Jaye Em Edgecliff's Blog, page 14
July 25, 2014
Dropping Kobo support
Kobo eReader (Photo credit: ndh)
I like supporting various e-readers and their associated services. It’s, frankly, not usually very difficult.
Sadly, Kobo has decided to make it so. For no reason I can fathom they do not accept ePub files that even the most exacting alternatives accept without question and that work on their App (I don’t have one of their devices so have no idea), won’t accept a MOBI file that Amazon took no issue with, and does very strange things when fed a raw .doc/.docx fil...
July 19, 2014
Ready or Not pre-orders
Well, it’s finally done with my editor. A quick proofread by me and some arguing with the various retailers, then the book will be available.
Smashwords and iBooks allow pre-orders, though it is not yet listed with Apple. Smashwords is another story.
I’ll have the first two chapters up for samples sometime in the next couple of days.
The release is scheduled for 26 July. Even if Apple doesn’t get the pre-order set up before then, the book ought to be available for purchase and download by then.
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July 12, 2014
The end is in sight!
First off, my editor should be done withReady or Notin the next 3 – 5 days. As soon as I get it I’ll be setting up pre-order on iBooks and Smashwords (the only outlets that allow it) for about 1 – 2 weeks later (it takes a bit of time for Apple to process the upload, they run pretty thorough quality checks on the file to make sure it won’t make your iPad spontaneously combust or something) during which time I’ll give it one more read through and buff.
I’m truly sorry this has taken so long. Sa...
July 2, 2014
Celebrating July
English: Fireworks on the Fourth of July (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s July. Ready or Not will be out this month (depending how horrible some of my mistakes are between here and the end of the book — a few days to another week or two!) and my birthday all in the same month!
To celebrate thisLove or Lust is free, everywhere I can set it to free, all month. Amazon should set itself to free automatically sooner or later (I don’t have control of the price below 99¢); Nook doesn’t like the word fre...
June 14, 2014
Love or Lust • 50% off
Love or Lustwill be on sale for half-off (ebook only) starting today and running through the month.
Filed under: Updates & News Tagged: E-book, Love or Lust, Now & Forever, Sale
June 11, 2014
New estimate
Ready or Not is coming along pretty well, not as quickly as I’d like or had hoped, but it’s not as far off track as I’d feared.
To be frank it’s got rougher edges and so is needing a more thorough polish thanLove or Lust did, as well my editor is taking things a bit slower this time around because she’s terribly embarrassed at some of the errors that managed to still be in the first book despite her editing.
That said, book two could be out as early as the anniversary of the first book. The mor...
June 7, 2014
English is so annoying
There’re really times I wish I could do my writing in Latin instead of English.
In Latin it’s so much easier to be clear who or what things refer to because there’re different sets of suffixes for accusative and nominative, to say nothing of the existence of the genitive, ablative, dative …
Why does English have to lack that sort of clarity of grammar? It makes writing any sentence where two people of the same gender are interacting with one another terribly awkward and cumbersome, truly.
Relate...
June 3, 2014
Rad Fem and the things we learn …
My but what a fascinating education I’ve got recently.
My recent reblog about a trans lesbian being treated rather poorly by a cis lesbian, blah blah blah, let’s all be nice to each other (Cliff Notes version) … Well, the auto-twit about it got replied to by a group/blog – I’m still working out just who/what this is –@GIDwatch(sensitive and kind hearted souls may wish not to follow that link) calling me a “rapey prick pushing #cottonceiling”. I had to look up cotton ceiling which lead me to di...
June 2, 2014
Representation really does matter
Jaye:
Role models are important.
I think any character can be identified with by any reader/viewer/listener, but every now and then it’s nice to encounter one you can truly relate to on a personal level.
Originally posted on A Transgender's Journey:
Ellen DeGeneres (Photo credit: ronpaulrevolt2008)
So I didn’t really have much to say last week. Partly I was just a little down, partly I just couldn’t get any kind of thoughts in order, and finally I just don’t think I had a whole lot to say.
This ti...
“The New Civil Rights Frontier”
I’ve been thinking very hard about something recently.
Time magazine has been receiving a lot of flak for calling trans the next civil rights frontier of America. Even I criticised this on my Facebook page. But while therewere numerous other reasons to criticise the article, I believe this is one thing it was dead right on; albeit I think it’s the new worldwide issue, not just America. There may be legal recognition of 3-5 genders in parts of former Persia and in India and Thailand might have...
