Continuing to get all of Living Next Door to Heaven released in eBook form. This morning, I've released book 9 (last in the SOL serial LNDtH2), Heaven's Gate, on Bookapy. This is the longest individual book in the entire series at 195,000 words! It was a challenge getting it all reformatted for release.
Next week will be the last of the LNDtH novels if I can get the editing and formatting done by then. This one will be book 10 (SOL LNDtH3), What Were They Thinking? I've been enjoying the series over again, even complete with the tears, as I've prepared it for this release.
Weird things at the South American jungle company. In uploading files for release there, I can no longer get the .MOBI files downloaded as a proof. When KDP displays the link for the copy "to preview on my computer or tablet" it sends me an HTML file as a .zip. It's actually just the ePUB file returned to me and it does not display on my tablet or in Kindle at all. Not sure what they are pulling there, but it seems to be the latest in a long-line of author-prevention "features." When they finally subsumed CreateSpace completely, they started splashing a bar across print copies ordered as an author proof that declares the book as "Not for Resale" so I can't turn around and sell a proof copy. OF MY OWN BOOK! Amazon thinks they own the rights, I guess.
Oops. I didn't mean to say their name.
As a result of not getting converted files back from the behemoth, I'm using Convertio to turn my ePUBs into MOBIs. (Yes, I've also got Calibre. Haven't seen a difference in the output.) I have to admit that the conversions are not up to the standard of the files I used to get. For example, I no longer get drop caps at the beginning of chapters. Also, the table of contents gets repeated at the end of the book with links back into the book. I'm not seeing the chapter hierarchy so that chapters are collected into parts, etc. However, I'm seeing the same problem in the ePUBs I'm currently generating from Adobe products. Investigations continue so that I can produce the best possible quality of eBooks.
I got notice this week that the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) site has opened for writers to post their November project descriptions. Oh, dear! What shall I do???
The answer is obvious. A couple of weeks ago, on my drive to the grocery store, a new character interrupted my thoughts and has been demanding attention ever since. It seems he wants to be my November project: Bob's Memoir: 4000 years as a free demon.
It seems that 4,000 years ago, a drunk inept adept attempted to summon Beelzebub but slurred the word to Beetlebob. Then, just as Bob was apparating, the magi had the courtesy to die, scuffing out the confining circle into which Bob had been summoned. The newly created demon walked out of the circle a new man. Or demon. For 4,000 years of earth's history, he has romped through civilization as a mischievous, happy-go-lucky (mostly lucky) being. (Thanks to Doug for the "mostly lucky" comment.)
Bob's Memoir promises to be a little spooky, a little sexy, and a lot funny as he discovers the disadvantages of immortality and the different attitudes people of different ages have toward supernatural beings. Immortality would not be fun if he was just a charred ash. On the other hand, a new country means a whole lot of new women with different customs than where he last fled. Oh, boy!
I'm looking forward to a lot of fun in 2022!