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Category: Active Voice

AI talk – Le Salon Duval @ Kava Culture Key West

The first talk @ Le Salon Duval @ Kava Culture was great. Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first gathering. Lots of smart people in the room, with a great discussion afterwards, which is the whole point of it being a salon. It was given by Sean MacGuire (twitter: minitru) It…

No AI, thank you – Publishing Sidetrack Key – Epilogue

So I just added this to our copyright notice on the epub version:No AI tools were used to assist in writing this work.The use of this work to train any AI is forbidden. Because of this tweet right here: I’m surprised at my reaction. I’ve been up to my neck in technology forever. I make…

The great epub adventure. Publishing Sidetrack Key

Part 1 covered the title and Part 2 covered the print version of Sidetrack Key. I’ve saved the best for last, creating the epub/Kindle version. In general, if you have a well-formatted manuscript – which means chapter headings as sections, correct paragraph spacing, and consistent fonts, then creating an epub can be pretty simple. The…

Sidetrack Key – Part 2 -How to Publish the Print Version

Jessica produced a very nice book in Microsoft Word. If you’re going straight to epub, you can just upload it at Amazon KDP and they’ll do a lot of the work. We’ll cover that in the next part. For now I’ll summarize how we created a print-ready version of Sidetrack Key. We’re assuming the document…