[stylist] Excited to have my first novella published!

[Atty Rose]

It says you be rockin' girl!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "April Brown" <aprilbrownshade at gmail.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 5:38 AM
Subject: [stylist] Excited to have my first novella published!


> Good morning.
>
> I am so excited to have my first novella published.
>
> For the last year plus, I have struggled with trying to get training to 
> help me through my vision loss.  I tried various screenreaders on Windows. 
> They bogged it down so bad that I couldn't even check my mail.  And I 
> never did manage to figure out how to get one to work.
>
> So in December I bought a Mac, since I was told VoiceOver was easy and 
> intuitive.  Five months later, and I still can't duplicate any set of 
> instructions I have written down.
>
> It is too complex, and I can't duplicate directions the following day no 
> matter what I do.  And there are no step by step manuals.  Lots of "Rah! 
> Rah! You can do it!" No steps.   Yeah, I know how to turn it off and on. 
> That's the only command that mostly works.
>
>    I was concerned about Monday and preparing my novella for Smashwords 
> and Amazon.
>
> After all, if I can't figure out how to use a basic screen reader that any 
> blind person with no computer training can use without thinking, how could 
> I ever hope to do something so complex as publish a novella?
>
>    How much trouble did I have?
>
>    I had to try a second time with the cover for Smashwords.
>
>    That was it.  It was a breeze otherwise.  Less than two hours. And that 
> counted the time to reformat based on Amazon's directions.
>
>    What does that say about me?
>
>
>
> April Brown
>
> Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.
>
> aprilbrownwrite at gmail.com
>
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