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Post by Pru Freda on Apr 13, 2015 9:31:42 GMT -5
Thanks, Andrew. Got it in the UK.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 12:30:27 GMT -5
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Post by Daniel on Apr 23, 2015 16:45:41 GMT -5
Welcome back, Andrew! We missed you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 8:52:19 GMT -5
Welcome back, Andrew! We missed you. Thanks, Daniel.  As you probably heard my absence was neither planned nor voluntary. Pneumonia, but I've got it beat… almost. |
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Post by Daniel on Apr 28, 2015 12:28:12 GMT -5
Welcome back, Andrew! We missed you. Thanks, Daniel. As you probably heard my absence was neither planned nor voluntary. Pneumonia, but I've got it beat… almost. I did hear about that, and I'm glad you are feeling better. I understand it takes quite a while to get it completely out of your system. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 13:29:18 GMT -5
I did hear about that, and I'm glad you are feeling better. I understand it takes quite a while to get it completely out of your system. Thanks, Daniel. Well, the pneumonia itself is easily taken care of with a cure of antibiotics, but then the alveoli (small air sacks that "capture" the oxygen) have to heal/regrow. The scientific jury is still out whether that is at all possible. That process could take weeks, even months. There is a silver lining, however. During the first week of the pneumonia I hadn't smoked. I read on most sites that withdrawal symptoms are most severe during the first week, and I hadn't even noticed any. Probably masked by being so miserable. Anyhow, since the worst was behind me, I decided to quit completely. Haven't had the slightest impulse to smoke again. It's been over two months now… And I lost 5 kilo (10 pounds?). This being said, I can't recommend pneumonia as a cure for losing weight or quit smoking. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 10:23:20 GMT -5
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Post by lindymoone on Apr 30, 2015 8:27:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the book tip, Andrew. Glad you are feeling better and that you quit smoking, too. That's how my husband quit, finally -- too sick to smoke for a month, and just never went back. It wasn't the first time; he'd quit for a year once, but this time it's been three years plus.
My mother also quit as a result of pneumonia. But don't sell your success short or give all the credit to the illness, because there are people out there who turn off their oxygen and go for a smoke.
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Post by Alan Petersen on May 10, 2015 18:53:47 GMT -5
Saw this on the KBs: Book Reviewer Yellow Pages. It's free for a few days. amzn.com/B00X5YTXQ0I just downloaded it, so I haven't gone through it, but the look inside looked promising. A comprehensive directory of book reviewers. |
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Post by ameliasmith on May 11, 2015 15:01:44 GMT -5
I'll check that out. Not having a huge amount of luck with my most recent review-getting efforts (though it looks like I have a new 5* on goodreads today! Yay!)
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 16:04:12 GMT -5
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Post by lindymoone on May 19, 2015 1:55:26 GMT -5
Oh, well, "No Agoraphobia Allowed" let's me out...
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Post by Pru Freda on May 19, 2015 2:51:47 GMT -5
Oh, well, "No Agoraphobia Allowed" let's me out... Yeah, I've never liked goats, either. Um...unless that's angora... |
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Post by lindymoone on May 25, 2015 0:46:31 GMT -5
I have "Angora"phobia, too!
(Allergic.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2015 20:51:52 GMT -5
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Post by elephantsbookshelf on Jul 16, 2017 9:46:41 GMT -5
As a relative newbie to this site (well, an infrequent poster, at least), it was fun to find this thread. I've found a couple tips that are really promising for me here, even if most of the books aren't free any more. I especially liked the workflowy demonstration. I may try that since I have a new manuscript in the works.
Along the lines of free stuff, I'd like to add scribus (http://www.scribus.net), which you guys may already be familiar with, but few writers over here seem to know it. It's basically an open-source version of InDesign. I use it for doing the book design for all my books now.
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Post by Suzy on Jul 16, 2017 10:29:12 GMT -5
As a relative newbie to this site (well, an infrequent poster, at least), it was fun to find this thread. I've found a couple tips that are really promising for me here, even if most of the books aren't free any more. I especially liked the workflowy demonstration. I may try that since I have a new manuscript in the works. Along the lines of free stuff, I'd like to add scribus (http://www.scribus.net), which you guys may already be familiar with, but few writers over here seem to know it. It's basically an open-source version of InDesign. I use it for doing the book design for all my books now. Thanks for the tiip! Do you use it for paperback formatting too? |
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Jul 16, 2017 15:05:28 GMT -5
Cool. I'm going to take a look at it. I've managed between using Word and Acrobat Pro to get pretty close to the same output as InDesign, but the one bit that's missing from that combo is a really effective alternative for orphans/widows. InDesign lets you nudge margins and alter kerning much more precisely than Word, and Acrobat is really only helpful for removing page numbers and headings where I don't want them. I am probably missing a lot of what Acrobat can do, but it's very clunky and the only good use of it that I can see is the one I bought it for originally which was to make fill-out-able forms for online use.
Thanks for the tip!
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Post by djmills on Jul 16, 2017 19:18:36 GMT -5
I wrote Creating Print on Demand Interiors & Covers using Scribus 1.4.1 :-)
and use it for layout of every print story before publishing on Createspace (and in future in Ingramspark)
The chapters are free as blog posts on my writer site if you want to check them out without purchasing. However, there are not as many images or exercise steps in the blog posts as in the published version. :-)
"https://djmills.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/creating-print-on-demand-interiors-and-covers-using-scribus-part-1/"
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Post by elephantsbookshelf on Jul 23, 2017 6:23:54 GMT -5
I use it now for all my paperbacks. I'm using Calibre to transfer manuscripts into ebook forms (EPUB and mobi). If there's a special tool within Scribus to help with widows and orphans, I haven't found it yet, but I go through the book a couple times and address them in the process. I'll admit that I sometimes change the text to kill the widows and orphans and then have to make sure I change it in the manuscript I use for the ebooks.
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