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The last couple days
in publishing my work have both been great and frustrating.
My Latest Article On Sci Fi/Fantasy Books and TV
I said a while back
that I sold an article to an online science fiction/fantasy magazine
called BuzzyMag but that it may be a while before they actually
publish it. Well the wait is over! The article is now live. “It’s
alive! It’s alive!” (as Dr. Frankenstein in Universal’s
Frankenstein shouts.) It covers one of the newest trends in
sci fi and fantasy television: TV series based on books in the two
genres. With TV shows like The Expanse, American Gods
and The Man In the High Castle, that are all based on
best-selling or award-winning books, there are many more TV shows
such as these to come in the near-future. I discuss those as well as
past and current shows based on novels in my article entitled “TheTop 10 SF/F TV Series Based On Books” at BuzzyMag. Feel
free to leave any comments either there or here.
“Circa” Print Edition Update: Resubmitting the Manuscript as a PDF File
Speaking
about publishing, an indie author like myself doesn’t really know
or remember how tough self-publishing is until they are actually
doing it. Yesterday when I was trying to submit my manuscript for the
print edition of “Circa Sixty Years Dead” to Kindle Direct
Publishing’s beta paperback publishing
program, I was going through
a series of file types to get the manuscript to lay out correctly.
None of them worked.
Amazon suggests submitting
manuscripts in PDF
formatted files because is
more compatible to the publishing program.
I had been considering making
a PDF version of my
manuscript since yesterday afternoon when I started having the
submission problems but
didn’t have a PDF converter. Or I thought I didn’t.
I
tried searching
the internet for
a free converter that
was recommended by articles
in well-known tech magazines such as Wired
and PC Mag.
Well, it was just this afternoon that I was looking at an
article at PCMag.com
that suggested
Libre Office. I’ve been
using
Libre Office for typing my stories for the last year or so, ever
since Microsoft stopped providing its own Office package with
Windows. However, I didn’t know that it had a PDF converter or
editing tool until I glanced
through that article. I
looked on the file
menu of the Writer software of my copy of Libre Office and, sure
enough, there was an option to convert files to PDF that
was labeled “Export as
PDF”! I clicked on that with the odt (open document format)
file
of my manuscript open and it created a PDF copy.
Now to see if Kindle’s paperback publishing program will accept the
file even
if it’s been created by an
open source program like Libre.
Microsoft Word has seemed to
be the standard for everything
for the last 20 years.
I’ll update you next time and let you know how the PDF file of my
manuscript submission worked out. If next week’s post’s headline
reads something like “’Circa Sixty Years’ Print Edition Now
Available” then that means it worked out.
Until next time . . .
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