"Kyras-Camera-High-Dive 061" by flickr user JoshSchulz
I spent the holiday weekend making a mess on our dining room table, and after much tweaking and pixel-pushing and fishing around for compliments, I pulled the trigger: One Last Quest is purchasable, at least electronically. That's one small step for (a) man, one more leap for the Typosphere. (Just following in Mr. Speegle's footsteps, here.) Now I sit back and recoil in horror at all the typos that slid by undetected.
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Can't sit for long, though. I'm already reading through the formatting guide to upload directly to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Formatting for Smashwords is very particular, and I hope that I can use the same file -- or a slightly tweaked version -- to handle the other two sites. And then I need to figure out if I'm going to resurrect the print version that I proofed oh-so-long ago.
The only scary part is the jump...
13 comments:
Impressive carving and nice layout!
Its a good, fun story, so your readers will be happy. Granted, I'm probably your ideal reader (i.e. typewriter enthusiast, Nano participant, writer, fantasy roleplayer, fantasy reader)...not sure you can find a better fit than that for your book:)
Good luck on your distribution and sales!
Love the Edward Gorey-esque sensibility of the cover carving. :-)
@notagain & @Ledeaux: thanks! The cover was fun to put together, once I figured out what I wanted to do. There was only a wee pit of Photoshoppery for placement and scale.
@deek: You, and a thousand other people like you are the sort I want to find. I have no problem with niche audiences. I'm pretty "niche" myself.
Very artistic cover design! I look forward to reading your e-Tome.
Cool! Great job on the cover design.
I like it! Very creative.
That'll do, Mike. Well done.
Thanks for the kind words, all. And Rob, special thanks to you for the notion of staying flexible. I'm a bit of a rigid thinker when I get an idea in my head. I had to let it go, and I'm happy with the result.
I bought my copy, even having read it during the editing process. FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE, INTERNETS.
Ooh, I love the cover! Nicely done!
(verif words: struth and onuble. "Verily, that cover rocketh! 'Struth, onuble Sir Clemens!")
I'll check it out in more detail later. Congrats!
Love it, Mike. Print - oh yeah. I've made a solemn vow never to read a digital book.
I hear you, Duffy. I plan to clean up my paper version and make it available that way, too. I need to have a copy to send to mom, after all.
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