[stylist] Excited to have my first novella published!

[Applebutter Hill]

Hi April,
First of all, congratulations on publishing your first novella and getting
it out on Smashwords and Kindle. As far as all of your screen reader issues
vs., your ability to format ... Maybe you're just a formatting savant.

Did you sign up with Smashwords for the Scribd service? I think people pay a
monthly fee to have access to any book, and authors get some kind of royalty
based on how many times their book is read. They just started, and they gave
each of us a free year's subscription, so we can read each other's books.
Donna

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of April Brown
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 6:38 AM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
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.

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