Keith D. Jones's Blog, page 15

Journal: ePub Format Plans

Step one of the recombobulation is complete. The Faire Folk of Gideon is now available in HTML, PDF and ePub formats on my website. Sure took freaking long enough.

I'm still nervous about the ePub version. Sure, it looks fine on my computer, using the only free desktop ePub reader I could find. The other one I tested only worked with ePub files that you purchased from that particular ePub reader's store. Probably could have hunted around more, but I managed to find one. Don't want to clutter up the computer too badly with random programs.

So, okay, it looks half-decent. As half-decent as anything in the ePub format can look anyway. Seriously, this is quite the bare-bones format. Oh, sure, you can probably add more formatting, but the problem there is not knowing how many ePub readers actually support more than the most basic of formatting. I'm not going to push the limits. Not anytime soon.

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News: Faire Folk of Gideon Available in ePub Format

The Faire Folk of Gideon is now available in ePub format. I don't have an eBook reader or a smart phone so I can't properly road-test the file. It looks okay using the Adobe desktop eBook reader.

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News: Fixed Faire Folk of Gideon PDF

Yeah, fixed a really embarrasing typo in the brand new Faire Folk of Gideon PDF. How I managed to spell the word "permitted" with two "S" I really don't know.

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News: Faire Folk of Gideon Format Updates

The Faire Folk of Gideon is now available in HTML format and also as a single PDF file rather than five seperate files. An ePub format version will be made available as soon as I can figure out how to make it work. This is part of a long-term plan to convert all three novels to HTML format, combined PDF and ePub formats. Once the freely available versions of ePub format are online, I'll work out how to make a paid version available through Lulu.com and elsewhere as part of my support the author plan.

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Journal: The Tolkien Comparison

This is also from the department of nobody cares but me. Don't expect this to be a trend. Just what I need. Turn this journal into nothing more than a list of things I'm feeling cranky about. I should take comfort in the fact that at least I'm ranting about something rather than just letting the website lay fallow. At least the audiobook is posting on a semi-regular basis again.

I think I wrote about this somewhere, but I can't remember where. I don't think I've written about it on my own little website. This is a problem inherent to having a presence on miscellaneous social networking sites. And, not much of a presence at that. Oh, well.

The thing that gets me about epic fantasy novels and especially epic fantasy series is that they always seem to get compared to Tolkien. This comparison usually takes the form of how the latest and greatest epic fantasy is so much better than Tolkien. Of course, the epics most likely to get this favorable comparison are the long ones. Multi-volume sprawling epics that just go on and on forever.

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Currently reading how much?

You never think about how many different books you may actually be reading or sort-of reading simultaneously until one day you have the bright idea to list them all.

Journal: Deconstructing the Hero's Journey

This is from the nobody cares department. It was simply something I was thinking about a month or two back, and I've finally found the time to try writing it down.

I will, of course, start with a digression.

I didn't know people were still into Joseph Campbell. I thought it was one of those things from the Eighties. There's always something. A trend to follow. Whatever. As permanent as a sandcastle on the tide-line.

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News: Audiobook, Plan E

It's a good thing there are so many letters in the alphabet because I'm burning through them like nobody's business. The current plan is to run Flailing Rebellion a chapter a week until it is done and then drop to a biweekly schedule for the rest of the book. I'm not wild about this idea, but it seems like the best compromise at the moment. A consistent schedule, even biweekly, just strikes me as better than running and stopping and running and stopping. Here is hoping I can maintain a biweekly schedule. Wish me luck.

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News: Sonatina in B-Flat Major, 3. Presto, Score

Finally uploaded the PDF score of the third movement of the Sonatina in B-Flat Major. The Outgrabe for violin and contrabass is next. Let's see how long it takes.

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Stupid, stupid protagonist

I don't actually mind when the characters can't figure things out. When done well, it is a nice literary trick for the reader to know something that the characters do not. I don't even mind that much when the characters have all the information and still can't figure it out. However, it drives me nuts when the characters have all the information and proceed to whine about how they can't figure it out.