Hi, this is John Passarella. I am the (Bram Stoker Award-Winning) co-author of WITHER; I'm also the author of WITHER'S RAIN, WITHER'S LEGACY, KINDRED SPIRIT and several books set in the Buffy-verse (Buffy: Ghoul Trouble, Angel: Avatar & Monolith)...I found out about this forum by reading an article on eBook creation by Jeffrey Carver in SFWA's bulletin.
I am releasing my latest novel, SHIMMER (a supernatural thriller) as a FREE serialized eBook (a weekly eSerial) through my Website (2 chapters are out already), so I thought this would be a good place to announce it. Originally, I was going to convert the chapters only into regular PDF format. After reading the Carver article, I decided to also release it as HTML, RTF, tagged PDF, Mobipocket and eReader. He gave enough instructions to get me started on those formats, six in all counting desktop PDF.
The only eReader I have is the Mobipocket reader on my Blackberry, so I can't test/check all these formats. I do have the desktop readers for Mobi & eReader so I can view them there.
Anyway, I'm hoping some ereaders will check it out and let me know what they think. SHIMMER had some brief, intense Hollywood interest, first considered for a tent-pole summer movie franchise, then later in brief pre-development for a weekly TV series, but various circumstances conspired against it... finally, I decided to get the book out to my readers (old and new) via the eBook format, so that I could retain print rights. This book was also part of my contest to have readers' names used for characters in the book. I picked several winners. They'll finally see who their characters are and what happens to them.
You can find the various download formats at
http://www.passarella.com/shimmer.htm and I'll be announcing the release of each chapter on Twitter (free & easy), at
http://twitter.com/JohnPassarella - until the end of March, I'm giving away
a free PDF of my never-before-seen, humorous/horror story "Red Friday" about Christmas shoppers and rampaging zombies to those who "follow me" on Twitter and send me their email requesting the PDF.
The format I seem to have the most trouble with is the eReader format. I'm not sure if you can specify small text (for copyright & legalese stuff) or if you can specify a cover, which you can clearly do in Mobipocket.
Okay, I've rambled on long enough about myself.
Keep reading,
John Passarella
http://www.passarella.com