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Posted in Publishing, Release, The Hounds of Annwn, To Carry the Horn, and Works
I'm happy to announce that To Carry the Horn is now available in paperback. See the link to order.
I'm still having difficulty with Google Play and may have to give up on that channel even if I finally get it working properly, because I understand that their propensity to discount ebooks arbitrarily may trigger the same behavior from Amazon to match the price, and I can't have a book seller making that decision for me; discounting needs to be my decision..
Posted in Publishing, and Release
You can now buy the Kindle version of To Carry the Horn on Amazon, and the other retailers will clock in as soon as they approve the uploaded files. Got my first customer already! Thank you very much, whoever you are.
UPDATED – I'm live on Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords, too. The proof of the trade paperback version arrived yesterday, so as soon as the Library of Congress gets its act together and sends me the CIP (Cataloging in Publication) data for the copyright page, that should become available in about two weeks.
Also got my first review, from a stranger, on Smashwords. 5 stars from a satisfied reader! Whoo-hoo!
Posted in Just for Writers, and To Carry the Horn
I've been done with To Carry the Horn since the middle of September. Just waiting for one last bit of information — the Library of Congress CIP (Cataloguing in Publication) block of data for the copyright page — which should arrive in the next few days. After that, whoosh — up go the files for the ebooks and the trade paperback.
Just to give you a little flavor of what that's like…
1) Complete the manuscript (I use Scrivener). Output a version for Word. Use Word to do preliminary global changes. Call that “CleanWord”.
2) Use Word to make a marked up version destined for HTML. Use an HTML editor to make an absolutely clean version as a source for eBooks. Call that “CleanHTML”.
4) Use CleanHTML and Calibre to create the EPUB for Barnes & Noble and Kobo and the MOBI for Amazon. Load the EPUB file onto your ereader and proofread like mad. Three times. Make all the corrections to the Scrivener manuscript, the modified CleanWord, and the CleanHTML files. Note: i am spared doing my own upload to iTunes for Apple because one of the tools needed is a piece of software that only runs on a MAC. (Thank you, Steve Jobs.) I'll have to let Smashwords distribute to Apple.