Basic Manuscript Formatting Tips
Energion Publications has produced a booklet on some basic use of styles to make manuscripts easier to convert. The book is available both in print and in ebook format.
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Energion Publications has produced a booklet on some basic use of styles to make manuscripts easier to convert. The book is available both in print and in ebook format.
As part of launching my aer.io bookstore, I’m doing an ebook giveaway. In fact, I may do more than one. We’ll see. As things progress, I’ll be discussing technical aspects of setting up and using an aer.io store and selling many books, both technical and not so technical. If you’d like to learn from my…
Some time back I wrote a post about grocery shopping in which I said: Grocery shelves are not arranged for your convenience. When I first started shopping for a family, rather than for one, I also noticed how often grocery shopping took me on inconvenient routes. I also notice this when I shop at…
This was about a 15 minute project. Nothing exciting in the way it’s set up, but getting a simple thing like this ready in that short a period of time is one of the great values of Adobe Spark. I have Creative Cloud, so can get more sophisticated (within my limited design abilities!) with other…
In using OpenOffice Writer for preliminary work on manuscripts I often need to replace large amounts of formatting, mainly eliminating areas in which writers have used character formatting and replacing them with consistent use of styles. The native search/replace is not very good for this. There is an excellent solution, readily available: The AltSearch addon. …
Those of you who have books to publicize, as I do, may be looking for ways to do so and possibly earn money as you go. I have been a Powell’s Books partner for some time with very little success. My books are listed there, but I have not made commissions. Recently, however, Powell’s opened…
I created this to humorously introduce a new book. It was done with a bit of Adobe AfterEffects and the rest with Adobe Premiere Pro, but it didn’t require anything complex along the way. The voice, with all its faults, is my own! If interested, you can learn more about the book at Energion Direct.