Review: Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson

[ed_rex]

Bias alert: I know Nalo Hopkinson. It would be a stretch to claim a close friendship, but we've socialized and we exchange hugs when we see each other. Had I not liked this novel, I would most likely have noted it here, but otherwise passed it over in silence. I did like it, though - a lot - but think it only fair to let you know the context in

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completely unrelated question

[miyyu]

I would like to start including cover pictures in my book reviews like you have done. How did you get it so that the text wraps around the picture, so to speak, instead of having the picture be above the text? I would like to have my picture be the first thing in the upper left hand corner but have the text begin right next to it and I can't seem to do that. Do I need to add the image first and then begin to write, or is there some html tag that I'm missing?

Excellent book review, by the way. I've been looking for some new, good scifi for a while, I think I'll pick this one up.

Re: completely unrelated question

[ed_rex]

I'm glad the review got you interested - I'm also glad that I also have her The Salt Roads on my shelf.

As for the formatting, it's actually very easy, as per below - but replace an square brackets with "<" and ">".

[table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="238" align="left" style="margin:0px 20px 10px 0px;"]
[tr]
[td style="padding:0px; background-color:#DDDDDD;"][img src="name-of-image.jpg" alt="whatever" /][/td]
[/tr]
[tr] [td][b][small][i](Stuff that goes below the image[i][/small][b]>[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

The key is to put it in a table and make sure the width is defined as the number of pixels in the image.

(Now trying again to see whether the HTML shows up in the reply - if it doesn't, I'll try again.)

Re: completely unrelated question

[miyyu]

Thanks a ton! I thought it might have something to do with tables but I know so little html that I couldn't figure it out.

Re: completely unrelated question

[ed_rex]

This is also a really good reference (though it can be a little intimidating when you're just starting out).