Category Archive: Publishing

Jun 04

How I Make Covers and Promotional Images: the Software

OK. I fooled you.  I can’t actually tell you how I do it, because there is a long learning curve.  However, my intent is good.  This post is a follow-up to an earlier one on self-publishing skills.  I’m hoping to leak this information out a bit at a time so as to not overload newcomers, …

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Aug 13

How Quantum Incoherence Got its Name

Quantum Incoherence is the title of a science fiction and fantasy anthology that I’ll publish eventually.  As for the name, well, if you’re old enough, you’ll remember the song Monster Mash immortalized by Bobby Pickett. I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight. Well, I was working …

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Jun 26

The Burden of a Fertile Mind

Writers, you might want to just skip this post because you probably know what I’m talking about.  Fiction writers, that is.  Those cursed with writing television commercials, greeting cards, and obituaries might have a different experience, but those born with the disposition — some might say congenital need — to invent sundry worlds and characters …

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May 24

HTML and CSS for E-book Self-Publishers, Part 4: EPUB Format and Sigil

Now that we have covered the basics of HTML and at least the language of “CSS” style sheets, we need to start putting that information together.  This installment covers two pieces of the puzzle: the format of EPUB files and the workings of the Sigil EPUB editor.  Sure, they are different topics, but since I …

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May 11

HTML and CSS for E-book Self-Publishers, Part 3: CSS

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This is it, the one I was worried about writing: style sheets.  As a reminder, the XHTML we talked about in Part 2 describes the structure and content of your material and CSS describes how it is presented. I was worried for a couple of reasons, and as I got into writing this installment, I …

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