Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: hopeful
  • Music: Dan Bern, "No Missing Link."

Help needed with e-book formatting.

Hello, internet world!

I have a short story that I'm intending to offer as a free download early next year, to celebrate the release of Discount Armageddon. This means I need the story to be in e-pub format. Anybody got the technical skills to make this for to go? I'll be your best friend, or something (or send you a book, whatever).

It's a pretty short story, about 7,000 words, and will have a cover and an internal dingbat for dividing sections.

ETA: While I appreciate the suggestions, if I had the time to do this myself right now, I would. I do not have time, so I am asking for help. Please stop suggesting ways for me to do it for myself.
Tags: incryptid, shameless plea, short fiction
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moth2fic

November 23 2011, 23:10:59 UTC 5 years ago

If you have any problems, given the timescale, offer it in pdf (you can embed pictures and I assume dingbats). You can easily create a pdf by writing in/copying to Open Office (free) and 'exporting' it as pdf - Open Office does the work for you. Then people with ebooks can use calibre (free) to do their own super-easy conversion to whatever format they need.

seanan_mcguire

November 28 2011, 17:40:33 UTC 5 years ago

"Easily create" and my natural technical ineptitude are not words that go together. Hence my asking someone else to handle things.

moth2fic

November 28 2011, 18:31:44 UTC 5 years ago

If there's a problem with time for other people who've offered - just send it to me in Word or rtf. format, whatever you normally write, in, and I can send back the pdf in an hour or so. Then presumably you can upload that to your website or ask whoever helps you to do it.