[stylist] Excited to have my first novella published!

[Myrna Badgerow]

I was about to say exactly what Atty did! You go girl!

Myrna

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> On May 7, 2014, at 8:52 AM, "Atty Rose" <attyrose at cox.net> wrote:
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> It says you be rockin' girl!
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "April Brown" <aprilbrownshade at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 5:38 AM
> Subject: [stylist] Excited to have my first novella published!
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>> 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.
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