Pottermore!!
So, last night I got in to Pottermore finally! The email came, followed by a few hours where it kept telling me the site was too busy. THEN it showed the screen...
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Magic University back-to-school week… Day One!
So the big one is coming, the finale of my Magic University series. Yes, Kyle has reached his senior year, but before he graduates there’s a lot to doR...
Google Analytics on the Daron's Guitar Chronicles web serial
Here’s a post for those of you interested in how weblit and serialized fiction work on the Internet. So, now that August is over, I’ve been looking ...
Got my hotel room for Ascendio 2012!
The online reservation system is open for hotel reservations for Ascendio! Details are here: https://ascendio2012.dreamwidth.org/1041.html The con hotel is the ...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #6
DIGITAL BOOKS VERSUS PRINT BOOKS All the previous posts in this series have been about producing printed books, especially trade paperbacks. But now let’s...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #5
Before I get to today’s topic, I just found out that John D. Berry’s ebooks on type and design are free for download: Dot-Font: Talking about Fonts ...
Hurricane has largely missed us…
So yesterday the rain started exactly at 2pm, when the first of the very outer bands of Hurricane Irene reached us. Around 3pm was the worst, when it was so dar...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #4
Let’s start with hyphenation today. USE HYPHENATION: DON’T AVOID IT I see a lot of small press books where they try to solve the problem of a word p...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #3
Ok, now we get to the real stuff that no one tells you. Let’s say you’re using Quark or InDesign, you’ve flowed all the text of your novel or ...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #2
Okay, so you’ve decided you’re going to design and typeset your own book. The first thing to note is that I have never come up with a way around nee...