{"id":4774,"date":"2011-04-13T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2011-04-13T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:30:52","slug":"from-the-ice-incarnate-is-now-available-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/from-the-ice-incarnate-is-now-available-from-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Ice Incarnate is now available from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My third indie published short story, “From the Ice Incarnate,” is now available for $.99 on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read it on the Kindle, of course, but if you don’t have one then Amazon\u00a0 has free plugins for just about every device imaginable.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t read any of my other stories yet, I would recommend starting with this one.\u00a0 It won first place in the 2009 Mayhew Short Story contest at BYU, and is probably one of the better pieces of my writing.\u00a0 It’s also taken from a scene in my novel Genesis Earth,<\/em> which is currently a quarter finalist for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.<\/p>\n

I’ve also reformatted both of my other stories, “Memoirs of a Snowflake<\/a>” and “Decision LZ1527<\/a>,” improving the covers and making them look more professional overall.\u00a0 I also redid the cover for “Decision LZ1527,” changing the font and enlarging the image to make it look crisper.<\/p>\n

I’ve already blogged pretty extensively about the epublishing process in the last post, but I’ll say something about it here.\u00a0 Putting stuff up on Amazon is not that hard, but making it look professional can be a little tricky.\u00a0 In the future, I think I’m going to use the process outlined below:<\/p>\n

Step One:<\/strong> Write the book in Open Office.\u00a0 Save manuscript as an open document text.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Step Two: <\/strong>Using Open Office, set the font to Times New Roman size 12, bold titles and chapter headings, replace underlining with italics, spacing to 1.5 lines, add in special characters for scene breaks (if needed), etc.\u00a0 Save as an html file.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Step Three: <\/strong>Using The Gimp, create a cover image and export as a 600×900 jpeg.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Step Four:<\/strong> Using a WYSIWYG html editor, adjust formatting as needed, add anchor tags for the table of contents (if needed), etc.\u00a0 Save as html.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Step Five:<\/strong> Using an ebook creator program such as Mobipocket, combine finalized html file with cover image and all other interior content.\u00a0 Edit metadata, create table of contents (if needed), etc.\u00a0 Export as .prc or epub.<\/p>\n

That’s basically the process I used for “From the Ice Incarnate,” except I uploaded the .doc file straight to Amazon and then downloaded their html conversion of it.\u00a0 Kind of an ad hoc way of doing things, but hey it worked.<\/p>\n

This will probably be my last short story for a while.\u00a0 My reason for putting them out was mostly to learn on them, and I have learned a TON.<\/p>\n

My next epublishing project will probably be a full length book, either one of my novels, or an ebook combining my blogs and journals from the summer of 2008, when I went on the BYU Jordan study abroad.\u00a0 I want to figure out how to do a table of contents and add interior images, and that seems like the best project to learn it on.\u00a0 Plus, I’ve always wanted to turn that material into a book.<\/p>\n

That probably won’t come out for a while, though.\u00a0 In the meantime, feel free to check out my other stories<\/a>!\u00a0 I hope you enjoy them; I appreciate everyone who reads my work, and do my best to write stories that are worth reading.\u00a0 And if\u00a0 you feel so inclined, post a review or blog about it.\u00a0 Every little bit helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My third indie published short story, “From the Ice Incarnate,” is now available for $.99 on Amazon.\u00a0 You can read it on the Kindle, of course, but if you don’t have one then Amazon\u00a0 has free plugins for just about every device imaginable. If you haven’t read any of my other stories yet, I would… Continue reading From the Ice Incarnate is now available from Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,170],"tags":[528,547,515,529,369],"class_list":["post-4774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","category-short-stories","tag-2011-amazon-breakthrough-novel-award","tag-ebook-formatting","tag-ebooks","tag-indie-publishing","tag-publication","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1f0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}