Dragon Space: New SF Omnibus from Jeffrey A. Carver - Page 2

caleb72 · 05-29-2011, 01:19 AM

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.

starrigger · 05-29-2011, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by caleb72

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.

ChaosInc · 05-30-2011, 08:28 PM

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.

ChaosInc · 05-30-2011, 08:33 PM

Check your email, please.https://www2.mobileread.com/i/smilies/biggrin.gif

starrigger · 05-31-2011, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ChaosInc

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.

starrigger · 05-31-2011, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ChaosInc

Check your email, please.

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.

rdjack21 · 06-03-2011, 10:40 PM

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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Krittika Goyal · 06-04-2011, 09:20 PM

@starrigger:
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.
Krittika

starrigger · 06-05-2011, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by rdjack21

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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Great! Tell your friends! Please!

starrigger · 06-05-2011, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Krittika Goyal

@starrigger:
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.
Krittika

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.

Jeff

rdjack21 · 06-05-2011, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by starrigger

Great! Tell your friends! Please!

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.

starrigger · 06-06-2011, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by rdjack21

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.

Telling strangers is even better!

rdjack21 · 06-15-2011, 06:50 PM

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.

starrigger · 06-16-2011, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by rdjack21

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.

starrigger · 07-06-2011, 12:04 AM

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!

05-30-2011, 08:28 PM	#18
ChaosInc Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 31740 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Washington State Device: iPaq 3800 series	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. Last edited by ChaosInc; 05-30-2011 at 09:45 PM. Reason: 2 posta can say it all, but perfer one.

05-30-2011, 08:33 PM	#19
ChaosInc Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 31740 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Washington State Device: iPaq 3800 series	Check your email, please.https://www2.mobileread.com/i/smilies/biggrin.gif Last edited by ChaosInc; 05-30-2011 at 09:47 PM.

07-06-2011, 12:04 AM	#30
starrigger Jeffrey A. Carver Posts: 1,355 Karma: 1107383 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts, USA Device: Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus, Droid phone, Nook HD+	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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05-29-2011, 01:19 AM	#16
caleb72 Indie Advocate Posts: 2,863 Karma: 18794463 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Kindle	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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rdjack21 Groupie Posts: 153 Karma: 3241792 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Elocity A7, Nook STR, Galaxy Nexus	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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Krittika Goyal Vox calibre Posts: 412 Karma: 1175230 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony reader prs700, kobo	@starrigger: 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. Krittika

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rdjack21 Groupie Posts: 153 Karma: 3241792 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Elocity A7, Nook STR, Galaxy Nexus	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.