It’s really, really tempting to get fancy when designing your eBooks. I mean, there’s all sorts of nice things that you should be able to do. Even in […]
I Want Your Vote (On What Song I Should Publicly Humiliate Myself With)
The ENnies had a wonderfully silly idea for raising money. Publisher Karaoke. Well, folks, Eighth Day Genesis has been submitted for an ENnie1, which makes me eligible to […]
Hey… want to win a signed copy of my book BEFORE you can buy it?
Why yes, this book: srs steve is srs. This is a GoodReads giveaway for a SIGNED advance/proof copy of Kicking the Habit and Other Stories, my first collection […]
(The Lack of) Cross-Device Consistency in eBook Previewers
Cross-device compatibility is of the biggest problems facing eBook creators today. While working on a conversion for a client, she was complaining about the “box” around the scene […]
Welcoming Our Robot Overlords (and how it’s not economic ruin)
The news of a teachable industrial robot that costs less than many cars doesn’t have to be scary. That’s for the same reason why outsourcing isn’t necessarily scary. […]
Write How You Like, but Know How Other People Do It Too
I usually write in plain text. A space between paragraphs. No indents – not by tabs, not automatically, and not by hitting the space bar 3, 5, or […]