I know it Needs Copy Editing

eBooks for the 21st-Centory Author needs a little copy editing, to be sure. I posted as-is because there were a few people who wanted a copy quickly. I expect that I’ll have a cleaner copy up by the middle of the week. I’ll call it version 1.1. By the way,… Continue reading

eBooks for the 21st-Century Author Released

I just uploaded the first version of my new eBook titled eBooks fo rthe 21st-Century Author. It is a tutorial intended for writers who want to make their backlist available in electronic form. The tutorial walks the reader through the creation of a PDF document, an ePub document, and a… Continue reading

New Story Available – Magnetic Monopoly

I’ve been preparing to start moving my short stories into the Kindle store, starting with the “How to…” series. For Kindle, I placed all three stories into one volume. That will also be available on my own web site soon. As part of Amazon’s agreement, I cannot sell anything available… Continue reading

More Progress

I’m positioning myself to open a Kindle account for my fiction. In process of that, I registered a new domain name to use in the publisher field. I now own www.entropy-central.net, which redirects over to www.ricknovy.com. (I also bougth www.entropy-central.info because it was under a dollar.  It redirects the same… Continue reading

eBook How-To Progress (and the Yotes)

My project of writing a how-to guide to create ebooks is at a milestone. I finished creating the content for PDF, ePub and mobi formats. Next, I need to research how to get stuff up on Amazon, which is something I planned to do anyway for my own inventory. I’ll… Continue reading

New Project – Helping Others Create eBooks.

Saturday evening, I wrote the first 1000 words of my new eBook titled eBooks for the 21st-Century Author.   I added another 1500 words today. This book will walk the reader through the creation of a cover image, a PDF version, and ePub version, and a .mobi version of  Lorem Ipsum… Continue reading

Cruciverbalists, I Haven’t Forgotten You

It’s been a few months since I have added a new crossword puzzle to the collection.  I’ll be posting one in the next week or so.  The puzzle is done, but all the ebook work I’ve been focusing on has created a huge in-box for me in terms of projects… Continue reading

ePub Success Building

The week-and-a-half long struggle to learn ePub format is paying off.  Yesterday, I not only created the ePub and mobi version of “How to Drive a Pinto (Bean),” but I also created all three versions of “How to Eat a Cobalt Bomb.” What is exciting about that is it took… Continue reading

ePub File Available

Please help yourself to my first ePub file available on my web site under Catalog-Free Stuff.  Or you can just follow this link. You will need to change the file extension from .zip to .epub  (download monitor security won’t allow .epub file extensions). I’m still in beta testing mode so… Continue reading

eBook Resources

While I am still in the middle of debugging how to create ebooks out of my published short fiction, I have made quite a bit of progress.  I thought I would share some of the resources that I’ve uncovered and get them into one place. In the long run, I’ll… Continue reading