Sojourn ready for formatting

[mmegaera]

I spent most of today giving Sojourn its last read-through.  So, finally, my “highway patrolman crashes his car out in the middle of nowhere and winds up in the local equivalent of Brigadoon” story is ready for formatting!

Another week or two and I will be announcing publication, I hope.

Mirrored from Repeating History.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Yeah, it was acting weird like that for me, too, but I thought it was just because I was experimenting with the one in Russian which it won't actually let me make available. *ptui* Try changing the extension to .txt instead of .html, opening, then fixing back to .html? (Or how did you make yours work?)

[mmegaera]

I didn't, unless you count uploading it a second (third?, fourth?) time. I must have been holding my mouth right that time [wry g].

And this is why I really hate technology. I want to know why it works or doesn't work so randomly. I want a solid, understandable reason for each bloody time, darnit!

[archangelbeth]

Yeah, the error that I was having -- where the formatting/tabbing/whitespace around certain short paragraphs (short one-sentence ones) was getting mucked up -- was VERY annoying. Though consistent, at least. (Till I fixed the HTML. O:p )

And people say the Smashwords Meatgrinder is annoying! O:p

[mmegaera]

I've had far less trouble uploading to Smashwords than I have with Amazon. [shrug]

[archangelbeth]

*hi5s solemnly* That's about my experience, too. Plus Smashwords tech support tends to be a bit better than Amazon's, if slower, usually.

[mmegaera]

Precisely. I do wonder about all those people who complain about Smashwords's meatgrinder on their blogs, though.

[archangelbeth]

I can never quite fathom what they are complaining about. Lack of ability to play with kerning? Font selection? (It's MY book, as a reader! I control the font! I control the size and spacing! ...okay, not if it's An Interior Life, where font was a large part of the thing and used in some cool ways, but everything else? MINE. My eyes, my reading, my font-control. Gitcher little authorial fingers outta my text.)

Meatgrinder has some necessities, but, lords, I've done worse for less money, and work-for-hire into the bargain!

[mmegaera]

And even Smashwords will let you directly upload an epub nowadays, so if you're *really* anal, you can have it exactly as you like it.

[shrugs again] I just don't get it, either.

[archangelbeth]

I suppose if I realllllly wanted to have art in the interior of the book, or such, but... Meh, so many different screen shapes! Why bother? A little minimal attention to detail and get out of the way of the reading!

Which is to say, Yeah. O:/

[mmegaera]

It was even easier to add photos to the chapter headings for Cross-Country in Smashwords than it was in Amazon. The meatgrinder didn't chew them up and put them right where I wanted them. I had to jump through half a dozen hoops to get Amazon to do the same thing.