[stylist] Fantasy prompt

Mon Apr 22 20:17:29 UTC 2013

Donna,
This is all so EXCITING!
You have to be so busy, yet, so very happy as well. And, you should be.
I think I did not get the things you mentioned either, as I am sure I would 
remember them.
But, I have been so busy the past couple of weeks with a house full of 
company, that I may have deleted things when I tried to do the catch up.
I often miss things.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I am so happy for you and I know this is just 
the first step in a new direction for you.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Fantasy prompt

> Chris,
> Thanks for your comments. I'm surprised I didn't catch the exclamation
> marks. I usually have an aversion to them. I'll have to check that out.
>
> I'm running around like a mad woman with different things to do for a half
> dozen different versions of the book. The Bookshare version's out and the
> Kindle is ready to upload, once I'm satisfied with my 4000 character 
> blurb.
> I have to make some changes for Nook and Smashwords: I included URLs for
> everyone who provided a recommendation quote, and one is for Jerry 
> Whittle's
> new novel Slingshot, which is on Amazon. Anyway, the other e-book 
> publishers
> are touchy about any links that lead to competitors. Jerry has it on Nook
> now, so I can use that one, but the others don't want either of them.
> Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have his own website, so I'll have to 
> use
> a link to an old article.
>
> You can edit the eBook files once they're uploaded -- I'm assuming it is 
> not
> accessible and that Rich will have to do it. What I ended up with from the
> e-book formatting service (Fiction Works) is one MOBI file for Kindle, an
> epub version which I could use for several, but will probably only use for
> Nook and a .doc for Smashwords, which they convert into a bunch of other
> formats including Blio, Sony and PDF.
>
> I just got the first mock-up for the Create Space POD version on Friday,
> which included the front matter, two full chapters and the beginning of 
> the
> third. I had to make a couple of changes. They have a whole series of 
> steps
> including a questionnaire, an opportunity to upload comments on formatting
> preferences and a telephone conference. I took advantage of all of them 
> and
> my major emphasis was on keeping the page count to 340 . I had originally
> formatted it myself, but decided not to proceed. I had the cover done by
> that time, however, and the spine width was calculated for 331-340 pages. 
> It
> is highly inadvisable to do the cover first, but they assured me they 
> could
> work with that. Anyway, I gave them all of the settings I used which were
> picked from their site, and. There was some wiggle room, but I 
> specifically
> warned them that they couldn't start the text of the first page of a 
> chapter
> as low on the page as they might like.
>
> So, they apparently just do what they do, and not only did they start it
> really low, but they made the chapter titles 22 point. Apparently, they
> don't think about things like how many lines that's going to take up. The
> longest chapter title, which is visually obvious when you look at the 
> table
> of contents, would take up 4 lines in 22 point. Between the huge titles 
> and
> the first page of the chapters starting so low, they already have two more
> pages than I had by the beginning of the third chapter -- there are 54
> chapters, so you can see that this might become an issue.
>
> Anyway, I talked to them again and wrote everything up, so I'm hoping they
> get it this time. The more pages they can make it, the more each copy 
> costs
> the writer, and I think it is reflected in the way they calculate 
> royalties.
> My hubby thinks that all of the questionnaires and such are simply to make
> the writer feel important.
>
> I'm wondering who else may  have my post in their spam folder. You're the
> first one I've heard from at all. I had posted the lyrics to a song a few
> weeks ago and only Barbara commented on that one .
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Kuell
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:26 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Fantasy prompt
>
> Donna,
>
> Sorry I missed this when I was reading other prompt responses yesterday. 
> For
> some reason it landed in my spam folder.
>
> This reads well, and you have me intrigued as to where the kids will go 
> with
> their cloud ship. Very clever. My only words of writing advice are to go
> easy on the exclamation marks. Too many and they lose their impact.
>
> Thanks for sharing, and I hope the publishing process is moving along well
> for you.
>
> chris
>
>
>
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