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Well, toaday gets interesting as I work on "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers"

First, last night I figured out formatting  . . . mostly.  I'll actually do my formatting by hand simply because it gives me more control than the unsurety of using new conversion tools.

And I got an inquiry by someone wanting to do a review, which is awesome, though I'll have to make sure they get something in a reasonable format.  More may be pending based – email is coming in all the time.

So it's accelerating towards October 4th.

Next up, putting a few things in order, and then running the final conversion for ePub and Kindle, and then PDF.  I do PDF last because ePub and Kindle conversions help me find any last errors.

So, here we go . . .

– Steven Savage

With the book taking a lot of my effort and sanity, I'm going to take a break from this for one week.  Sorry 😉

– Steven Savage

8 Days until "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers" is out!

So today, I ask myself – how I'm going to move to eBooks.

PDF?  Easy.  Open Office does it a treat, compatable, simple, effective.

ePub or Kindle?  Well now we get into crazytown.

As noted earlier, Lulu and Amazon now allow one to convert documents, which sounds great, except I would have to learn new systems.  And test the results.  And possibly redo things. And . . .

I went through conversion engines a few times, and beyond Smashword's Meatgrinder, I'm not exactly happy with them.

But . . .  well I have to look at them in case.  To see if they'll work.  If they'll make things easier (especially at Lulu, which has expanded their eBook opportunities).  Just to be sure.

The odd thing is that this is easier because I like to write, so I'm always tweaking things or putting books out.  I'd hate to think what'd happen if I did this, say, yearly.  I'd go through rampup each time.

So, onward, I got some conversion packages to examine . . . you know.  In case.

– Steven Savage