[M T McGuire]

Hello there, I'm really sorry if this question has been answered already, I have tried to find it but haven't turned up anything so it's likely to be my ignorance of the correct search terms to use...

OK, I want to put a decent epub book up on Goodreads. I have found a number of tutorials as to how but they are mostly from about 1999 so the information seems to be obsolete... it doesn't work and anyway they all finish with my having to use the command prompt and work in dos. Once we reach that level, I am lost and the rest of the project is usually an epic fail.

SO... now I'm trying Calibre. So far I have some pretty decent results converting a short story in word 7 html to an epub file. The only problem is, my cover automatically sizes itself. This means the picture is thin and tall or tiny and fat depending on how I move the edges of the reader. I don't want that to happen when people read my e-book. I want the dimensions of the cover to be locked.

Is there any way I can do that in Calibre? I'm pretty sure I managed it the first time but I haven't found a way to do it since.

I know it's a dunderhead question but if anyone is able to take pity on me and help it would be fantastic. I'm reasonably commonsense savvy about how e-books are structured and what you're supposed to do but I've not really understood how to make one. In short I'm a intelligent but not logical or mathematical so it takes a while to get through to me sometimes.

Cheers

MTM