From Blog to Book 2: Too Easy
The author is on delivery of a Catalina 32 and hopefully enjoying a giant, juicy prime rib right now safely in port in Cartagena. See his current position via SPOT tracker. He will respond to comments as soon as he finds a 3G or Wi-fi signal.
Soon after my whiny post last time I had a breakthrough. Of course, I disregarded all of your kind advise. In my previous post, I mentioned a WordPress plug-in called Anthologize which I could not get to work. I tried the plug-in again and was able to work around it's many bugs and turn selected blog posts into books. I am an author. In fact, I have published two books available for purchase via Kindle. As I write that sentence, I cringe.
See, I have entered the spam genre of books where any random grouping of poorly formatted non-sense can be mashed together into an e-book and published to Kindle. While Amazon does verify your book, apparently their standards are pretty low. My books have no covers, chapters, or front matter. If you haven't seen these types of books, I expect you will soon as the barriers to publishing disappear. Publishing an e-book has taken me less than three days of my time, and I have not had to pay one cent. While there are kinks, the process is almost automatic.
I am an author, but my work is far from done. Victoria commented as much last time. You think once you have written all the content you are basically finished. Instead I feel maybe two thirds there. You will not find any links or advertisements to purchase my books. I need to take a serious look at who I am as a writer and what I want to say. There is an intrinsic permanence to a book. I can always change a blog post, but a book must be processed, submitted, and verified.
The Anthologize developers say they are releasing a new version of their software soon. With that, some soul searching, and editing to fit, someday soon I hope to be a "real author" with art that I am proud enough of to share.
Ever wonder the story behind the wooden schooner on the New River between Little Florida and the Wiggles?
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