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Old 05-29-2011, 12:19 AM   #16
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God - how complicated is it to follow the Smashwords style guide so that you don't get any problems?

It really sounds like a nightmare to me.
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Old 05-29-2011, 01:21 AM   #17
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God - how complicated is it to follow the Smashwords style guide so that you don't get any problems?

It really sounds like a nightmare to me.
It's not so much that the style guide is onerous as that it's heavily dependent on Word's style sheets. It's really easy while working in Word to have styles proliferate and overlap, and if you don't really pay any attention to it--which I suspect most writers don't--you can have a manuscript that looks the way you want it, and not even know that you've got a snake's nest of styles beneath the surface. I suspect that books that get scanned in and OCR'd suffer this in spades.

The suggested way to deal with it in SW is to nuke the whole manuscript: strip out all formatting and just add back in what you need, which in many cases is nothing more than a bit of italics and centering and bold. This isn't terribly hard. My problem stemmed from the complicated formatting some of my books have (usually having to do with alien or direct-link communication). I wasn't thinking about ebooks at the time, obviously. So I chose to impose order on what I had, rather than going back through it line by line. It worked pretty well in the Chaos books. Not so easily in the Star Rigger books.
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If you need any help, I am available to do so, any 'type' you need at this point, (is a joke, but I can type, sometimes...?), I think I still have all the original files of EE on my laptop, in fact I am 99.998% sure I saw them just last week. Would not be hard to get just bolds and italics either in a rtf. Or do you need a .html or .doc file? Still can do it easily enough. Let me know.
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If you need any help, I am available to do so, any 'type' you need at this point, (is a joke, but I can type, sometimes...?), I think I still have all the original files of EE on my laptop, in fact I am 99.998% sure I saw them just last week. Would not be hard to get just bolds and italics either in a rtf. Or do you need a .html or .doc file? Still can do it easily enough. Let me know.
Thanks, but Eternity's End is all fixed now, and new files up in the various stores. I appreciate the offer, though.
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Old 05-31-2011, 01:06 AM   #21
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Thanks so much for the files of "Love Rogo"! That will definitely help me get that one up sooner. It looks very nice. Thanks for doing that scan for me.
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Just finished the first book of the omnibus and Loved it! I'm looking forward to the next one which I should start tonight .
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I added this latest ebook to open books. See http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/by/...ffrey-a-carver
Let me know if there are any errors. thanks.
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Old 06-05-2011, 12:58 AM   #24
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Great! Tell your friends! Please!
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I added this latest ebook to open books. See http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/by/...ffrey-a-carver
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Thanks, Krittika!

The only thing about the listings is that the "publisher" entries are misleading. Really, you're listing one store where each book can be found. The books listed as published by Baen, for example, are actually published by E-reads, and Baen happens to be one of the places where you can buy them. The books listed as published by Smashwords are actually published by Starstream Publications (my own imprint), and Smashwords is just one of the places they're available.

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How about strangers? I was browsing B&N the other day and as we readers tend to do started talking to anther browser and mentioned your book to them. Not sure if they will get it or not but you never know. Oh yea they had a Nook Classic under their arm so they can read it.
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Telling strangers is even better!
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Well I finally found the time to finish this book off and WOW just loved it. A whole different take on Dragons! I guess now I'm going to have to get your other Omnibus The Chaos Chronicles and give it a read as well.
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Well I finally found the time to finish this book off and WOW just loved it. A whole different take on Dragons! I guess now I'm going to have to get your other Omnibus The Chaos Chronicles and give it a read as well.
Thank you! That's wonderful! I'd be deeply grateful if you could take a moment to rate or review it wherever you bought it. Since it's a new "title," it doesn't have any reviews yet.

I'm glad you liked it, and I hope you like whatever you go on to next.

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25% off during Smashwords July sale!
For the month of July, you can get Dragon Space and Eternity's End for a quarter off at Smashwords. Just use the coupon codes that appear on the books' pages. It's my July Star Rigger sale!
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