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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mkellis

November 24 2011, 18:27:23 UTC 5 years ago

Suggestion: get in touch with Tobias Bucknell. He's apparently made something of a specialty of late learning about the best way to do ebook conversions. He'd also know about interfaces to various publishers if you need to know that.

(Might as well tug on those Scalzi contacts where needed.)

seanan_mcguire

November 28 2011, 17:41:46 UTC 5 years ago

I don't want to do it myself. I want someone to do it FOR me.

mkellis

November 28 2011, 19:41:41 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, perhaps I wasn't clear here. I believe he has a sidelight in actually doing these sorts of conversions. Not as in 'will tell you how' but as in 'will do them for you for a fee' or at least be able to tell you who does that sort of work.

seanan_mcguire

February 18 2012, 16:51:57 UTC 5 years ago

Excellent. I found a guy, though. ;)