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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ladymurmur

November 23 2011, 18:32:21 UTC 5 years ago

Here's hoping that if someone can convert it to ePUB, they could also convert to MOBI - my kindle does not speak ePUB. :-(

This would, however, be an awesome reason for me to finally learn how to use Calibre's format conversion tool, if I needed to. So it is all good! :-)

(FYI - At last check, there were more requests for Discount Armageddon than my local library has on order! I'll be buying my own copy, thank you, but I love haunting the library statistics.)

seanan_mcguire

November 28 2011, 17:39:28 UTC 5 years ago

Once I have the initial formats up, I figure if anyone wants to do additional conversion, I can let them make that happen. I can't guarantee every possible format with a freebie.

ladymurmur

November 28 2011, 18:33:16 UTC 5 years ago

Nor should you! So long as it is DRM-free, conversion, as I've now learned, is apparently quite easy and quite legal. :-)