazon Paid Top 100 bestseller.

Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Tim Salmon was the author ofThe Rough Guide to France, therenowned travel bible of France for the independent, savvy traveller. For 15 years, as he travelled the length and breadth of the country, the idea for his own, personal journey gradually took shape. It would be nothing to do with cathedrals and history and railway timetables but a subjective, intimate look at the country he had been married to and grown to love and know so well. It would be a slow journey on foot, but he couldn't decide on a route, until, one day, he came across an article about the old Paris meridian line. RenamedLa Meridienne Vertefor France's millennium celebrations, it runs from the North Sea at Dunkerque to the Spanish border. That's it, he thought: there's the route, a virtual line from nowhere in particular to nowhere in particular, passing, with the exception of Paris, through nowhere in particular. It would bring what it brought. He would see what he saw. This book is the diary of that walk. An intimate and charming day by day account of what he saw, heard, thought: landscapes, flower girls, snippets of history, curious encounters and lots of birdsong.