One Down…

[ursulav]

I spent today in the bowels of the beast, by which I mean Amazon and Smashwords. Most of the Amazon time was spent trying to figure out how I tell it that I don’t want to be exclusive to Kindle and just hitting “Save” until it told me it was in review and I couldn’t poke anything any more. I guess that’s how that works.

Theoretically the Goblin

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[mmegaera]

[thinks back to own first self epubbing experience, two years ago]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[law_nerd]

Um... entirely not a wolf of any variety ... and it's not particularly freakish, but it is somewhat disconcerting that the .RTF version on smashwords goes into small caps at irregular intervals.

[ursulav]

Thaaaaat is a new one on me. Hmm. They don't even have a section on that being possible in the formatting guide. I will see what I can find, but I can't promise I'll be able to fix that?

[ursulav]

I've checked the RTF version I've got and can't find any small caps. Uh...you have stumped my troubleshooting skills! This may be one for the e-reader...

[law_nerd]

Likely just Word weirdness.

If anyone else runs into the same thing, it's easy enough to select all, and in the fonts section turn on small caps for everything, then turn it off for everything. That gets rid of 'em nicely.

And, damned good story. Awesome to be running into a character who I'd not expected to see again in your fiction.

[alicephilippa]

*Looks at smashwords HTML preview*

Spots tyop on page 7 (a notably that probably should be a notable) and that Chapter 2 is repeated as chapter 3.

Otherwise had troble stopping giggling. :D

[ursulav]

Oh, fuck my life, really?

[ursulav]

Fixed the chapter problem. Thank you so much for pointing it out--hopefully only a dozen people or so will have to re-download it.

To my mild horror, however, I cannot edit the Amazon version until it is live. *vague weeping*

[alicephilippa]

Oh heck. :(

That's pretty well pants on the part of Amazon.

[jayblanc]

Just treat the wolves the same way you treat people circling around your table at a convention. Gently guide them towards buying some stickers.

[jeriendhal]

You think that's fun, wait until you try to get Amazon's POD service set up. I'm still trying to figure that one out.