Author Archives: Deanne E. Gwinn
Senders Genesis pt2
While working on Senders, I created a collage of pictures to help me focus on the characters and main elements. The collage included magazine and newspaper pictures of people to represent all the characters (including Tommy’s parents, who never appear … Continue reading
Neutrinos Rule!!
Did Kate call it right? Some physicists now claim they’ve timed neutrinos traveling FLS , which, as this article states “would open up the possibility of time travel…” Let the games begin! Now if we could just get Kate to … Continue reading
New Title Added
Just Out: The Senders of Shaula, first authorized edition should be live on Kindle by Friday, Sept 23, 2011. POD paperback will take a few more days. Description: Humorous fiction. Leza wired her printer to the neighbors’ modified satellite … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 15
After the program tells you conversion was successful, be sure to preview it by loading it into the Kindle previewer. Try out all the guide items and table of content chapter links. Make sure you don’t have random blocks of … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 14
Cover Images My books published through CreateSpace have cover images provided by CreateSpace in their cover creation templates. Some of the templates also allow you to upload an image you have created or own. If you have published a POD book … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 13
Make it all html After the manuscript has been formatted to be html friendly, has a hyperlinked TOC, and appropriate bookmarks, ‘Save As’ your file in the format ‘Web Page, Filtered.’ Don’t ask me why. It’s an html thing. This … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 12
Adding Guide Items Ebooks have “guide items” as a way to jump quickly to various parts of the book. At the least, you need to have three guide items: the cover “cover”, the Table of Contents “TOC”, and where the … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 11
Adding a Table of Contents Go to each chapter heading, highlight it, and apply one of the styles (heading 1 or heading 2 are safest). If you right click on the heading style you can select “modify” and make some … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 10
Start formatting Highlight everything and change it all into one of the ebook html-friendly fonts (Verdana, Tahoma, Arial – there might be others.) Insert a ‘page break’ after the last sentence of each chapter. Delete most blank lines between the … Continue reading
Kindle-ing part 9
Take It Out of the Tub Highlight the entire Notepad file and copy/paste it back into a new Word file, then ‘Save as’ this new file as .doc file. (Give it a new name, like initials of book title + ebook ) This is … Continue reading
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