Re: Yours truely is a published author! WOOHOO!
 

Ah, self-publishing. Gotta love it. Just remember not to get yourself ripped off by the PoDs. Nobody wants to pay $24.95 for a trade paperback. :)

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Congratulations! Please add and promote it at http://www.librarything.com/

(fwiw: http://www.librarything.com/profile/qgil )

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Congrats and hopes it's a success for you!

Re: Yours truely is a published author! WOOHOO!
 

Good on ya, LR. I have thought time and time again about trying my hand at writing, but never got off my butt to do it. Great to see you have done it.

In the area of promotion, have you considered releasing the audio through http://www.podiobooks.com? A number of successful authors (e.g. JC Hutchins, Scott Sigler, Basil Sands) have used this venue to make the audio available and created a fan base that way. In fact, if you go and check out an old episode of the Linux Link Tech Show, they interviewed Scott Sigler and he said the same thing.

--vr

Re: Yours truely is a published author! WOOHOO!
 

VulcanRidr, well, I have the audiobook I did for it from the old rough draft, and I made it myself so it's not really all that professional. But if that's good enough to help promote the book, then I'll happily go do it. :D

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Nice one! Looks interesting, I just finished 1984, this looks like a good read whilst supporting a fellow tableteer :)
Also, I hate saying this to a new author... but 'truly' has no e :p

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Yeah, that's called fat fingering. I do that a lot when typing. ^_^;; That's why I love spell check. :D

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As a podcaster, I can tell you its not that tough. You'd be amazed how professional you can sound, a cheap sound board plugged into your computer, maybe a little background music, the odd sound effect now and again...You should go take a listen to some of the books on there, especially some earlier vs. later books of some of the authors. BTW, the TLLTS with the Scott Sigler interview was 277, and is available at http://www.tllts.org/dl.php?episode=277

Also, I was pretty much brain-dead on my last post, if you want to create an FBreader-friendly version, I believe you can use Plucker do convert. I don't know what format you were using, but I believe it will even convert from PDF to PDB, and I know it will do nested pages. I mainly use it for web documentation, and I can set it up to drill down through tables of contents, etc, and follow links. You have to be careful with that, as it is not very difficult to try to catalog the entire internet (sic) into a .pdb. :)

--vr

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Cool, thanks. Oh, btw guys. Book 2 of this series is already starting the process towards publication and, baring anything unforeseen, should be available either just before, or just slightly after Christmas. And if I can ever get a chance to write here again soon (too bloody much stuff to do! Augh!) I'll have book 3's rough draft completed. :D This is a series I'm really rolling along on. The proof reader for book 2 said he liked it a lot, and commented that it's a bit more involved, which just goes to show that this series is already helping me get better, which was its end goal. :D

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Have you tried http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
I think the best choice for ebooks is the .epub format.